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Interestingly enough, while I agree... I disagree too... What I have noticed is that people blindly take his opinions as law... recently he and I went back and forth on here about Prince and his influences. While I definitely agreed live he wore his influences on his sleeve, it didn't start until the Purple Rain tour with his James Brown and background band countdown thing. Before that it was just Prince. This Motherfucker tried to tell me that Prince's recordings sounded like JB and Little Richard. Again, I disagreed, he didn't start doing this until 88 moving forward, before that, while I'm sure they were there, it was still strictly Prince. I was suprised at how people took his foolish rantings as law, me being a fan of music myself, I knew he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about even with all his so-called background information. Wasn't impressed. However, he has been apart of some of the best (note I did not say greatest) recordings of the nineties and the turn of the century but I'm also slightly convinced that it was all in a effort 'to be apart' of the hottest things going, D, E. Badhu, Bilal, Com, Slum, you name it. At the same time you have to respect that. The reality? Black music is a fucking shame right now, all we have is this bullshit of people using legendary techniques in performance (biting Prince's and James' DICK!!!) and recording (Oh Jimi, where are you when we REALLY need you) into their desired affect. They will redo some corny ass lyrics (see Bilal for that) and then call it that new shit... it's one part talent, two parts gimmick (see D'Angelo for that) and ultimately the light will come through. Do You Want More, Illadelphhalflife Volume 1 was that shit, no doubt, and during that time period they were the illest live act to catch. Now? It's all bs, they could use a facelift for real! What I have also noticed is to make up for their shortcomings or lack of talent Quest issues his propoganda posts to make them legendary, bugged out ish like "D is the new Prince" (laughing over that one man), or "Bilal is this or that" (I saw the Jay Leno performance, he needs to chill with the crack cause money can sing, and is ill, but he just seems like a damn clown)... as oppossed to just allowing us to feel the real. We know fake from real, and the realist thing poppin is E. Badhu's Momma's Gun, so the question becomes who's the real genius behind these projects, Quest or James Poyser. (poyser) Quest or JD (hmmm... Slum or the Roots, depends, recording wise, Slum every time, live? The Roots hands down, but just like all great bands their peak was 93-96... no doubt...) Peace.
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