I bet Eminem doesn't even know how to register for a twitter account.
*shrugs*
labels gotta keep up with the times.
SO, they're leaking 3AM, the rumored song, tomorrow! That's the news. I'm excited as fuck.
You are an audience of art, not a consumer of goods.
EL-P's label sees you as a consumer of his goods. Welcome to life. You can give yourself a better title if you want.
Also, yes, I'm an audience of art. Why do I like art? Because art entertains me, provokes thought and emotion. Rap does that for me and it doesn't have to be on some preaching tip.
And that's the load of crap right there. Some people read books to escape - and you're reading magazines with lots of photoshopped pictures, So Fi.
Just drop the metaphors and your little figurative language, it's beyond corny and borderline pseudo-intellectual.
The music you prefer does nothing for me. I can't escape into an EL-P song because it's a black hole. Black holes aren't fun; they evoke no emotion but that of boredom.
I don't need it to tell me how bad the war in Iraq is - I would turn that shit off. But I do need it to be educating - and I don't mean the theory of relativity. I do need it to preach to me. It's a beautiful form of activism.
What do you need rap to preach to you? Give me examples.
I agree that it's a beautiful form of activism. But I'm not going to put the song on repeat if it's not nice to listen to, regardless of the message. I'm not bowing down to thought-provoking lyrics in a time where a guy like Rahim can make a tight beat and an amateur rapper can write a tight hook. I'm not cutting rappers slack for not making good songs.
And I don't want to come of as rap not having substance or that no rapper says something worth hearing. I hear worth-while lines/verses quite a bit but it's rarely anything mind-blowing or that I haven't witnessed or thought of. It's usually like "Oh yeah, word up man, that's how life is."