Even though I have always liked hip hop I usually tend to stay away from the genre's cd:s nowadays. It is very uncommon that I hear a hip hop cd that is great all the way through. They often have too many tracks on them or simply not enough good tracks, IMO.
But today I actually bought the first hip hop cd in a long time. I bought the really cool cd The Ownerz with Gangstarr who is kind of veterans by now, I guess.
I don't know if anyone here has heard this cd, but I like it a lot. It has great lyrics, something that I miss in a lot of contemporary hip hop. It takes more than a decent flow and punk ass attitude to catch my attention. I can like a song and listen to it a hundred times just to realize that I don't have an idea what the lyrics are about. But just as with Bob Dylan I actually find myself listening to the lyrics. It is very well written and about other stuff than just bitches and bling bling. And the music/production is fantastic. It's just the way I like it with simple but innovative and extremely funky beats and really cool basslines and other interesting samples and sounds. And a lot of excellent scratching too! It's oldschool and new at the same time.... Check it out, openminded people!!!
But today I actually bought the first hip hop cd in a long time. I bought the really cool cd The Ownerz with Gangstarr who is kind of veterans by now, I guess.
I don't know if anyone here has heard this cd, but I like it a lot. It has great lyrics, something that I miss in a lot of contemporary hip hop. It takes more than a decent flow and punk ass attitude to catch my attention. I can like a song and listen to it a hundred times just to realize that I don't have an idea what the lyrics are about. But just as with Bob Dylan I actually find myself listening to the lyrics. It is very well written and about other stuff than just bitches and bling bling. And the music/production is fantastic. It's just the way I like it with simple but innovative and extremely funky beats and really cool basslines and other interesting samples and sounds. And a lot of excellent scratching too! It's oldschool and new at the same time.... Check it out, openminded people!!!
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.