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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

The Red Coats Are Coming!

I was originally going to drop a post on how today is the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death but I thought against it because you already know how I feel about celebrating the life and times of somebody on the date of their death. Besides, another member of this ragtag bunch dropped some deep knowledge yesterday, so there wouldn’t have been a need for me to do so anyways.

So as I got home from the primary hustle [1] – my 8-to-7, that is – I go through the same routine I usually do to decompress: sift through the thousands of (il)legally-lifted songs on my iTunes until I’ve found something that holds my attention. I eventually stumbled upon an old Ms. Dynamite song I used to play while I was in college.

As a side note, if anybody has a copy of A Little Deeper and would like to share it with me, I’d be glad to make their day by not ripping into their culture for a week.
 
Anyways, I bring this up because as of late I’ve found myself playing more international sounds than the usual East Coast boom bap. Hell, I’ve even been playing more West Coast music than the usual East Coast boom bap, and everybody knows how much I don’t really like any West Coast music. Chance this due to a variety of reasons, but I’ve found myself listening to everything from Estelle and Kardinal Offishall more often than not.

Then again I spent a good week listening to nothing but the Dip Set playlist in my iPod, so needless to say my mood has ping-ponged from misogynistic to pensive to all over the place as of late.

Maybe I’m looking to deep into things, but perhaps this is yet another sign of American music becoming more flaccid than their international counterparts. With everybody from Polow Da Don getting exposed to Marsha from Floetry raping old Dr. Dre beats, it feels like I’m not the only person who’s not caring too much about stateside music nowadays. Is that to say that international music is inherently better due to their mishmash of sounds, or that they’re simply doing American music better than Americans? I’d like to think not, but you know I’m close-minded like that.

But perhaps this weighs more on an economical level also. With the US dollar at such a low state I figure nobody’s able to afford the six-figure production talents anymore, and are forced to create shitty jingles in hopes for mediocre success on Soundscan. Meanwhile the countries whose monetary value is double that of America’s seems to churn out better music because apparently they are able to afford it. If anything this could be the start of some musical takeover, but then again I don’t really care to begin with.


[1] Primary until my gift of pissing people off can become lucrative, of course.

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