Why Albums Used To Matter

Albums used to matter because it was about artistry. About music. Now its about how quickly you can record a verse, and trying to appeal to radio. Rappers are actually bragging about doing songs in 10min. Imagine Picasso sitting around like, "Yo dog, I painted this shit in 10min." LOL. It's ridiculous. My favorite rapper's name is Anthony J. Shears. He's what Hova used to be. Anthony J. Shears - The Growth: My ENDtroduction comes out Nov. 6th. The next big thing in hip hop people! WORD UP! HONEST MUSIC, and REAL ARTISTRY IS MAKING A COME BACK. With Kanye and Common both debuting at #1, Khaled you were wrong. We're talking over!

I hear ya, man. The funny thing about it is that mentality perpetuates the idea of disposable music that these same so-called artists fear, because it runs counter to their bottom line. If a song doesn't represent your blood, sweat, and tears, and is just a spontaneous regurgitation of previously devoured concepts, spit, swallowed, and re-spit like some type of chud, how can you expect the consumer to value it highly, such that they *shouldn't* think that they're entitled to it for free? By fostering the notion that there's no difference between the freestyle and the song, rappers who espouse this idea tell fans, who expect a little bit for nothing, that EVERYTHING, in terms of artistic effort, is a "little thing," and thus, not worth the paper it's printed on...if it's printed at all.

I for one feel like a dinosaur -- someone who, despite having an iPod, traffics in albums, rather than mere songs. The album is a whole greater than the sum of its parts, more than a mixtape, just like a movie is more than a collection of scenes. Comparing albums of today to those of yesterday is like comparing the disjointed scenes of the "Super 4-hour" Porn tapes to the pornography of the 70's and 80's, which tried to employ acting and plotlines, and aspired to be "art." Just as the notion of the least common denominator dissolved the distinction between the essentialism of the audience, and the imagination of the artist, so too has hip-hop suffered the same fate. We're in the days of "Amateur Hour," where everyone calls themselves artists, because the art has been taken over by hacks, who do what we all can do. There's no honor in that, and as such, the profession of "artist" is less honorable. It's sad, really...

I cain't believe you got the mahavishnu orchestra up there!

You disrepected the shit out me.

Now lemme go back and see what you said.

-Black People

And then you continued to disrespect me by adding the "Are you ready" Beatnuts classic at the outro.

Just for that,

That's why I got both volumes of the Street Level instrumental album.

And the Intoxicated Demons jawn. Instrumental.

Now.

But yo, that's word em up on the buyin rekkids tip.

It's been put out there that I'm a vinyl junkie.

Word to Jared at the sound library.
A-1 rekkids.

My old head Kevin Donan out here.

(and corny ass Amoeba rekkids. the walmart of rekkid stores on sunset).

I'm on a roll now.

Peace to all my peeps and all my favourite rekkid stores.

(and peace to Prince & Jerome for spellin' it out in under the cherry moon: "wreka stow")

But yo,

Chino at Funk o mart on market street in philly.
where I bought my first rekkid.

supa lover cee and casanova rud "get's no deeper remix" with the chubb rock treat em right bassline. produced by paul c. who used the drums for give the drummer some.

who else?

ohhhhh shit! my man joey blanco from Armand's rekkids who really understood my
pete rockaholocism and for puttin me down with the Soul Jazz comps namely 200% dynamite.

er'rybody's fave girl stef tataz at cue. I 'ont think she there no more.

but cue rekkids even when it was footworks.

and rue's rekkids across the street and my man who used to always have long religious debates with me. I'm painted as a science guy and he's the christ dude. miss them days.

oh yeah, the lil new jack jawn up on 40th street by Upenn where I met my oldhead black the 9th man
what's the name of that rekkid store? Oh! The Marvelous.

who else?

The record collector out here on Melrose.

And the lil jawn over there Olympic.

rhino rekkids before amoeba put them outta business.

aarons rekkids before amoeba put them outta business.

oh yeah and the dirty rock and roll rekkid/book store on south street around the corner from the gap.

Support the vinyl (re)revolution.

Last rekkids bought?

Saturday I was in Amoeba and I bought Frankie Beverly and Maze.

Two of them.

the one with "when I'm alone" on it and the live album.

the live album aint that rockin.

amoeba ain't got no listenin stations

OHHHH I almost forgot.

the turntable lab over on fairfax. got that east coast feel. and they got listenin stations if you leave your license for a catridge.

what else I get, Oh yeah best of sam and dave.

and in the mail I got get up, get down get funky get loose from teddy pendegrass that I won off ebay.

but yo, I got schooled because I ain't know on the other side is the jawn YOU GOT YOU GOT YOU GOT WHAT I NEED!

and I got the original last night a dj saved my life on the brown, beckett rekkids/sound of new york label.

now!

Stop playin wit' me.

I'm tryna tell ya I'm old school! I'm tryna tell ya.

this is the first thing i read today that sparked me.

good looking out, smooth.

-Blilzack Pilzeople

Peace to dusty groove in chicago, finyl vinyl in ny
both fat beats the one here and the one in the vill.

See it was disrespectful for you to throw that mahavishnu jawn up there cuz I got one of those.

My bollywood east indian section is sick.

I'm gonna hafta buy a camera and start taking pics.

(but technically that album ain't that bangin. unless I slept on something.)

the jai santoshi ma soundtrack is what you've really been lookin for your whole life.

you just ain't know it yet.

-Black People

Jay-Z >>>>Radiohead. Can't cosign J Smooth on this.

ignore my above post. i commented before listening to the piece by J Smooth. I though he was going sowewhere else with this. sorry. but yeah, its great for the consumer. i am not complaining. you can listen to these albums and rate them before u make the mistake of buying an album you end up not liking. good video post Jsmooth.

ignore my above post. i commented before listening to the piece by J Smooth. I though he was going sowewhere else with this. sorry. but yeah, its great for the consumer. i am not complaining. you can listen to these albums and rate them before u make the mistake of buying an album you end up not liking. good video post Jsmooth.

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