And I seem to vaguely recall there being a white kid in the mix who enjoyed go-karts and frat parties. ![]() Drake tries to woo a recession-ravaged American public with his woe-is-me plight of being good-looking, intelligent, and rich. traded in Lil Boosie for the washed-up warblings of the lead singer of Weezer. Cudi squandered the potential of his early mixtapes to collaborate with Ratatat on the rap version of Ummagumma, while deluding himself into thinking he’d made Dark Side. When he isn’t trying to best Dre at accidental homophobia, Wale floats rudderless –working with Gaga one week and Waka Flocka the next. However, the next generation’s combination of conformity, self-seriousness, and softness, has made it exceedingly difficult to champion them. Maybe the one-two punch of illegal downloading and the Clear Channel radio stranglehold made progress or reclamation impossible. ![]() ![]() While the King of Louis luggage’s victory may have opened the floodgates for rappers to sport jeans tighter than mayonnaise jars and allow for Jay-Z and Lil Wayne to get away with wearing $1,000 tortoise-shell spectacles, it did little to improve the state of major label rap. ![]() ” Admittedly, I rooted for Graduation over Curtis, myopically confident that Kanye’s win would usher in an era of creativity and comedy that had been lacking since the heyday of the Native Tongues. The platitude proclaims “be careful what you wish for.
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