Gas is like Vegetables (Part Two)

People got arrested so lets raise oil prices!

God I just want to beat the shit out of those people in the picture celebrating a higher cost of a barrel of oil. Always profit above consumers needs. Way to go! Rape it to the grave.

Gas is like Vegetables

The unnecessary rise in gas prices recently has become as absurd as the reasoning behind higher pricing of vegetables. If it rains then there is flooding and the prices go up. If it doesn't rain then there is not enough so prices go up. With gas it's as dumb, just not outwardly expressed in logic. It's always some stupid reasoning like demand and if its not demand then its the weather. If its not the weather, its another reason like output and if its not enough output its too much output. If its not too little output and its not too much output then its transportation. If its not transportation then its global standardization of pricing. If its not that then its the companies themselves jacking the prices up and pocketing the profit of over 10 billion dollars in three months. Then you cant say anything about it or regulate it because then it would be fascism or dictatorship and since we are a free country we allow corporations to make a profit at whatever the cost. So F-ing stupid and yet we rely so much on our transportation that we will never give up gas so we've voluntarily given our balls to the hands that feed us and crying about it at the same time. How awesome is that!!!? At least we aren't paying like $8.50 for a gallon of gas like in London.

Whats in a name?

Broward County is considering giving away all of their naming rights to all of their Buildings and Parks as a way to side step raising property taxes. So that means that trees will probably be next. This tree is brought to you by Pepsi...Literally! So why does revenue need to be raised again for this city when their own senator says they don't have a revenue problem but a spending problem

Stupid!

Rap and Hip Hop Lyrics under fire (again)

Admittingly I listen to talk radio on the AM side because the FM side in all of its ad ridden hoopla really fails to intrigue and engage my mind. Of course AM radio is definitely not better at providing less advertising but it does contain more substance and interactivity. So recently I've been being hammered by peoples opinions regarding free speech in music, most notably Rap Music and Hip Hop. Personally I can't stand Rap music from a constructionist standpoint as the beats are just plain boring and over produced, a evident virus showing that the Rap industry is just imitating itself because imitation sells so Rap is imitation.

I heard an artist the other day by the name of Cameron (Probably spelled wrong...maybe its Kameron or Cam'ron..whatever...goes to show you that I don't really care) who is one of the top sellers of Gangstar Rap or Gangster Rap...whatever. This "artist" was on TV talking about why he wont come out against artists who rap negativity in the scene regarding the slogan "Don't be a Snitch" . The term "Don't be a Snitch" refers to how inner city kids and the inner city community should not talk to police when there is an event within their neighborhood such as a shooting or a rape or homicide with witnesses. He went on to say that he would rather move than report a serial killer living next door to his own house. He would also rather not tell if he was a witness to a murder of someone he knows even his own family members. His reasoning was first that he is the one who stands up on stage in front of big thug looking brothers with dreads and gold chains mouthing his lyrics and that it would be bad for his music sales if he all of a sudden came out positive.

Proving well and again that Rap music is not about application of talent but imitating what is already being pitched to inner city kids as art.

Hip Hop is actually in a separate category meaning that artists like Mos Def, KRS One, Peanut Butter Wolf and even the Talib Kweli's of the world CHOOSE not to include expletive laden lyrics throughout their tracks as a unifying theme in making their music more mailable to a wider range of listeners. While expletives should be allowed to make a point and as a part of free speech, including repetitive misogynistic expletives do not do anything to progress the genre of Rap Music further as a cultural reference to greatness. Hip Hop on the other hand, being separate from Rap toothed Rapping is more about application. True application of talent and while I may not enjoy Hip Hop music anymore, I do respect the application.

I was talking with Craque the other day about why Rap Music is still popular when it should be known by now that it severely lacks intelligence and that you would think "artists" would be more inclined to attempt to make more progress within the genre rather than just talk shit on everything and everybody and how they would kill him or her or them or us...whatever. Craque said that I'm seeing how artists are just imitating each other because imitation is what sells and not necessarily innovation. I totally agree with this perspective and yet I fail to understand why it isn't more widespread of a perspective.

On one hand Ive discovered so much music on my own that I don't need radio to tell me what is popular especially when I hear that the radio is constantly supporting payola which tells me the airtime is totally manipulated by Labels and Record Companies and no one will say anything about it because it only means less sales. The recent fine radio stations were hit with is doing little again to stem that type of activity so the fall back will always be whatever sells and not the collective means to make something more of the listeners musical experience.

Hip Hop artists are not like Rap artists. However both genres are suffering as shown by the flood of entries into the film business and the lack of application to their music styles afraid that any change in their current style means less sales or less respect. Its no longer about doing your own thing, its now about doing what everybody buys. Its not just about music for most Rap and Hip Hop artists anymore. Now we are supposed to go to the movies and be intrigued by the rappers ability to act and then go buy his/her album which tells the complete opposite tale of what character they were playing in a movie. So being a role model is fiction because role models don't sell but killing and raping and smacking and crap talking and misogyny and the willingness to lie to achieve sales and back stabbing, segregation, not calling out your music labels payola involvement and writing tracks that all sound the same is.

Of course I have a bias viewpoint of Rap. I'm not into the scene and I won't listen to it. I lean towards Hip Hop because that is where I saw the progression but electronic music is totally where its at. Electronic music you have freedom of application and when you don't have a label you aren't entitled to play by the rules of the label which is to make marketable music. I personally think the whole thing stinks of good ol' American bastardization of whatever someone else does musically and as long as someone else did it first and it works...lets keep repeating it into the ground until to engulfs itself which is what Rap Music is currently doing.....dying. Same with the movie Industry so please enjoy all the 3'quels and sequels this summer and remember a day when an original idea was what rose above all. Dont forget to buy the soundtrack to the movie that has nothing to do with the actual movie but rather whoever the labels are trying to sell you.

Damn the Media

Damn the media for its glorification of murder. Damn the networks for their orgy of segregating out this killer with sensationalism and airtime.

Craque on iTunes

It's difficult enough for an artist to gain exposure in an industry already run by friends of friends. The most recent tool that can free an artist from this evil grasp is already mostly well known as Tunecore. Craque is one of the first artists that I personally know of that has used this service and now has his tracks up in iTunes, bypassing labels and the uncontrollable downward spiral the industry is in, making his brand of electronic music now instantly available on yet another medium. Make sure you check out Craque on iTunes soon!

Electric Continental Soldier

Whilst walking down the alley last night to my vehicle, I had yet another experience that adds to my crass generalization of my own generation. This was my thought; You know, its sad when the conversation you hear when walking home past guys your own age is about who has who's porn video that they were in.

Mixing Shpongle with Joe Rogan's explanation of a DMT experience is weird but interesting.

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