BS's Law Of Attraction BS, Free King Of New York, Tyler Perry's Tongues, Michelle Got Over, And Miley Cyrus II

Big Sean Says He Doesn't Know Why People Don't Consider Him A Top Rapper

DJ September 7th: 

Kendrick Lamar “King Of New York” (Mixtape)

Tyler Perry gives $1M for TD Jakes youth center, prays in tongues, lays hands

Michelle Obama’s Under grad Thesis 

is flawed throughout

Justin Bieber polishes his rap rep, hanging and recording with hip-hop royalty

Don't Say I'm Preaching To The Choir (On Miley Cyrus)

Jazz lovers know this, and with Jazz, you can't get more upright, suit-and-tie. But - just as with religion - there's a real musical world, along side the made-up bullshit we're fed:

“The same kinds of dynamics still occur. The general public is unaware of artists of color who are punk, country, alternative, or any other label record companies use to identify them. To some, these artists appear as outsiders.”

And in the current situation, we are. 

Just as with religion, visions of Hell predominate. It doesn't matter they don't believe in Hell, it's the chain-yanking that's important, with blacks as the chain. C'mon, that's Madonna's entire career, and she's been rewarded handsomely for it, by the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen feminists.

Why shouldn't Miley Cyrus expect the same?

Another question is why didn't anybody expect Miley's shenanigans to begin with? Didn't Jay-Z turn her out on his last album - for civil rights and all that - while taking his work to the high-end galleries?

Miley believes in that. And, pro or con, so does everyone else.

 

They want to, somehow.

Here's a white female Rapper, showing some rhyming potential, but notice the uniform hand gestures - and the uniform itself? Her "homies"? It's all so tired. But there she is, talking about white privilege.

I keep waiting for her head to explode.

 Meanwhile - back in the real world - I told you about Glenn Reynolds missing Kendrick Lamar starting a tidal wave:

Oh, it's on. 

Big Sean's album "Hall of Fame" doesn't drop until August 27, but the rapper already got upstaged on his own track, "Control." The leaked song features contributing verses by Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica, but the spotlight is arguably on Lamar. 

Understandably so: Kendrick goes on full blast, crowning himself the "King of New York" (mind you, he hails from Compton) and name-checking several leaders in the game. In a sample lyric, Lamar attests, "I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you ..." 

The rapper cites celebrities all over the map -- everyone from Phil Jackson to Lindsay Lohan, famous Brits Paul McCartney and Sean Connery, and rappers including Wale, Pusha T, Mac Miller, Drake and Tyler the Creator. 

This competitive challenge hasn't gone unnoticed. Both unmentioned and dissed rappers are posting their responses to the track. Memes are popping up at the speed of light. Some unlikely stars are even throwing in their two cents.

But even those who are aware of the controversy are mostly missing the larger story and it's implications:

Lamar's breakout album, Good Kid/M.A.A.D. City, was about his efforts, as a Christian, to resist temptation - which, I think we can agree, ain't exactly Miley's concern. 

Now he's demanding everyone DO BETTER. A message most would doubt is even being discussed in Rap. Much less, taken seriously, or that it's happening organically, in it's own very Rap/Hip-Hop way, with no input from the outside.

It's like religion, very few want anyone else to know anything else, except for what they tell them. 

 Because that would mean they'd actually have to start talking about other kinds of ideas.

And - it's a fact - there's weirdoes wandering around out there,...

 

Reynolds' Rap Doesn't Keep Anything Fresh But Racism

A couple of days ago I wrote about my disgust for Glenn Reynolds' lame attempt at Rap commentary. What I didn't do - and feel kinda guilty about - is offer an alternative. What could, or should, Reynolds have been covering - as a conservative?

Well, remember a while back I told you about a great Rap album, by a Christian from Compton, Kendrick Lamar? Since then, not only has Good Kid/M.A.A.D. City sold a million copies (Capitalism!) but Kendrick did something else that's set the Rap world on fire - he did exactly what I would do and publicly challenged everybody else to raise their game:

Something happened around the three-minute mark of [Funkmaster Flex's] first airing of [Rapper Big Sean's] "Control," as Los Angeles' Lamar introduced himself,...The song began to feel alive, and midway through his verse, Lamar challenged just shy of a dozen of his rap peers (including the two on the song with him) by name: "I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you niggas / Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you niggas / They don't want to hear not one more noun or verb from you niggas." He didn't just rap this; he throttled the words out as if he meant it more than anything else he's ever said. It was a spellbinding invocation as much as it was a wake-up call to arms. 

Kendrick is that rare breed of rapper who simultaneously comes off as fan and student and practitioner,...That Lamar swims this deeply amongst pop culture flotsam lets listeners know: he's one of us. As one of us, he said what we've all been saying: rappers need to try harder.

Now think about that. A Rapper invokes competition, tells the others to be the best, that they've lost their way - American Values to the Nth degree - AND EVERYBODY AGREES! (When my time comes again I'm going to crush these fools.) I don't feel like analyzing Kendrick's lyrics right now, for why they were so powerful, but trust me:

Using just words (the music is forgettable) an extremely positive cultural earthquake occurred - literally - amongst the very people conservatives say they wish would adopt their (or another) outlook, and what is Reynolds doing? Spending his time stirring up race trouble, based on somebody's confused ramblings who, clearly, didn't even understand the topic.

Helpful? Inspiring? Anything? Nothing but damning.

But that's all I see Instapundit being capable of doing, with Rap, race, politics - you name it. The man has no clue where or what the news is. He's a Pied Piper of trouble, and nonsense, all given a sophisticated, supposedly-educated glow. As I said yesterday, he's an unstylish pimp, drug dealer, or gangster, given respectability for something beyond my comprehension because - after watching him blow election coverage after election coverage, amongst other things - I don't understand the attraction.

Trust him to analyze the news? Please. He fancied himself once owning a record label, which he never shuts up about despite failing, but can't even accurately interpret music (His brother's band is so weak I wonder how they have the strength to walk on stage,...) He openly disses the most popular art form in the entire world - and it's practitioners - who he was never onboard with because he's A) white and arrogant B) white and in opposition to what he doesn't understand, and C) white and clueless.

That just don't cut it anymore.

And I'm the only conservative commentator that'll say so:

 

Up your game, Glenn,...