Any fan of blaxploitation flicks from the seventies is going to love the soundtrack and score to 2009’s blaxploitation satire Black Dynamite. Heck, any fan of music should enjoy these albums. The music is authentic and convincing. You’ll swear you’ve heard these sounds somewhere before.
I was listening to T.I’s Paper Trail album. Definitely a hot album but I hadn’t realized just how many Haters that man has after him. Man, it must be tough to constantly have to shake the Haters off as much as he does. Now that I think of it, all that Hating is probably a lot tougher on the Haters themselves, especially considering all the bad press they get. And for what? Considering that most of your successful rappers alive today owe the bulk of that success to the haters who inspired them to reach for the stars, in spite of them; why can’t Haters get the recognition they deserve? Where did all the love go for the Haters who made you who you are?!?! I’d say a pretty solid case could be made that Haters are probably the most important and under represented people in Hip hop today. We need a union.
The Urban dictionary defines a hater as “1. A person that simply cannot be happy for another person’s success. So rather than be happy, they make a point of exposing a flaw in that person.’ Historically, being hated on is the best thing that could have happened to some folks. Where would our greatest rappers of the day be without haters? From Jay-Z to Maino, the list goes on.
Im sure my sentiments on the matter of Michael Jackson’s passing echo those of many other fans of his music, so I won’t bore you with my own revisionist history of how great Michael Jackson was. Instead, I’d like to focus on what MJ’s death means for the record industry. Does Michael Jackson’s death portend the death of the record industry? Continue Reading
