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    Creativity Should be the Answer, not Old habits

     

    With the explosion of new sounding talent in music that comes in from Kid Cudi to Passion Pit (as some would dub as Blogoshere Music) I still get upset when certain people say "I can't wait until this Fad Music leaves so that normal music come back." This made me realize that a good portion of this country hates creativity and wants stagnant repetition.

    Isn't the lack of creativity part of the problem that got us into this economy in the first place? A bunch of people (and I mean a good percentage of the population) were trying to make that quick money in swapping debt and loans in the financial market and now has fallen since it wasn't 100 percent guarentee. Now those same people (stock brokers, realtors, Corporate Shrills) are waiting for the jobs to be available to continue their same habits.

    Even in Rap today, I hear thugadocious rappers still claiming they are keeping their music "Real" with the Murder Murder, Kill Kill, Bitches Hoes lyrics and cheap beats for bucks. Hip-Hop started as a rebellion of what was the mainstream then. Then Hip-Hop started to evolve to other genres based on East Coast, West Coast, and Dirrty South.

    However how is it that when the business men got involved, they stop letting Hip-Hop evolve and focused and marketed the acts that rapped the murder murder kill kill, misogyny rhymes. Just like in the civil war era when Racist Whites (Note that I put "Racist" whites and not ALL white people) were being entertained by Black entertainers in the form of ministrel shows, we still continue to have people on the radio like Hurricane Cris rapping gibberish like "Ay Bay bay" that don't know that a "C" note is a musical Note.

    And yet rappers continue the argument that they are making people like themselves when in actually they are making music for people like this:

     

    It's this market that these Major labels are trying to sell because they have the more disposable money to spend on "Disposable Entertainment" such as Soulja Boy. This guy doesn't live anywhere near the hood as he only sees it through rap videos.

    So why are we still scared to think different? This video explains how our education system is not allowing creative thought:

     

    Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

     

     

    Onto the music:

    Modest Mouse - Autumn Beds

    5 O'Clock Shadowboxers - Weak Stomach

    lupe fiasco - shining down ft. matthew santos

    Super-mediocre Rap Groups

    So Slaughterhouse is a new rap crew that consist of Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, and Royce 5' 9." You got four pretty good rappers, but is to go so far to say a "Supergroup" is somewhat misleading. I don't understand how you get above average rappers to get any better combined with other above average rappers. Thats like if I were to take Carson Daily and Craig Ferguson To make a Super Late Night Show.

    Furthermore lets look at other Super-Mediocre Rap collabs:

     

    Ali & Gipp

     

    Do you remember Goodie Mob? How about the St. Lunatics? Well what if we combine Bigg Gip and Ali together from those groups? Do you even remember which artist comes from which camp?

    The Sothern collaboration that no one ask for their household names to create the super average group "Ali & Gipp," with the album selling a whopping 4,331 units.

     

    Harlem World Featuring Mase

    As you can tell from Mase's Very award winning and comical acting skills as an officer, this group screams as whats his name and whats her name rap those hard lyrics to a cheesy Just Blaze Production.

     

    Omarion and Bow Wow

    So we gather here the leading stars of Urban Dance/sports Youth movies and have them create an album that you might be think would be a compilation soundtrack to all the dance movies that came out in the past 10 years. Looking at the cover, it would look like if we going to fight over a starring role for another dance movie. But nope, they created music and the album didn't even go gold.

     

    What if we were to take this formula further in Movies? Take Crappy Future Sci-Fi plot, Blacks Vs. Asians, Romeo Vs. Julet, Marques Houston, Urban Dance moves and we have a cluster frak of crappy movie.

     

    Lesson: if your product sucks, don't cram other crap that is equal value.

    Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin

    U.N.I. - Land of The Kings

    Scratch - Too Late Ft. Damon Albarn And Talib Kweli