ok listened to them and all i gotta say is...
...thank fuck for lil jon and the ying yang twins
I'm sure some hiphop artists do care about the 'cultural' relevence of their music as it relates to the ghetto but wheres your proof to say clipse and pharrell do...
...their shit doesn't exactly uplift me or make me want to rush out and buy it or try/sell coke
no ones saying the neptunes aren't musically well versed. I'm just saying pharrell aint even half that neither is the clipse and if anything it shows what a crap year for hiphop 06 was...
...I reckon theres prolly an 80's riff hiding in every pharell tune ever and it's that associative familiarity people resonate with
if nas says hiphop is dead, his album sux arse to prove it and so does pharells, while lupe fiasco and clipse are lauded as the best things this year while jigga has to resort to beef and rehashing then...
...long live hiphop it was great while it lasted
RIP
...my last objection is to your elitist superior than thou attitude to music. Like if i don't like it its because i don't understand it or haven't been taught how to like it by some frustrated academic
you ever heard the saying those that do, do and those that can't teach or how about those that say don't know and those that know don't say...nahm sayin ???
The Neptunes care about the cultural relevance of the album, not to mention its sonic freshness and signficance within hip-hop and even more broadly pop--that is their thing. Contriving great pop events, and songcraft in general.
^^^ their views or yours ???
Why not take SFJ's article to the hood and get all up in some coke dealers grille for some real down home slice of the pie feedback and see where that'll get ya ???
you think they give a shit either ???