whiskeyfightpit

The rap CD that I do an intro on is now available in stores. People seem to enjoy it. Mainly, it flies over their heads. Not so much that they are stupid, but they're not expecting it on a rap CD. I just assume people are smart and aware of what's going on around them. Basically, I use cleverly arranged vulgarities to lampoon commercial rap and the radio DJs who keep dragging this dead horse around like a trophy. I've always expected MORE out of hip-hop. When I was young it seemed like the last frontier. Above-ground rock/pop/blues/jazz just seemed like a waste of time. Rap was kinda like Peter Pan. The last water-balloon filled with holy water in the constant fight against commercial vampires. The rappers I grew up listening to were all careerists. I didn't want another stone statue to go up to salute and pray to. I wanted some revolution. Public Enemy basically disappeared in the early 90s and the gangsta rappers were taking film roles. KRS-One was fallin off a little with them reggae excursions. Tupac and Biggie killed all of those dreams. Some champagne and yacht motherfuckers. Wu-Tang was only droppin albums every three-four years as a unit. Method Man was singing duets with Mary J. Blige. That practically broke my heart. I believed in those dudes. So I get more ANGRY and I am less patient with hip-hop artists who dabble in chicanery and soda-pop commercials. The MC was always the lone voice in the universe, screaming at a wall. They were less rules for an MC. You were only limited by your vocabulary. Not like the cookie-cutter political hardcore bands. MCs are supposed to rally people together and push the art forward as well as the society they are being nourished in. So when you see Jurassic 5 jumping around and wasting their talents for sugar water, you get fired up. I'd rather shovel coal then sell some damn sugar water. I'd rather clean up dogshit than be a spokesman for burgers n' fires. I should just come to the conclusion that everyone will let you down sooner or later. Humans are just different degrees of bad and that's about it.

Everything is black and white with me. You're either good or bad. Take for instance NAS. Very gifted writer and mouthpiece. Always talking the populist bullshit about RAISING UP and BEING POSITIVE and LEARNING. Then the motherfuckers is laying down his talents for hacks like P.Diddle, Jon B, and a few more that escape my mind at the moment. I'm sorry but a man can't have both sides of the coin. You are either Barbara Streisand or Noam Chomsky. No fucking middle ground.

Same thing applies to my philosophy on war. I never want to hear or see a war in my lifetime. I'll go so far as to say I never want to raise my hand against another human being. But, If there is some type of battle or war...I believe in complete victory. You take everything you got and destroy every living thing in the borders of your enemy. None of this gentlemans war or following war treaties. You are either a killer or you're not. Plain and simple. This war in Iraq should never have happened. We shouldn't be colonizing anything ever again. We've already eliminated races of Native Americans and god knows what else. But, since war was declared, against the majority's wishes, we need to destroy every living thing in that country. Once you take that leap and damn whatever soul you have left...you had better make it count. Any survivors are just going to get stronger once the dust settles. Leave nothing in that country but dust and sand-blasted bone. Women, Children, Men, Goats, Clerics, Lepors, infrastructure....everything. Wipe it all away. Nuclear holocaust. A board with a nail in it. Whatever gets the job done. This Geneva convention dilly-dallying is for the birds. Yeah, I'm going into a knife-fight with one hand tied behind my back.

I enjoy the fact that many of the terrorist sects think that Americans are just wailing around babylon with potato chips and porn. I don't think they understand the damage movies and video games have done to the youth over here. Many of us, including me, just don't have any respect for human life. It's pretty cheap. And I believe they underestimate how far we are willing to go to protect our little suburban sanctuaries and our empty, capitalist gadgets. Granted, our military-industrial complex/ intelligence communities are repressing their populations and I understand that anger. I'm just waiting for them to really do something about it. Perhaps they didn't read enough about Vietnam. Sure, it seems like we lost but we destroyed that place for generations. Keep fucking around and blowing up embacies. Keep making little home movies with you AKs and the various mountain goats flanking your righteous ass. Don't fuck around with the soul-less Babylonians. We just won't think twice about pissing radiation all over the promised land. The middle east will become the Middle Sea. Sounds great to me. It's like hearing that the Orkin Man finally removed that awful wasps nest from your back yard.

*swoon*



soundtrack of the day
New Pornographers "Electric Version"