Wednesday Jan 30, 2008

Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz- Roll Call

So it's pretty hard for me to classify music as bad because I am very open to listening to new things and generally approach all new music with an open-mind. So yet again I head back to the iTunes library (and I swear I find something I didn't know I have everytime I search through it) and I stumbled across this song by Lil Jon; I then proceed to listen to it and almost vomit on my computer immediately. How can someone get paid so much money to "sing" (There's no way in hell anyone can classify this as singing) but I digress. So I don't understand how these people make all these millions of dollars for standing around and laying down music (which I'm sure was made by someone else, but you know more about that than I) and then to douse it in F Bombs and 'Ya'll hoes can't fvck wit my niggas' just boggles my mind. How can these people be considered 'popular' and how do people actually listen to this music? I guess my question should be, do they even listen to it? Maybe it isn't popular like I think but I do know Lil Jon has put out a few other songs that were extremely popular, but not to me of course. The lyrics are horrendus, and I admit I do weigh the music I listen to about 70/30 lyrics to beat and tonality. I would rather listen to someone lay down extremely talented lyrics and hooks over some dry and redundant music than listen to a good beat that's filled with horrible words, unless of course 'i'm gettin crunk in da club.' (/sarcasm) Anyways, I just think there is more to music than my niggas, your niggas, fvck the police, and so on and so forth. If you call this talent than I should definitely get into the business because all I can see is dollar signs. That's about all I can think of for now...Let's recap, horrible lyrics layered with a pretty good beat (I have a nice 2.1 system that definitely shakes the walls, so that's probably the only reason I like the beat because I can annoy my roommates when they piss me off) but beyond that there is no reason in the world I would sit down and listen to something like this. So going back to my 70/30 scale; I give the lyrics a 0 and the beat a 6 or 7, but in the end that's only like a 20% or something. Signing off....

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