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Blogs on 01 17th, 2010 |
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Calling for the troubled artist!
Rap-culture has been in praise of the individual who adapts the most to structures, for individual gain. Success is measured not in the sustainability of the artist’s idea, but how the artist has sustained himself within the constraints of ruling ideas. It is blatantly reported by the successful themselves.
“Truthfully, I wanna rhyme, like, common sense / but I did three mills, I ain’t been trying to rhyme like Common since” – Jay-Z
The credibility in these lines lays in its acknowledging of common sense as an alternative to our ruling structures. Its mere confession...