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Today, contributing editor "PinkyRing" gives you his theory on why Common and Kanye are giving you some of thier weirdest music ever. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more ramblings from all of us.
Today, contributing editor "PinkyRing" gives you his theory on why Common and Kanye are giving you some of thier weirdest music ever. Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more ramblings from all of us.
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The 3K Effect:
The Love Below...let it sink in. One incredible half of an Outkast joint, 20 Andre3000 tracks of nutty ass singin’ and other-worldly soundscapes channeling Prince and one maybe freestyle rap at the end like, a cherry on top (or bottom cause it’s at the end).
The Love Below...let it sink in. One incredible half of an Outkast joint, 20 Andre3000 tracks of nutty ass singin’ and other-worldly soundscapes channeling Prince and one maybe freestyle rap at the end like, a cherry on top (or bottom cause it’s at the end).
I wish every time I masturbated it sounded like this album. ‘Cause that’s what it is, a one man orgy. Hey look, my pants are down and my cock and balls are out, they sing so beautifully don’t you agree?! This album sounds like crisp $100 bills and not having to go to work in the morning and floating a different spacecraft every day and not worrying about whether or not you should buy gas or ramen noodles.
This negro is paid and his half of the album sounds like it. Even though there’s a lot of Prince going on he definitely created a masterpiece that won’t be truly appreciated until your kid’s kid’s kid’s takes Outkast Theory in college.
Anywho, this guy has done it the right way. Not that Outkast has been lazy with the innovation or ever been paint by numbers, so to speak, but he definitely pushed the envelope in terms of what folks think is a proper rap album. He SANG for 99.9% of the damn thing for pete’s sake and he didn’t sound like Roger Troutman a bit (and that’s another rant).
The point is (for everyone waiting for the punch line) that this guy made a great album for any fan of good music. It crosses genres and generations with its appeal and it has legs…I still listen to this CD without much skipping. This guy got his money and then said you know what I’m gonna make the CD I always wanted to make…and who could fault him for that.
When an artist gets to a point were they don’t have to try to appeal to the commercial, consumer mass market, they become free to really and truly express themselves and the result is a more honest artistic expression. There’s also some self serving weirdo music thrown in, but it’s worth it to get some good shit. And right now, Common and Kanye are pulling a Andre3000 circa “The Love Below”.
Let’s examine the formula of The 3k effect:
sales=money, money=freedom, talent + freedom usually equals something grand.
Shit, Stevie Wonder had an incredible deal with Motown being able to write/produce and do whatever the fuck he wanted and that combo spawned some incredible music. Kanye and Common have sold crazy records over the last few years and have put out some near classic to bonafide classic singles, songs, albums, etc.. Now we got Kanye, one of the illest hip hop producers of this millennium rocking no shape up, a gnarly beard and a heather grey Urkel suit on “808’s and Heartbreak” and Common back on that super weird “Electric Circus” shit with “Universal Mind Control”.
I don’t particularly care for either offering, but you gotta respect them even doing something so totally opposite of the music that got them paid. Kanye = Cake earner, nuff said. Common is a movie star in the making and he’s in ads for everything. Again, Cake earner. So the two of them said fuck it and made albums for themselves. They could do this 2 more times apiece before sales suffer, but by then it won’t even matter.
If Kanye was a brand new artist dropping 808, he’d have to grow 2 more dicks to support all his riders. I even find myself maybe not accepting it because it’s him and I want some more shit from the “college” canon, but then I listen to it and I’m like: I aint hatin’ it aint that good.
But fuck me… I’m just glad they did it, and I hope some more dudes that don’t need the money follow suit.
Exeunt,
Pinky Ring (Contributing Editor)
This negro is paid and his half of the album sounds like it. Even though there’s a lot of Prince going on he definitely created a masterpiece that won’t be truly appreciated until your kid’s kid’s kid’s takes Outkast Theory in college.
Anywho, this guy has done it the right way. Not that Outkast has been lazy with the innovation or ever been paint by numbers, so to speak, but he definitely pushed the envelope in terms of what folks think is a proper rap album. He SANG for 99.9% of the damn thing for pete’s sake and he didn’t sound like Roger Troutman a bit (and that’s another rant).
The point is (for everyone waiting for the punch line) that this guy made a great album for any fan of good music. It crosses genres and generations with its appeal and it has legs…I still listen to this CD without much skipping. This guy got his money and then said you know what I’m gonna make the CD I always wanted to make…and who could fault him for that.
When an artist gets to a point were they don’t have to try to appeal to the commercial, consumer mass market, they become free to really and truly express themselves and the result is a more honest artistic expression. There’s also some self serving weirdo music thrown in, but it’s worth it to get some good shit. And right now, Common and Kanye are pulling a Andre3000 circa “The Love Below”.
Let’s examine the formula of The 3k effect:
sales=money, money=freedom, talent + freedom usually equals something grand.
Shit, Stevie Wonder had an incredible deal with Motown being able to write/produce and do whatever the fuck he wanted and that combo spawned some incredible music. Kanye and Common have sold crazy records over the last few years and have put out some near classic to bonafide classic singles, songs, albums, etc.. Now we got Kanye, one of the illest hip hop producers of this millennium rocking no shape up, a gnarly beard and a heather grey Urkel suit on “808’s and Heartbreak” and Common back on that super weird “Electric Circus” shit with “Universal Mind Control”.
I don’t particularly care for either offering, but you gotta respect them even doing something so totally opposite of the music that got them paid. Kanye = Cake earner, nuff said. Common is a movie star in the making and he’s in ads for everything. Again, Cake earner. So the two of them said fuck it and made albums for themselves. They could do this 2 more times apiece before sales suffer, but by then it won’t even matter.
If Kanye was a brand new artist dropping 808, he’d have to grow 2 more dicks to support all his riders. I even find myself maybe not accepting it because it’s him and I want some more shit from the “college” canon, but then I listen to it and I’m like: I aint hatin’ it aint that good.
But fuck me… I’m just glad they did it, and I hope some more dudes that don’t need the money follow suit.
Exeunt,
Pinky Ring (Contributing Editor)
I don't know if I necessarily agree with all this. In Kanye's case, I think that the death of his mom, particularly how she died (death by materialism) and his break up shaped the album more than anything else. I think The Love Below was a product of stifled creativity and 808s & Heartbreak is a product of Kanye losing two women who were very important to him.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think that Universal Mind Control isn't on that level either. It's some weird futuristic/throwback amalgamation that sounds just like a collaboration between the Neptunes and Common should sound like.
I think that prime examples of what you call the "3K Effect" can be witnessed by peeping any of the three shelved sophomore albums that Q-Tip recorded, particularly Kamaal the Abstract which actually preceded The Love Below by a couple years.