“When I ask him if he’s an addict, he says, 'I'm a very successful addict. And a very smart one. And a very charismatic one. And one that just won four Grammys, and one that sold a million records in a week. One that still appears on everybody's songs, one that still sounds better than any rapper rapping. One that has four kids and is the greatest father ever to the kids.' He laughs. 'What am I addicted to, being great?'"-Weezy F. Baby
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What did he swallow? His neck is the same size as his head. His Behind the Music was kind of funny...not sure what I was watching it.
You should watch his Katie Couric interview. It's one of the most ridiculous interviews I've heard in forever. From the beginning when she comments on his diamond teeth, "I do what I want to do," Barack Obama saying his name, they go bowling, to the end where he sits at the CBS Nightly News desk...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyI26E5agM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM2VAbYgJPQ
He loves to work, he's crazy, addicted, and he's our age. Prolific artist.
He's like a mad genius of rap. I heard this great NPR record review of one of his mix tapes once, and the guy was talking about how Weezy was rhyming about aliens and space ships and getting stoned and how somehow it all seemed to work.
Weezy takes everything about hip hop, the bragadociousness, the machoism, the gawdy behavior, creative word play, social message, filthy lyrics, biting satire, he takes all of it and throws it into the blender with the wildest metaphors one could imagine and it just comes out so Weezy. And he puts out so much material. And now he's done his 'experimental' record with this Rock album he did (guess he did too many Lolapalooza style fests, got too high on too many ideas), and he's going to jail, he's probably going to come out mad hungry and just eat the competition alive.
I did see that interview. It's unfortunate that the rock world seemingly pales in comparison to the rap and dj world.
Yeah, in Rap world you can look like Weezy or you can go for that Sinatra cool like Jay Z does. And in DJ world you can dress up like two robots and blast your tunes from a giant spaceship (ala Daft Punk). But in rock world you have to pretty much be fake cool to get any run. You have to go for the all black Nickelback look while SHOUTING ALL YOUR LYRICS IN A GRAVELY VOICE (dont forget the wallet on chain); or you have to go for the faux-emo of Fall Out Boy; or the new popular look of fake indie kid.
For some reason the hip hop music business model seems less broken than rock 'n rolls. Perhaps because of the "dance" aspect?
I think technology and culture has a lot to do with it. The rock n roll culture broke loose 50 years ago. The hip hop and DJ culture is a much more recent thing. Both of those genres depend on exploiting the most recent technology.
It's kind of like how jazz was there... then rock was there... etc. It's not to say those genres are obsolete or irrelevant.
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