Quote: (01-27-2014 02:57 AM)Slade Wilson Wrote:
Quote: (01-27-2014 02:55 AM)Courage Reborn Wrote:
Let's see. Fat ladies singing, a big gay wedding, skeletal Madonna shrieking, Metallica performing with a concert pianist...
This was just a parody show, right?
It was horrible. Kendrick Lamar didn't win anything, yet Macklemore gets a bunch of awards? ridiculous.
A kid with no skin in the game, who raps about the petty nature of mainstream Hip Hop's obsession with brand names, and how it's wrong that mainstream Hip Hop is 'homophobic', and he's a WHITE SUBURBAN KID FROM SEATTLE!?
It's rap for white, left-leaning social-justice types who 'don't normally like rap'...if he had decent flows (instead of this grade-school playground level lyricism), or didn't have tracks where he hates himself because he's being forced to repress his gayness because you can't be gay and also be a hip hop artist, I could respect it, but...no.
Wanna do socially conscious rap? Here's how you do it properly:
I posted some thoughts on the awards in the forum lounge.