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this is certainly not the best music, it is interesting to me. People hold on to this idea that hip-hop has always been either about wanting to be a character in the Godfather and/or a real life gangster (see Yo Gotti, Irv Gotti,Rick Ross, Freeway, Nas, Noreaga,Kool G Rap,50 Cent,Scarface,French Montana, or the difficulties of growing up poor and the importance of realizing these difficulties (often using the ubiquitous "from whips and chains to whips and chains: see J.Cole, Talib Kweli,Mos Def, Nas, Dead Prez, Flobots(I hate when the s is a $) when really a lot of early hip-hop was more just "I just wanna dance" (shout out Dazed and Confused, shout out Richard Linklater, even though I feel like I only liked that movie "Tape" because I was in this film class and this kid who was big,dumb,mean was like "this sucks WHEN ARE WE GONNA WATCH AVATAR?!" so I think I liked it in defiance to that kid. But it's not that bad of a movie. It's got Ethan Hawke in it, which really doesn't count for too much (see: nothing). But it's still pretty good. We had to watch Idiocracy in that class as well. If there's EVER a movie that you only need to watch once, that's probably not it, I'm sure there are worse movies, but it's hard to watch twice especially when you have to study for a Geology quiz the next day. Yeah, Geology was hard for me.
But yes, I like this songs because they show that music doesn't always have to be so pretentious. Sometimes I feel like all things (myself VERY MUCH included) have become so into themselves. We needed a gritty Superman with a Hanz Zimmer soundtrack? He wore red underwear over a blue one piece spandex suit thing. It's just not that cool anymore. Superheroes are sort of for children. Am I wrong here?
Should grown men sit around and talk about comics and wear hockey jerseys? Are these our intellectuals now? I know there are plenty of people who do sit around and discuss important things and that I don't watch them enough. I do know that. And yet, I sometimes feel when another superhero movie comes out and dominates the box office that we just like anything with a booming soundtrack and a mysterious origin story.
