this'll be brief, i promise.
first, childish gambino's camp drops momentarily, and i'm pretty excited. you can stream it over at npr, so if the darling glover piques your interest in the slightest, do check it out. 'heartbeat' has my ear at the moment, though if the rest of his work is any indication, i'll jump from favourite to favourite over the next little while.
second - drake's latest album/mixtape/whatever it is, take care, just arrived to much fanfare.
i couldn't be angrier.
i love love loved jamie xx and gil scott-heron's collaboration, and drake's take on the title track of his new creation... disgusts me. the man has a production team that's second to none, and yet his version of 'original' music is to take a gorgeous song, let rihanna (retch) repeat the lead vocals and then throw two verses over literally the exact same song with a drum beat added. no modification, no sampling, no musicality - hell, no original thought - just his ill-thought out words over somebody else's music. it's like the man is doing it solely for the attention.
oh.
music is commerce, and i'm familiar with the notion that some treat it as more commercial than others. but there is a solid line between respectful use of a legendary (and recently deceased) artist's work, and the sheer pillage of said work for profit. and toronto's finest just trampled right the fuck over that line.
so get back in the studio. write something. create something.
be an artist.
