The
music you find on this cassette by Bloodmoney & Morbidly-O-Beats (it’s a
collaboration, if you will) has an overall hip hop feel to it and I could spend
several paragraphs going on and on about how I listened to rap music growing up
on cassettes and this reminds me of that plus also the modern stuff like Sage
Francis and Killer Mike, but yet also how I don’t really listen to a lot of hip
hop in general so I can’t make too many comparisons (Though I can only ever
seem to cite a handful of references when thinking of rappers who are alive,
but there really are a lot more that I listen to and just don’t always pop into
my mind right away)
But on
the theme of this being titled “The Art of Self Destruction”, I’d like to say
that I am finally happy to hear a piece of music that reflects my views (and
those of many others I’m hoping) and it is sort of outside of my comfort zone,
which means that people like me aren’t just thinking this—everyone is kind of
starting to think it.
As a
broad example, I remember the movie “Idiocracy” by Mike Judge. You’d think that only stoners or fans of
Judge’s other work would like that movie, that sort of dark comedy, but I still
believe that it has a very strong message that needs to be conveyed and I mean,
if you’re the type of person that wouldn’t watch a Mike Judge but would maybe
get the message if a movie came out by some Hollywood director who makes Oscar
winning movies, then, you know… Whatever gets you to get it.
The
biggest overall message that I get out of this cassette is that, as they say
themselves, “Technology makes us stupid”.
And it’s true. Everything is becoming
far too easy, far too simple, but now instead of making actual efforts to be
human we say things like, “Well, shoot me a text” or “Hit me up on Facebook”. We rely on this technology to be our crutch
between ourselves, but we don’t need it.
And the
day will come when it’s gone, though it might not be in our lifetime, and
people will end up not knowing how to speak to each properly. They’ll start saying “L-O-L” instead of
actually laughing, which I know people do now anyway (Stop it! You know who you are) but it will be
something in the future that everyone does.
So what
I need for you to do is spend some time outside. I know, I don’t like it either, but we need
to get back in touch with each other in the way that our parents did before
everyone had cell phones and wi-fi. For
the good of humanity, this fine piece of hip hop and I beg of you: Do not let the next generation grow up under
the worst case scenario scheme.
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