Dame D.O.L.L.A. featuring Brookfield Duece - "They Sleep"

They spelled it right in the headline...

 

It was really hype in there that entire series, loudest its ever been when I've been there. It would be even louder if we had any chance of upsetting our 1st round opponent.

 

Not saying this is fake, but with the way the media feeds us the narrative they want us to believe... It makes me hope it is... The way the lady was reporting made it sound as if she wanted to start a race war....

I'd rather someone lie about that than actually do it... That's pretty fucked up...

 

Much of the time it's pretty clear. If it's not clear, then there's probably some level of validity.
By definition, anything that's based in anti-intellectualism is stupid.

 

http://www.sportstwo.com/forums/blazers-ot-forum.434/

 

I was convinced when obama won the first Tim that near then end of his second term the media would be feeding us I to race war. Seems I was right because it seems to be everyone's focus right now. I just wish we could stop caring about race and focus on the real issues. I work with some out standing black guys and we watch some really shitty people of all races. Race has nothing to do with someone being a piece of shit. However I do hate the main stream rap culture and blame it for a lot of the ignorance and bad stereotypes. There of course is some great rap culture out there but that's not what major label companies push, it doesnt fit the medias agenda.

 

Hip-hop used to be so intelligent
Now it seems like most of it is irrelevant
-D-V-ISS

When BET is owned by Viacom that's what you get. There's plenty of AMAZING Hip-Hop around. It just gets no airplay because Viacom would rather put the BET music awards on at the same time the Democratic debate is on. There's a systematic war on getting you good, wholesome, spirit lifting, intelligent Hip-Hop. Instead they'd rather give us this COONERY.... Here is Bobby Shmurda (WTF?) performing for industry execs.... This song was on the fucking radio...

Who put it there? Who decided this piece of SHIT was a good enough representation of what our kids should be listening to?

 

i agree.


"wont stop until the entire world's inside my palm like viacom"

there's some deep truth in that little line. need a tin foil hat? i always have an extra.

 

This verse from Kirby Dominant sums up the great divide you two are talking about:

Although I think he only touches on a feedback loop, rather than the root cause, with the final line - "the ghetto's got us tamed, so I really couldn't blame him". The root is that white male executives decided decades ago that a narrow stereotype of black culture is easier to sell to a wide spectrum of the population. Back in the 80s the pop music machine was still about making music, so the stereotypical image they were selling still had some substance to it. But over the decades record labels decided that the music doesn't matter, only the bottom line. So we're left with AWFUL* rap, but also AWFUL rock, R&B, and country too.

*To be honest, I do like some mainstream rap. But IMO the glory days of hip hop was the mid-90s "underground" stuff.

 

I just don't understand how anyone can give much of a crap about mainstream anything when it's so easy to subscribe to an underground guy like K.A.A.N. here, and get his music which is amazing instead.

 

Because they are told what to listen to, therefore not thinking for themselves.

There used to be this website (still might, actually) called cdbaby.com. I'd go on there at least 2-3x a week and pick out cds from local bands around the world.... found some AMAZING bands that way... God, that was awesome.

 

You gotta wonder if the ghost writers are just fucking with the people they're writing for.

 

Bandcamp.com dude. Bandcamp.com

cdbaby still exists (I bought a couple CDs from there last year), but bandcamp.com is the most awesome music discovery site for indie music. More than half of my music is purchased on bandcamp. DRM-free, any audio format you like (including lossless formats that are actually as good as a CD), TONS of great music.

 

Agreed on bandcamp!

 

Was bandcamp around when I was 17-19? That is when i did it the most... So 15 years ago? Oh god. LOL.

 

Sorry it just sounded like you were lamenting that you couldn't find music anymore.

I'm older than you! There's no excuse to stop buying and loving music!

 

cdbaby.com was the only one I used back then... i dont rememeber a bandcamp.

Now I want to go up on youtube and see if i can't find some of the bands I use to listen to while rollerblading around and using my No-skip cd player.

 

I'm saying bandcamp exists now for you to look for awesome new music now. It didn't exist then (if it had, I would have been expelled for spending my entire college loans on MP3s!)

 

I have some ideas for how to use this music to further promote bands... this might happen.