Jack put out thEE truth. Wishing some record execs would read it, but probably wont happen. It’s unfortunate.

J electros’ mp3 is still looping in my phones along with your last ep. ahh the sound of the primaries…

Kay is saying some good stuff in defense of the industry by placing a greater responsibility on consumers to support quality artists but overall I can’t blame them cause I’m one myself.

If somebody’s into crate digging– cool. Do ya thing, but really I feel a vast majority of people don’t have that passion– which doesn’t mean that they don’t enjoy quality music.. it just means they happen to focus their days on doing different unrealated sh*t. That’s the whole idea of paying a DJ to come spin for you since you figure that’s what they do. People place their faith in the DJ to deliver quality sh*t the same way they place their faith in these record labels to put out a quality product; the same way they place their faith in a TRL, MTV, Vh-1, etc. to bring them some quality video’s.

Kay also brought up something about going to the music store & gambling money away based on irrelevant factors like cover art, word of mouth, etc. & honestly I’ve tried those approaches. They don’t work cause most of the time I’ll get an entire cd full of garbage minus 1 or two tracks if I’m lucky.

A huge portion of this music industry has made a business out of hustlin’ the consumer. Therefore it’s hard for me to blame the victim. Especially if you had one of them Grandma’s that use to tell you sh*t like, “Money don’t grow on trees”

Mr U – That track is on iTunes, you can grab it from there if you do a search for Quant. Seems that Lax Recordings folded or something, but Quant himself is still around…

I just got to say this & I’m done— if Paul makes it to the white house & addresses the nation w/ a pillow case on his head– don’t say I didn’t warn you

Mr U – thanks for the compliment, always lovely to hear! I’m not sure what you mean about Northern Rock though, it went belly up due to a credit problems when raising funds in money markets due to the US subprime crisis.

Peace : >

Seriously though, I’d love to see Ron Paul do well. Only GOP candidate talking about a humble foreign policy and sorting the absolute mess that is the american economy. He’s talking about re-establishing some kind of Gold Standard (or equivalent) for the Dollar instead of just perpetually printing money. Imagine if you guys got into a hyper-inflation situation. Could happen.

I agree—it’s cool to hear a dialogue like this. That’s interesting cause on that song it sounded like he opposed Obama. Well, people change their mind (which is cool) but I just want to comment on a few things.

You probably noticed a ridiculous argument made in favor of Hilary. Now, Madeline Albright was the 1st woman to be prime minister of the UK (ie. euro>dollar) but she sanctioned the crap out of Iraq, which led to about 500,000 deaths (kids included.) Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful person behind Cheney & Bush, was the 1st woman to become speaker of the house. However, her efforts have continued to fund the war in Iraq & impede impeachment proceedings (which Americans are clearly in favor of.) On a positive note, Benazir Bhutto (RIP) captured the hearts of Islamic women around the world & Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won admiration from my African sista’s. In summary, I think the foundation for women in power has been well established. Neglecting these facts would be like me saying it was Hippocrates, instead of Imhotep, who was the father of medicine.

Here’s another one, TRUE-OR-FALSE:
Obama doesn’t take money from lobbyists (answer: FALSE)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070725obama,1,5894874.story

Also, I think the El Che dude was defending Obama’s stance on Iran. Problem is he failed to state his position regarding the use of nuclear weapons. For instance, Obama opposes any talk of removing OUR nuclear option from the table. Now, I don’t support the use of nuclear weapons (unless it’s in defense of the entire planet against asteroids or alien aggression) So, I have a hard time endorsing any candidate who’s down to use them as leveraging tools for a negotiation-slash-Hiroshima-slash-whatever

Mr U. No doubt on the shoutout! And the Suhburb – Yeah, that is a great cut. Did you pick up those mp3s of his we posted on Sweeney Kovar’s blog? And I’m listening to that Soil & Pimp podcast right now.

Back on the politricks – awhile back a friend of mine put me up on this mini-argument that Lupe Fiasco and Rhymefest got into – read the whole of it here.

Basically Fest is behind Obama, while Lupe is cynical as all hell about everything and supports Hillary since it’d be a change to have a woman in office. It’s an interesting exchange, and as Lupe kinda intimates – generally “beef” (though I wouldn’t call this beef) is started over something totally pointless/fake *ahem, Cam/50 or 50/Kanye* – we should all be thanking somebody in the sky that two rappers are getting in a civil, political argument.

For what it’s worth, I got Gravel and Kucinich when I took that quiz. Interesting poll.

Your Other Top Matches
Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel (D) – 68.42%
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) – 64.91%
Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards (D) – 57.89%

“this is definitely for all the marketing low lives who fail to avidly push great talent because the world’s fave reality slut randomly decided one day while botoxing her armpits that she wants to be a rockstar.” ka-POW!!

“maybe you should excuse yourself from the next a&r meeting to go take a look in the bathroom mirror . stand there & ask yourself why you took this job , & when you realize it’s simply because you wanted to be cool & “in the mix” then return to the conference room , take that gun out of your pocket , & shoot yourself in the head in front of your coworkers so that you are made an example of” GRILL EM’ JAY!!

You know, the same b.s. is going down on TV regarding this presidential race. ABC, Fox & NBC are all in on it. For instance, the most progressive candidates in the race, Dennis Kucinich & Mike Gravel, were excluded from the New Hampshire debates! Contrary to mainstream opinion, I’m way too sophisticated to vote for Obama based on his race. Unfortunately, issues revolving around racism, misogyny and fund raising seem to dominate the polls. Rhymefest raised some interesting questions regarding this on a track called, “Real Nigga Quotes (Prod. DJ Premier)

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http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html