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4. Neverland RanchIt’s not as though everything was hunky-dory for MJ before he moved here. But somehow, the star’s retreat into a llama-stocked, Ferris-wheel-equipped, 2,600-acre Southern California funny farm in 1988 didn’t help his psyche. Wacko Jacko may since have emerged from his rustic Xanadu — dangling a baby off a balcony here, facing child-molestation charges there — and moved to Bahrain, but the great pop star he used to be has been lost forever in this multimillion-dollar shrine to childhood.
2. Suge KnightHere’s some advice: If Suge Knight offers to bail you out of jail, wait for a better offer. After doing this for Tupac Shakur, the bullying head of Death Row records molded a talented 24-year-old rapper into a doomed gangsta cartoon, fanned a preposterous coastal rap feud (fuck the Bering Strait, too, while we’re at it!) and steered his young star on a confrontational course that ended in a bullet-riddled BMW 750. Whether or not Biggie Smalls’s subsequent murder was related, Knight drafted a tragedy hip-hop never got over.
9. WhiteyThere are people who believe that this creature — call him “honky,” “ofay” or the “blue-eyed devil” — was created 6,000 years ago by an evil scientist named Yakub via genetic experimentation on an island called Patmos in a … lab or something. These people are music critics. In the first half of the century, Whitey took the kaleidoscopic music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and begat Lawrence Welk and the couldn’t-be-more-appropriately-named Paul Whiteman. In the latter, he took Little Richard’s gender-bendy, crypto-porn shout “Tutti Frutti” and begat its wan, Wonder Breaded anathema, Pat Boone. We see the Beast’s essence everywhere. There he is, a beefy blond youth in a Von Dutch cap, spilling keg beer as he shifts weight from one Teva to another to a Bob Marley song — something he calls “dancing”; there he is, performing as Michael Bolton and Vanilla Ice or singing through the narrow, goateed visage of A.J. McLean. The dreaded character George Clinton christened Sir Nose D’Void of Funk has had an anti-Midas touch on music for decades now, whether it’s rockers copping the sexiness but not the subtlety of the blues in the ’50s or lemon-faced mooks hijacking hip-hop’s vigor to express the torments of suburban males who can’t get laid in the ’90s. White folks: They ruin everything.
Quote from: Mattdrush1 on May 17, 2006, 12:54:03 PM2. Suge KnightHere’s some advice: If Suge Knight offers to bail you out of jail, wait for a better offer. After doing this for Tupac Shakur, the bullying head of Death Row records molded a talented 24-year-old rapper into a doomed gangsta cartoon, fanned a preposterous coastal rap feud (fuck the Bering Strait, too, while we’re at it!) and steered his young star on a confrontational course that ended in a bullet-riddled BMW 750. Whether or not Biggie Smalls’s subsequent murder was related, Knight drafted a tragedy hip-hop never got over.WTF? When Pac signed to Death Row he released 2 classic albums. Not to mention all the unreleased stuff that got put into "R U Still Dow?".
48. Hip-Hop SkitsSmart rap fans know the drill: As soon as you burn a new album, instantly delete any track that’s under a minute long. It’s the best way to avoid the stupid banter, fake sound effects and unfunny phone calls that bog down 95% of all hip-hop albums. Except Snoop’s “Deeez Nuuuts” bit. That’s classic.
No, when Pac signed to Death Row, he released two highly overrated albums (ESPECIALLY "All Eyez On Me"). His work on Death Row was good, but Pac's best albums were most definitely the ones that preceded "All Eyez On Me". Also, remember that the unreleased stuff from "R U Still Down" was mostly "Me Against The World" leftovers from before Pac re-did the whole record.And yes, Suge Knight is most definitely one of the worst things to happen to hip-hop. He is pretty much THE man who made the hip-hop industry synonymous with crime and real-life violence, and there's little doubt in anyone's mind that he was responsible for Biggie's murder directly, and Pac's indirectly. Suge will burn in hell when the time comes, make no mistake about it.
Quote from: Tha Spirt Ov Allah Clarence 13Xtra Tha Fatha (Iz Active) on May 17, 2006, 03:01:44 PMNo, when Pac signed to Death Row, he released two highly overrated albums (ESPECIALLY "All Eyez On Me"). His work on Death Row was good, but Pac's best albums were most definitely the ones that preceded "All Eyez On Me". Also, remember that the unreleased stuff from "R U Still Down" was mostly "Me Against The World" leftovers from before Pac re-did the whole record.And yes, Suge Knight is most definitely one of the worst things to happen to hip-hop. He is pretty much THE man who made the hip-hop industry synonymous with crime and real-life violence, and there's little doubt in anyone's mind that he was responsible for Biggie's murder directly, and Pac's indirectly. Suge will burn in hell when the time comes, make no mistake about it.thank you! i always said "All Eyez On Me" was overrated. "Me Against the World" and "The 7 Day Theory" are both better than AEOM
39. AIDSAlthough it was responsible for many deaths (Freddie Mercury and Eazy-E among them) and inspired one of the most insipid hits in the past three decades (“That’s What Friends Are For”), the most significant musical damage done by the AIDS virus came with the subsequent demonization of sex and drugs, two ingredients without which rock & roll become practically pointless — if not impossible.
29. Andrew Lloyd Webber