They sell your style at Walgreens

I was at Walgreens reading an article about Lupe Fiasco and the title was Lupe Fiasco “the most enlightened rapper in the world”.

From Wikapedia:( cause I was too lazy to type out a definition)

The Age of Enlightenment was an the era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific, and cultural life centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. It is also known as the Age of Reason.

Buddhism: The action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth

Enlightened – having knowledge and spiritual insight

Really?

I better listen to Lupe’s album again!

Reading deeper in the article I read that BOB’s hit single was actually one that Lupe was supposed to have recorded. Damn I thought – music, fashion, movies, identities are all prefabricated. Wait…

I already knew that. I suppose I thought that maybe there was a time this didn’t happen and thought momentarily that human beings appreciated substance and ingenuity. But thinking carefully, perhaps not really. Labels have been creating images, ideas, and concepts that artists take on for years. They even tried to make Greg Brady go solo:

Half of the people they call artists are just images anyway. Something that matches what people are doing or that people will be doing.

So I started thinking and I thought…

The Beetles and Marvin Gaye were hot 40 years ago, Public Enemy and Brand Nubian was hot 20 years ago, and I don’t buy anywhere near as many records as I did 5 years ago. Every time I hear a good record on a college radio station that I like its 3 years old. Dee Jays play the same records over and over. They don’t even mix anymore.

Skill and substance went out of style goodbye NIRVANA and KRS ONE!

Then I looked up and noticed this shelf of hats and remembered, I keep going different places seeing and hearing people doing and saying the same things over and over again. Its hard to meet an original person, with an original idea, or style. But I watch a lot of TV, listen to the radio, and read magazines. I probably cant appreciate originality…

Not really.

But if I am not making anything cool, which I am not. I should shut up because I am not solving the problem, I am just talking about it.

Why do something different, maybe its for my own sake.