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August 24, 2007 | Tags: Common, Atmosphere, EMo

                First and foremost I don’t really think anybody got the purpose of that blog on Lil Wayne yesterday. While I do think dude has gotten lazy, I really don’t give two shits about him. Actually, the only reason I wrote that blog (which I damn near wrote in my sleep upside down while finishing a season game of “Madden 08) was to counter the blog I had written a little over midnight about the human body, and the fact it wasn’t designed to eat meat. ( Check that here) Dude is normally not important enough to me for me to write about, especially when there’s 400 other Lil Wayne blogs, but I had to do something for the kids who wouldn’t be able to understand (or just don’t care, I mean…this is a hip hop site, I can’t blame them for not wanting to see that here) for anything educational. While dude may be “the hottest rapper” out right now, our continuing coverage of “Lil Wayne News” is just prolonging the inevitable. But hey…it’s whatever. Back to good music…



“Hey yo man, how you doing? How you been? Just been making it cool to rap about love again,”
Slug “Give Me”



                See, ever since Common went hippie (hippies are dope) on us post-Badu-pussy, everybody swears he’s the first rapper to rap about love often. Me personally, I don’t really like saying someone was the “first” to do anything, cuz at the age of 24, there will always be a 34 year old to come out the cut and say “What you talking about? So and so did that way back in the day. You youngins…” While I may not know who jumped the whole thing off, I know prior to Ms. Badu’s “adjustment” to Mr. Lynn, Slug of Atmosphere had been bringing the borderline-emo shit to the table. Speaking about love/relationships/sex on at least 2/3 of every album, Atmosphere makes music for that guy that tells his friends he had sex with two chicks yesterday, and then goes home and calls a chick to tell her he loves her, only to get played and feel stupid. (If you don’t recognize him, it’s probably you…you know you only talk to one girl...stop fronting) An, Atmosphere “love” song is far different from a Common “love” song.  While Common makes the songs that will have your girl holding your hand and smiling, Atmosphere makes the songs that will have your girl wondering what the hell is going on in your head. The fact of the matter is, (or at least I believe) Atmosphere’s music deals more with the reality of relationships between the opposite sex, not the” powder puff make believe everybody will have someone to love them for eternity” type of love songs you hear on the radio. While Com may say in his song how he found that special lady and he wants to make her happy, Slug will talk about the chick he does everything for that makes him feel like shit. You’ll probably only get the situation from that first song once or twice in your life, but the situation from the second song will more than likely come more often. (Especially when you consider this) I’m not gonna debate which song is better, I believe the real questions is will there ever be balance between the two in the mainstream eyes?



                Fuck no! That’s the only way I could answer that question. In all reality, comparing an Atmosphere love song to a Common love song is like comparing Ras Kass’ “Nature of the Threat” to Nas’ “I Know I Can”. One is simplistic, up-beat, and cheery, the other is dark, detailed, and sometimes, to some people, hard to accept as reality. While some may argue how REAL an Atmosphere love song isn’t (with the occasional drug references and mentions of suicide), or Ras’ “Nature of the Threat” (Where Ras gives a history lesson which can be roughly translated into “white people are evil”), they can’t argue that it’s pretty obvious neither were made with intentions of being in the “Top 4 at 4” on your local radio station. Besides, people are already complaining that every song doesn’t have to be serious, and I’ve heard people attempt to tell me Little Brother is boring, so if they don’t want to deal with the reality LB brings, they damn sure aren't ready for Atmosphere.



 So I guess it’s the artists fault, right? That’s too bad, cuz in between “Super soaking dat hoe” every now and then I think it’d be pretty dope to hear some Atmosphere on the radio. (Not that I listen to the radio…thank god for my Zune)


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