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Cake day: June 19th, 2023
  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Tweets on X (formally Twitter)
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    2 months ago

    When it comes to hip-hop? There was an enlightenment period where my heart still lies, before the stigma of being a “conscious rapper”, “underground” - or even “backpacker”.

    I call this record industry psy-ops, because the music media tried to use it against anyone that didn’t fit the bill. How do I know that?

    THEY TRIED TO CALL JAY DILLA A BACKPACKER

    Philistines, troglodytes, absolute cretins, scum of the earth. Dear god I hate the record industry.

    Incidentally, if you want to go back into the past, I can recommend Quannum Records, the indie label of Blackalicious, Lifesavas, Latyrix and Lyrics Born.

    Other than that, Def Jux, Rhymesayers (the mixtapes, get the friggin mixtapes), Stones Throw - ofc. Back when you needed an indie label.

    Today we can happily say that bedroom productions will be the saving grace, mostly because it is seperate from the industry, so we do get a lot of great music.

    But it also proves the industry is a homogeneous bottleneck.

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Tweets on X (formally Twitter)
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    2 months ago

    The sad thing? Country used to be rebellious… I mean actually rebellious, none of this Trojan horse nationalism and fascism disguised as “traditionalism”.

    We’re talking Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and the queen her self, Dolly Parton.

    But, as of late, I’ve said this:

    Shout outs to the women of country, for bringing back the tradition - of writing songs about shooting your spouse in the face.

    Keep the dream alive.

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Tweets on X (formally Twitter)
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    2 months ago

    …I can’t. You can find them on various features, with among others De La Soul, but the point is they left. You’d have to amass the amount of hip-hop music that I have and draw a timeline where you can see them being phased out.

    It’s around the time LL Cool J turned into a sex symbol and when De La had to “add some badass to perlong their life over the drum.”

    One of these days I want to do the whole research route, but just so I can juxtapose it to country - which also suffered the same fate, only a half a century earlier.

    Capitalism is a slow crawl to mediocrity and exploitation. No culture can really survive it.

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Tweets on X (formally Twitter)
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    2 months ago

    As a strong black woman, I’m kind of pissed that we lost all those talented female lyricists and R&B singers who got Thanos snapped out of existence in the late 90s because they didn’t want to sell sex. It makes me want to slap a bitch for calling it “empowerment”…

    At least my inner black woman is angry af because of that.

    The music industry is garbage, pure garbage. Sony and Universal execs have a special place in hell.

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•No PS3 backwards compatibility
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    2 months ago

    I think the world has learned from this, since we’re abstracting and decoupling much more than before, as well as developing new and modernising old tooling all the time to lower that barrier to entry.

    Shout outs to the game Devs who had to deal with this shit for 3 years straight, as their keyboards were probably salty from all the crying, their rubber ducky all crumpled and deflated.

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Social programs ain't the solution they said
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    3 months ago

    No no no no. See, the anti-immigration industry works within new public management, meaning those contracts are already sold to our friends… I mean given to the lowest bidder., whithin the standards we decided upon of course - which are very high, expensive standards. All of this chalks up to consultancy fees, renting fees, transaction fees, headlight fluid fees, and of course marketing. I mean think of those poor people in the marketing department, how much cocaine- I mean problems they have to deal with.

    Surely you understand, that letting local enforcement and courts deal with the matter prevents us from actively exploiting- I mean processing immigration. We also have lots of help from various farmers around the country, who’ve had immigrants working on a bimonthly pay. Good that we caught that the second month in. But since there is no contract or paperwork, guess the immigrants just took up residence on that farm. For shame.

    I’ll tell you what, if we build roads to the farms and some other roads back to the borders, we’d make an effective process out of it. Whoop whoop! Free labour! WHY DOESNT ANYONE WANT TO WORK ANYMORE?!?!?

    Damned avocado toast… why, if it weren’t for all these hard working immigrants…

  • taanegl@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Liberals eating the kool aid powder raw straight from the hands of the CIA
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    4 months ago

    haha bro neoliberals betray their values and principles every day, whereas classical liberalism is just a marriage between liberalism and nationalism (they want them to kiss, in a “traditional marriage” of course). In any case, one represses what the CIA does, while the other relishes it.

    The best way to encapsulate the problem is through some logic. What you think, what you say and what you do are 3 different things, right? In a similar vein, liberal philosophy, ideologies and parties are 3 different things.

    Both liberal philosophy and ideology (besides “classical”) find imperialism disgusting, whereas western “liberal” parties seem to think we can have a little imperialism - as a treat.

    Enter the CIA, the IMF and Citibank, because they simply go where the evil is. Evil is very lucrative… because “liberalism”? How tf does that make sense? It doesn’t. You can’t make it make sense. Nobody can, especially “the liberals”.