So I been feeling kinda guilty that I don't post, or even listen to, 95% of the music people send me. This cat spammed up Soundcloud with his track and it's totally ridiculous, but I kinda like it. And c'mon son: who's gonna post Siberian homegrown hip-hop 100% VHS Quality if not me?
So Notorious is out. It looks pretty boring. Not to hate, but biopics are all the same, blah blah childhood blah blah first big break, blah blah oh shit I'm so famous now, and in the background you get different decades' lamps and news clips and shit.
Someday we'll get a hip-hop film that's as interesting visually/narratively as the music is sonically/lyrically: Krush Groove meets I'm Not There or 8 Mile meets Natural Born Killers. Or Wild Style meets Naked Lunch. Or Juice meets I Am Cuba, that would be the shit. In the meantime we'll have to settle for Mephistophididdy's latest cash-in.
I feel that artists' responses to 9/11--in film, music, literature--that I've seen haven't really been able to successfully interpret it, or bend its resonance into something else. I think the only way to get at its impact is to stick with the thing itself, confront it in all its raw emotion. So that's what I tried to do here.