Drake featuring kanye west, lil'wayne, eminem - Forever

Esta musica tem girado a net criando katrinas e enchentes de controversia nos forums blogs e message boards. Muitos putos tem-me perguntado o que eu acho disto...


As questoes pertinentes que se levantaram foi:

A musica supostamente reune os "melhores mcs" da actualidade, quem cuspiu melhor?

Lil'wayne e o suposto "top rapper" da america do momento, como e que o devemos pesar na balanca em relacao aos seus predecessores?

Drake?

Forever, como musica?

Primeiro, Forever como musica ta gira, qualquer adjectivo que se paralele a classico ou epico e jogo de luz, fumo, e ventoinha pra fazer esvoacar o cabelo, quero dizer, ficcao, hype e exagero.
Conceptualmente, e uma musica falhada. Lebron James o Sao Sebastiao da NBA convidou Drake para fazer uma musica que falasse de Eternidade para por na soundtrack do seu filme que esta para sair. Drake usou a oportunidade para chamar os supostos melhores MCs da actualidade para cada um em 16 bars relatar porque, e o que e necessario pra se ser eterno. Nao muito diferente da musica "classic" ha uns anos atras patrocinada pela Nike, reunindo Krs, Nas, Rakim e Kanye:



Mas neste contexto, a musica falhou porque em vez de abordarem o tema como aquando do "Classic", limitaram-se a um espetaculo de ego trip, fazendo a musica funcionar apenas pelo sangue jorrado na arena de competicao. Forever e portanto, uma banal ego trip song que reune um combate entre a nova escola e a velha escola, a cuspir desta feita num beat que nao sendo sick e acima da media, sobretudo pelas variacoes pormenores e camadas, a mudanca dos drums ta dope.

Os unicos MCs de Elite, a meu ver, que e justo dizer-se estar entre os "melhores mc's da actualidade" sao o Eminem e o Drake. Eminem apesar de estar tematicamente cansado, redundante ainda nao vi ninguem supera-lo na abordagem ao instrumental, Shady e mesmo um eterno esfomeado.

Drake



Drake e uma especie de simbiose entre Andre 3000, jay-z e lil'wayne. E o rapper/Crooner, que mistura rap e r&b de uma forma dope. Nem e injusto dizer que e o melhor rapper/cantor a emergir do hiphop americano desde a lauryn e Andre 3000.

A diferenca entre niggaz como o k-os, will.iam, b.o.b. , kid cudi vs. Drake, e que os primeiros sao essencialmente musicos e cantores que rimam, nao sao mc's. Drake e um fenomeno contrario, por isso um fenomeno mais efemero e especial: um MC que canta. Gosto de pensar que Drake e K'naan sao os new comers sing song/rappers que mais MCs sao. Tenho carinho por ambos.

E um protegido do lil'wayne que e muito melhor que o Wayne, porque? Excelente voz, rima melhor que wayne, sinto que escreve melhor que wayne, comunica melhor que wayne, tem mais flow que wayne, canta e tem a capacidade de fazer melhores musicas que wayne. E o mais impressionante e a consistencia do mano. Tem apenas 2 mix-tapes, nao tem contrato editorial e e o rapper mais bem sucedido da america em 09, rookie do ano consensual e ate cuspiu no album do jigga. Acho que nunca se viu na historia do rap um mixtape rapper, sem editora, cuspir num album mainstream muito menos do Jigga.

drake tem 50 musicas, as 50 sao boas musicas e a maioria tem versos rebobinaveis. Tem limitacoes claro, sobretudo tematicas, e um ll cool j que faz pussy rap e grandes sons biograficos = emo rap reminiscente de um kanye west da velha guarda ou um Murs 3;16 e pouco mais.

E a meu ver o melhor rapper da nova escola no cenario mainstream americano, a par de k'naan, o mais recente imigrante Nova Iorquino, dai a coloca-lo no patamar da America. Drake pra concluir, tem uma dica muito especial, faz as musicas soarem effortless, parece facil, sao as unicas semelhancas que atribuo ao jigga.



Lil'wayne



Lil'wayne e um average rapper. E provavelmente o top mc mais debil e limitado da historia do rap. E um nigga que vendeu platina com uma musica a fazer uma metafora que compara uma mulher a um "chupa chupa" e um club hit "a milli" que depois de ter sido fatigado por todos os MCs do planeta veio a descobrir-se que o verso original foi o mais wack sugiro que oicam a versao do asher roth, copywrite, crooked i e centenas de outros rappers q o fizeram melhor que ele.
A mixtape supostamente classica do Lil'wayne e a "the drought 3" se compararmos com a serie do crooked i "hiphop weeklys" com a mixtape do joell ortiz deste ano, "covers the classics", com o trabalho do proprio Drake, e de outros new comers como cory gunz -

o lil'wayne e basico e limitado.

Se quisermos mesmo ver a coisa de outro prisma, Lil'wayne tematicamente raramente surpreende, o album the carter 3 e mediano e o nigga tem tipo 1000 musicas com apenas 15 versos rebobinaveis. Como e que um rapper com este tipo de track record pode ser aclamado de melhor da actualidade. Don't believe the hype.

Kanye west

Kanye e super competitivo, cresce todos os anos como rapper, e uma lenda pelos albums classicos que fez, e um artista fenomenal por um punhado de razoes, mas nao e um dope MC, e apenas um nice MC. Merece o hype, trabalha muito, mas comparando-o com um Apathy ou Papoose entre dezenas de exemplos que poderiam ser dados, Kanye nao e top MC.

Eminem


Volto a reiterar, esta cansado e as x ate soa mal em cima dos beats, mas e um mano que nao tem nada a provar, ta no hall of fame, mas que se nota que nao basta pra ele. Eminem sonha e esforca-se pra ser o G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time)
E dos rappers mais esfomeados, perfeccionistas que alguma vez vi. Caiu dps do Eminem show, nao e tao consistente como o jay-z por exemplo, mas enquanto o jigga tem consistencia nunca testemunhei genio no seu rap, contrariamente a Eminem que busca sempre a excelencia na rima, sempre a superacao mesmo quando falha, a fome dele e notoria. Foi o melhor no som e a razao e simples:

- Eminem e um acrobata, ele ja nem faz rimas silabicas,
cospe em esquemas multisilabicos

- Todos cuspiram muito bem e confesso que ate o Lil'wayne me impressionou,
fui injusto, lil'wayne passa a ter 16 grandes versos em 1000 musicas. lol e nenhum som classico. Mas o Em trouxe outra dica, bem mais elevacao que os demais.

- Abordagem ao beat do Em foi complexa todos os outros foram average com a excepcao do Drake

- Intensidade e drama...Ja sabemos que nesse departamento so o pac competia com o shady.

- Mano conseguiu no mesmo tempo que o outros rappers cuspir o dobro das palavras, e ainda ter impacto lirico. Impressionante, e deste tipo de motivacao que lendas sao feitas.

Por esssas razoes o Eminem foi o melhor. No que toca ao argumento de "melhores mcs" da actualidade, so vejo verdade parcial, 50%= Drake e Em sao mesmo mcs e acho pertinente coloca-los entre os melhores o resto e hype.



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HOME

"HOME"
Realizado por: Yann Arthus-Bertrand


ha um documentario macabro q saiu ai, que toda gente tem de ver...e facilmente o melhor documentario ecologico que alguma x vi.
ta perfeito. Chama-se "HOME" podem cata-lo no utube, basta procurar "HOME".

Fala de toda a historia do planeta terra ate a nossa contemporaneidade, e de como nos ultimos 10,000 anos da historia da humanidade, conseguimos destruir o equilibrio "milagroso" da natureza terrestre que define a existencia como nos a conhecemos.

O planeta existe ha 4 bilhoes de anos, os humanos a apenas 200,000, e desde a descoberta das energias nao renovaveis que estamos a convidar o armagedao (situacao ideal pra envocar termos biblicos epicos)
a um hiper ritmo a partir da destruicao de tudo que o natureza nos deu e da nossa mitica resistencia a mudanca.

Fala minuciosamente sobre todas fontes de fadiga da nossa terra: agricultura compulsiva, industria, deflorestacao, transporte.
A falencia do modelo capitalista, com provas de que as discrepancias entre os ricos e os pobres dilata-se mais a cada grao de areia de cai na ampulheta. E essa mesma areia cai cada vez mais rapido, a medida que produzimos mais e cada vez mais rapido. cada vez mais e mais rapido.

Alguns factos:

A agua desalinada para construir metropoles em desertos do medio oriente, dubai e companhias que nao se tem renovado...
14 mil toneladas de agua sao utilizadas para dar origem a 1 kilo de carne, 1/4 dessa quantia pra hidratos de carbono.
Pq e q ha celulite e obesidade hoje e antigamente o fenomeno n estava banalizado? Pq e que a incidencia de cancro e muito mais comum? Por exemplo o celeiro de vegetais da Europa e em Espanha, que dps distribui os verdes por todos supermercados Europeus. Antes deixava-se o solo repousar e fazia-se a agrigultura de epoca, hoje nao ha tempo, somos hiperbole, somos a mais e em excesso e com comportamentos fatalmente excesivos, e so servimos pra servir interesses corporativos, somos todos sobretudo, consumidores, cercados pelo modelo do dinheiro, que se apresenta no que diz respeito a nossa sobrevivencia e do planeta, obsoleto, retrogado e inutil (muitos vao me chamar de radical, ate maluco, mas vejam o documentario e dps falem comigo).

Agora, em Espanha usam fertilizantes pra estimular a terra, para os verdes crescerem
o ano inteiro, os "agricultores" q colocam o fertilizante no solo, tem fatos amarelos anti corrosivos, luvas e capacetes. O que e q esses fertilizantes tem?
ninguem sabe...isto e apenas um dos poros pelo qual o HOME transpira,vai bem mais alem, detalhando e mostrando com uma camera periferica, angulos estadio de futebol, grua e guindaste, com uma fotografia estupenda e uma narrativa comunicativa, clara e pouco tecnica todos os sintomas, da nossa doente doente bola azul.

Temos cerca de 10/20 anos na melhor das hipoteses, de criar um novo modelo de vida. Os buracos ja se sentem no edredon da atmosfera,
veroes cada x mais quentes e milhares de especies animais em risco.
Das coisas mais interessantes, e que ao vermos o mundo de cima durante cerca de 1h17 min do percurso desta obra-prima, e o quao pertencentes a natureza nos somos, e como estamos todos ligados e interligados num equilibrio transcendente, mas vivemos num modelo que nos ensina sobretudo a competir, a perpetuarmos o individualismo, que nos diz que quem aufere mais e melhor, quando e tao tao evidente que ninguem e mais q ninguem, e que status quo e essa luta doentia pela posse, e so uma ilusao.
Outra beleza do HOME e que teve sobretudo uma preocupacao sobretudo narrativa, nao aponta dedos, n ha moralismos nem conspiracoes...deixo-vos com
as palavras inicias do narrador...vejam e decidam o que fazer.

Tolstoi perguntou-me no outro dia: se estamos destinados a ser individualistas porque e que quando nos masturbamos, imaginamos interaccao?
porque e que quando os aristocratas n partilham a riqueza que tem morrem miseraveis e tristes? sem excepcao.
porque e q as experiencias so tem graca partilhadas ou escritas?

o debate do self vs. sociedade vai ser sempre uma das mais bonitas e intrigantes questoes filosoficas, ha certamente argumentos muito solidos contra esta que e umas das frases mais humanistas de sempre, e que condensa quica, um saramago, um marx, um sartre naquilo que mais queriam expressar...A questao que se coloca agora, e se e possivel unirmo-nos pra fazer as mudancas que se requerem, num mundo em que o self se tornou fascista e olha para ideias comuns como sendo sonhos, ilusoes e quimeras. Esse estereotipo ja cansa, toda pessoa que pensa em escala global e excumungada de hippie, camponio, sonhador e lunatico. Pergunto-me o que e os individualistas acerrimos estao a pensar agora que o mundo tem claramente um encontro marcado com o fim:

"a unica funcao do ser humano e servi-se um ao outro"
Tolstoi.


2 bilhoes (parece me algo exagerado este numero) de pessoas ja viram...e so abdicar do telejornal, novela, big brother e companhia 1 noite...e quem sabe, n e o momento mais importante do ano pra voces...

trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IozVfph7I

dica em ingles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU

dica em PT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8Nt759-y0


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Entrevista muito interessante a Jay-Z

Algo contextualizada ao percurso do Artista no Reino Unido, mas perguntas muito inteligentes e pertinentes.
Jay-z fala e carrega-se como um homem de 40 anos, coisa pouco comum no hiphop. Bonito de se ver.

Explora: politica americana, obama, racismo na america e a influencia positiva que o hiphop tem na sua irradicacao, influencias de jigga, o que jigga ta a ouvir (arcade fire e o mano ate foi apanhado num concerto de grizly bear, jigga tal como eu e fa de indie rock, fiquei parvo)

The Magna Carter

Will Jay-Z tone down his 'reality rap' now he's got Obama on speed dial? What would he play Noel G to get him into hip-hop? And, asks Malik Meer, does he really reckon he's the Kurt Cobain of hip-hop?

Shawn Carter aka Jay-Z

In the back room of a north London recording studio Jay-Z is rolling a rhyme around his mouth. "What was it again? 'I've got 99 problems but the ... huh?'" he says, scanning the walls, desperately trying to remember. "'I've got 99 world problems but the ba ...' Damn!" Slouched on a sofa, Jay-Z - AKA Shawn Carter, the Jigga Man, the God MC, the self-proclaimed "black Sinatra" - is recalling the last time he pressed flesh with the president of the USA. The 39-year-old rapper had been booked to perform at Barack Obama's inauguration party but at the last minute, panic set in. Worried that the first lady and her daughters may not take kindly to his casual cursing, he quickly reordered the set, reworking the lyrics of some his best-known tracks including "99 problems but a bitch ain't one". "It was slick," he laughs, "I gotta get that to you."

A quick Google reveals the line was "I've got 99 world problems but a Bush ain't one" but the anecdote only serves to underline the extraordinary journey Jay-Z's taken and where he stands on the pop-cultural landscape. Thirteen years on fron the release of his debut album, his life story reads like a made-for-TV movie: Carter Jr grows up in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Projects to a single-parent mother, starts dealing drugs, turns to hip-hop, releases his debut album himself; years pass and he's crowned the greatest rapper of all time, amasses a fortune through various business ventures, marries the hottest pop singer in the world and his friend and fan becomes the POTUS.

If you came across it on the Biography Channel you'd baulk at the predictability of the rags-to-riches, American-dream trajectory and flip channels. Yet his impact and influence is there for all to see. You can hear his God-given skills as a rapper on his best albums such as 1996's Reasonable Doubt (the self-financed debut), on 2001's The Blueprint and 2003's The Black Album. You can see it on forbes.com where it's noted that between June 2008 and June 2009 Jay-Z earned $35m from touring revenues and business ventures. It's on fan messageboards and MTV.com, where he was crowned the greatest MC of all time. It's visible in the charts where his proteges and signings Kanye and Rihanna (who both appear on new single Run This Town), and Ne-Yo run riot. And you can see it on YouTube when the future president, on the campaign trail, mimics Jay's Dirt Off Your Shoulder video by brushing metaphorical enemies off his shoulder.

Chattier and gigglier in person than his on-stage persona would suggest, over the next hour Jay will tell us why he doesn't do Twitter ("I'm a private person but I am a Twitter voyeur"), what his friend, the slain rapper Biggie Smalls might be doing now ("We'd be working together, we started an album called The Commission"), and what he's listening to (MIA, Arcade Fire, Drake and MGMT, who were originally pencilled in to appear on his new record).

But first, Jay-Z has taken it upon himself to give hip-hop a huge kick up its low-slung backside. If anyone can save it, Jigga man can. DOA (Death Of Auto-Tune), the blog-busting taster from the new album, The Blueprint 3, calls time on lazy MCs and the auto-correction tool popular with radio-friendly rappers. "I know we facing a recession, but the music y'all making going make it the great depression", he raps as fluoro-coloured outfits are blown to smithereens in the song's Zabriskie Point-inspired video. How could his friend and producer, the fluoro-favouring, Auto-Tune addict Kanye West not take it as a personal attack?

"Hip-hop is just about expression: he expresses himself one way, I express myself in another," he begins, quite clearly unthreatened by the prospect of one of Kanye's CAPS LOCK!!! ripostes. "I mean he's on the song; he says, 'That's too far.'"

The track is indicative of Jay-Z's belief that this is a time for action: "As a person at the forefront of my genre, it's my responsibility to make my contribution to correct it. If people see me being fearless with my influences, taking chances, then maybe everyone will go for it. I don't do it for the money, it's for the love of the music and the protection of it. It's like, 'COME ON, WAKE UP!'" he pleads. "This is a call to arms. If I didn't care I would make a record with Auto-Tune and keep going until one day we wake up and no one's listening to rap, like what happened with rock music. When everybody let the hair bands run crazy, rock went through that terrible period. Kurt Cobain was the anti-hair band." If this were his friend and fellow rapper P Diddy speaking you'd feel duty bound to laugh in his face. Or wonder if hip-hop needed saving. Yet, even though Jay-Z's last two albums were the sound of a coasting superstar, no other rapper has sustained a comparable career and stayed at the top of their game. The Guide's sneak preview of his new album, The Blueprint 3, suggests it doesn't quite scale the heights as effortlessly as the original Blueprint, but there's no denying the ambition.

Over here Jay-Z is best known for his triumphant 2008 Glastonbury performance, after the rock'n'roll bores ruled that a rapper shouldn't be headlining the UK's premier music festival.

"What a fantastic time, huh?" he beams, when asked how he looks back on it now. "Ha ha! It's a career-defining moment, like winning the first Grammy. It just felt like a barrier being broken and for the good. It was almost archaic to me. Like this is going on right now?" he says, still bemused that anyone, never mind Noel Gallagher, would question his validity. "What are you talking about? It's all music. I may not play instruments but I have more words in one verse than you have in an entire song. I can say that, I have an argument."

At the time, he said he'd like to sit Noel down and teach him about hip-hop. What would he play him?

"So many different albums. I'd play him NWA [Straight Outta Compton, 1988] so he could really understand the angst and what was going on in LA at the time. Because hip-hop is not just, 'Fuck, bitch, shit, ass, motherfucker.' You know, understand that the riots were happening, and LA was burning, and these kids were in the hood in Compton and the cops would just drive by, beat them up and then drop them off in an opposing gang's neighbourhood. That's deliberate; like, you could die. This is real, this really happened. So when you hear a song like Fuck Tha Police, that's not because they think they're tough, that's because they've been beat and they're fighting back."

As well as Tupac, Biggie Smalls and Dr Dre, Jay would also make Noel listen to the original God MC, Rakim, to teach him about intelligence of the rhymes; to show how far ahead of his time Rakim was in the late-80s. "When people was rhyming [raps] 'I don't care, the rocks ya'll wear' he was using couplets like [raps Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em] 'I'm the arsenal/I got artillery/Lyrics of ammo/Rounds of rhythm'," he pauses for breath. "It was mind-blowing that someone was doing this."

Aside from the ensuing media storm, rumours that he would be arriving at Glastonbury by mega-bling helicopter disturbed him too. "It was just not true," he stresses. "If I was in the club and I had 30 bottles of champagne and I was celebrating, then say that. But if I came on the bus then don't say I came in a gold-plated helicopter because I know what you're doing at that point. I'm all about intention."

What does he think the intention was?

"The intent was, 'These foolish black guys who spend too much money on things and they think they're all this and that.'"

Noel aside, there's another N-word that triggers a passionate outburst. In 2007, rap mogul Russell Simmons and political activist Al Sharpton gathered in Motown at the NAACP's annual convention to give the word "nigger" a symbolic funeral. On Jay-Z's new album the word can be heard as often as it can on many other rap records. Did he think twice about using it? "It's not an issue for me at all," he says, shaking his head. "I think people give words power and a racist is a racist; if you eliminate the word 'nigger' he'll say 'monkey' or 'jigaboo'. What we had done in hip-hop is we defused the power of the word and changed it into a term of endearment. I know a lot of people don't buy that but that's just what you have to accept."

It's the racist mentality that people should be attacking, he says, and the energy that's spent focusing on the word denies hip-hop's socially cohesive powers. "I think hip-hop music ironically had a big play in the home," he reasons. "Racism is taught in the home; you're taught racism as a child. But it's hard to teach racism when your child is partying and listening to black people."

Similarly, he refuses to follow the growing consensus among black America's cultural power-brokers (Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Spike Lee et al) and condemn gangsta rap. Admittedly, he has a vested interest, but condeming it is a cheap shot as far as he's concerned.

"Put it like this: everything is birthed from somewhere real, right?" he says. "These emotions and this anger and this angst in reality rap is coming from a real place. People in those circles try to dismiss it, but you can't because it's part of culture. They only attack hip-hop because, and I hate to sound like a cynic, but this is all done for publicity purposes, right? You don't attack the real issue; you attack the thing that's popular."

Which is why he had to tread carefully during Obama's campaign. The incoming president's image loomed large over Jay's live shows last year; at Glastonbury it was used in the Oasis-baiting intro video to suggest that the times were a-changing. He and Barack have spoken on the phone recently but Jay-Z says he knows when to back off. "I didn't want the association with rappers and gangsta rappers to hinder anything that he was doing," he says. "I came when I was needed; I didn't make any comments in the press, go too far or put my picture with Obama on MySpace, Twitter, none of that."

Having conquered the music and business worlds, the Bio Channel trajectory would surely end with Jay-Z running for office. How long before he crosses over?

"Nah," he says, quickly batting away the suggestion. "People are held to such a standard and that's just not real or true. In a field like that the truth is not as important as the perception of who you are. The only reason I've been involved in any politics is because the hope of Obama is bigger than politics. It got to the point where we weren't living out our tag line: you know, 'America, home of the free'."

He pauses.

"Maybe now we can have some type of dialogue and get back to a normal place."

• Run This Town is out on Mon; The Blueprint 3 is out on 14 Sep

fonte: the guardian online

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