Janapdroids
Art and music is nearly always worth far more than the sum of its parts. I mean, all Van Gogh ever did was slap some oil paints with a horsehair brush onto cheap canvas. And all Shakespeare did was to dip a feather plucked from some poor bird’s backside into a pot of ink and scrawl on some cheap parchment.
Cody ChestnuTT – The Headphone Masterpiece
Sometimes, you stumble across something so terrible, that it’s an actual effort to drag yourself through it once more, for the purposes of reviewing. For whatever reason, that album review you were supposed to finish hangs over you like a dread spirit of reviewers past. See, if you didn’t have to review it, you could just confine it to the trash and never hear it again. But as you’re reviewing it, there’s a feeling of guilt if you don’t listen to it at least once more, just to confirm it was that terrible, just to pull something out from the mire to make a reference to.
That The Headphone Masterpiece is one of these albums should already be obvious to you. The thing is, it really didn’t have to be this bad. Cody added those sly licks and sharp, dirty asides to The Roots version of The Seed 2.0, which was without a doubt one of the best crossover hits of the past decade. Smooth, dirty, witty, sharp and with a huge funk lick, it was a massive single, and deservedly so. … Continue Reading
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