the hippidy hop.

"you can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, should've, would've happened, or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on. "
-tupac

Now I never knew much about Tupac. But as I go on a musical journey with him and his albums, I get why people cared why he died. Ya. I'm about 15 years late on that train. But it makes me wonder what other trains I'm late on. Just recently it occured to me that The Clash and The Police have a reggae beat in common. It's only by listening to entire albums that I get the artist.

I've been turned off of "rap" for decades. It left a weird taste in my mouth and I never really gave it a shot. It's like someone cooking you calamari and overcooking it but you don't know it because you've never had calamari before. You think "ugh plaagh gah this is horrible and rubbery. Did someone batter a condom and serve it to me? WTF!" and may think that calamari is shit and never eat it again.

Then you go to europe where they know what seafood is and how to make it and it's not overcooked and tastes glorious! (but don't eat squid. they are smarter than you. and it's not nice.)

Well the same thing can happen with music.