Piano Man

Can somebody tell me why so many niggas are thinking that it’s dope to get white people who play piano and sing to be in their rap song?

Here’s Thom York(from Radiohead) with the should be commercial hip hop supergroup, Child Rebel Soldier, with the song Us Placers:

I’m gonna get back to CRS and why they aren’t on top or the most popular thing ever in a bit.

Here’s another video. The most recent Kanye West video with Chris Martin(from Coldplay) called Homecoming. Video JUST came out a couple days ago. I can’t even get the fucking flash version of it up. Here’s a link:

And another video…Lupe Fiasco with Matthew Santos in Superstar:

Matthew Santos is actually a solo dude from Minnesota who does acoustic stuff.

Here’s Jay-Z with Chris Martin(Coldplay) in the song beach chair:
This isn’t the actual video: you know how niggas on youtube are, you can find any song:

There’s more videos, but you get the picture.

Can somebody please tell me why niggas are out here copying each other like it ain’t no problem. Where’s the individual style at. And I mean…this shit is only going on in the Roc. Is Coldplay planning on changing labels soon and I don’t know about that shit.
I’m gonna place all of this blame on Kanye West. A lot of times, I’ll blame Kanye for the stupid shit he might be associated with.

One thing that isn’t stupid that Kanye West is associated with is CRS, Child Rebel Soldier. This is a group comprised of Mr. West, Pharrell Williams, and Lupe Fiasco. That song “Us Placers” is dope as fuck. Kanye West takes blame for that song because it was originally featured on one of his mixtapes.
Though CRS isn’t stupid, can somebody tell me why:
CRS isn’t the most popular thing ever.
Two of the biggest names of hip hop and Lupe Fiasco(who’s moving sort of laterally(and a little bit upward) on his new album) should have the rap game in a chokehold.
There’s nothing any rap group that matters could do to touch them. It doesn’t matter whether you dislike one of them(I dislike Kanye) or all of them…they should be on top of the world.

And with that said…
here’s the UrbanDictionary.com definition of swagger:
SWAGGER

An extremely risky Pokemon move, that confuses your foe but Doubles his attack power. Great if they hit themselves, but if they don’t you could be fucked.

“Hariyama used Swagger!”
“Salamence is confused!”
“Salamence used Aerial Ace!”
“it’s Super Effective!”
“Hariyama fainted!”

Pokemon is serious business.

Peace.

2 Responses to “Piano Man”

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  2. wow….I must agree with you 100 percent…plus maybe even another 50 percent….The world is nothing but an encasing of very interesting people who don’t necessarily understand the inportance of music to the urban community…and because the “Piano Music” isn’t the norm…(unless you from up North) the “southern” music heads prefer their organs and snare drums with some dude from the hood they believe have a voice….so when when Kanye, Pharrel and Lupe come together (who’ve all represented some other aspect of trying to revive “hiphop”) only those who truly seek to allievate some sort of feeling through music graviate towards them….They should have to game on lock…but they don’t because as we all know….people seem to reject the things that aren’t like themselves….I can’t wait to see the world change into something that allows this type of music to be grasped eagerly by the hearts of everyone!

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