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The Black Culture Thread |OT14| Ruthless: The So Well Spoken Story
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Oh shit we got the director's cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEeFtCgJs8
"I was going to pray for you, but I take it back"
I can understand not knowing and being open to knowledge, but the ego over spouting some bullshit then being mad corrected on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttEeFtCgJs8
"I was going to pray for you, but I take it back"
I can understand not knowing and being open to knowledge, but the ego over spouting some bullshit then being mad corrected on it.
TheBlackMarvel
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Even The Queen knows you gotta keep that bag away from Obama!
Lol nobody wants to stand with Prince Phillip.
Cindi Mayweather
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I feel like the only black person who wasn't a fan of Prince. I didn't grow up with his music at all. I know Little Red Corvette, When Doves Cry, and Purple Rain but I never really found his music enticing enough to want to ever hear more of it. All of these people are mourning him and I just can't appreciate him beyond his technical guitar playing skills. People say he was kind of like David Bowie in that his music resonated with the weird kids, except in this case, for outcast black people mostly, but I never really got that vibe from him. I've tried listening to Purple Rain and his self titled so many times, even before his death, to try to understand his appeal and I just don't get it, and that makes me sad.
To be honest, my most cherished Prince memory barely had to do with me. One time we had to get flowers from a flower shop for an event at my church. I volunteered because I love the smell of flower shops. The piano player (who is gay) rode along with me. I turned on the radio and Little Red Corvette was playing, so we listened. I asked him if he was a big fan of Prince, and he tells me that he used to be. "What happened that made you dislike him?", to which he replied in his cute gay accent "Nigga got weird, girl" Every time I listen to Prince now, I hear him say that and just laugh.
To be honest, my most cherished Prince memory barely had to do with me. One time we had to get flowers from a flower shop for an event at my church. I volunteered because I love the smell of flower shops. The piano player (who is gay) rode along with me. I turned on the radio and Little Red Corvette was playing, so we listened. I asked him if he was a big fan of Prince, and he tells me that he used to be. "What happened that made you dislike him?", to which he replied in his cute gay accent "Nigga got weird, girl" Every time I listen to Prince now, I hear him say that and just laugh.
Don't feel bad. You don't and shouldn't stan for every famous person.
That's because they want to show they are proudly ignorant on a subject because they think it's cool. They don't respect the topic being discussed and want to set off a proudly ignorant beacon to see how many posters jump in to say "Hey, are these people speaking a foreign language to you too?". Despite having multiple abilities to search at their finger tips, they either refuse to use it when seeing the subject or have already used it and still choose to display the ignorance from not knowing the subject at first glance. And they assume that a bunch of ignorant people like them will come to the signal and jump in to confirm their "it's cool to be ignorant on this" status. If the thread was about PS4K coverage, no one is going to come in and go "What's the PS4K?" because they know they would get clowned for multiple pages for being under a rock.
Cindi Mayweather
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I feel bad for saying it because people are mourning him, though. Like I'm worried it comes across as insensitive or even "edgy".
TheBlackMarvel
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You weren't disrespectful and you have an anecdote that makes you smile.
You're ok.
TangerineCloud
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dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
It's cool. It gets insensitive when someone goes into a thread for the purpose of saying, "Ya know I didn't think he was all that." That is someone trying to get some attention or nowadays someone who has no self awareness or social skills.
Cindi Mayweather
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Any suggestions to help me appreciate Prince? I've listened to Purple Rain but have never seen it.
I'm not saying I have to. It's mostly because what people describe of Prince sounds up my alley musically, but listening to it never connected with me. It's less about me worshipping an idol, which has little interest to me, and more about appreciating a legendary musician, as a massive musichead.
I'm not saying I have to. It's mostly because what people describe of Prince sounds up my alley musically, but listening to it never connected with me. It's less about me worshipping an idol, which has little interest to me, and more about appreciating a legendary musician, as a massive musichead.
Forearm Star
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How are people that stupid.. How!?
Gordon Shumway
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dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I can give you a few albums to listen to -
Prince (1979) Debut album
Lovesexy (1988) Though this is an annoying listen. It was released as one track so you have to listen to it all, couldn't skip track to track. I it has split it up by now.
Batman (1989) - Batdance was a bit of a mess, IMO, but the rest of the album was good
Sign 'O' the Times (1987) - IMO, his best album. Most varied as well. Rock, pop, funk, ballads, soul were all on this one.
Graffiti Bridge (1990) - The soundtrack to a terrible movie. Pretty much a soul/funk celebration.
Parade (1986) - Another soundtrack. A funk album along with some experimental tracks.
In the 90s is when I pretty much checked out. There were some highlights, but I couldn't really sit through an entire album. Interestingly enough some of that stuff resonates more with now than back then.
bobbychalkers
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thanks for the well wishes. she did most of the talking but I think I made a good impression. Time to wind down with some JoJo, Empire and Star Fox
Big Baybee
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NOPD saying Will Smith may have fired his gun first. What a twist.
How does someone this stupid survive until middle age?
Looks like folks are already sharing this with her employer.
I think it would be hard to appreciate his old stuff from the 80s now if you didn't grow up with it. Ex: My parents put me onto Prince, so a lot of my appreciation comes from nostalgia, in addition to being able to listen to new stuff and go "he got that from Prince" or "Timbaland took that sample from Delirious". Maybe try watching the Purple Rain movie?
No matter how much the news covers this story, this will never not confuse me.
Alligatorjandro
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Damn
Gordon Shumway
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I hear you, Kreed..I don't think I've ever googled as fast as I just did before lol.
The Faceless Master
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Explains why the other guys attorneys seemed so confident.
I wonder how much of a talking to he got before they let him in the room.
You will stand with the President and his wife and you will shut the fuck up and not say a word I swear to god.
bobbychalkers
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Still unnecessarily tragic all around. The NRA/2nd Amendment supporters fever dream of everybody being armed will lead to a lot of situations like this.
Cindi Mayweather
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Right? It makes sense. I'm an 85 baby, and people say most of his best output was from the 80's. I saw Batman in theaters and rented it a billion times like any 80's/90's kid but I don't remember the soundtrack at all. I guess I never felt the need to listen to Prince, because if I had funk, I had Rick James, James Brown, Funkadelic, George Clinton, Brothers Johnson, or the Isley Brothers. If I wanted soul, I had Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Al Green. If I wanted to dance, I've got Chic, Michael Jackson, Sister Sledge, Evelyn "Champagne" King, and Ohio Players (fuck Fire though, most overplayed song ever). If I wanted empowerment, there was Gil Scott-Heron. When I was learning to deal with my sexuality, there was Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill.
So it makes sense, that growing up with all this music, and listen to artists directly influenced by Prince like my name sake Janelle Monae, I'm not going to see what's special about him because his innovations had been taken time and time again from people inspired by him that he doesn't feel fresh or even interesting to me.
I was big on MJ growing up. So I understand how people feel about Prince's passing. I'm betting there's plenty of people who feel the same way about MJ as I do about Prince.
I'm not a very big Prince fan either and that's as much as I'll say out of respect.
Cindi Mayweather
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I'll give Sign O' The Times a listen tonight after work, thanks.
Alligatorjandro
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You don't have to like someone's work just because.
Yeah, you don't even fuck with Sea Biscuit like that
Kid Kamikaze10
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Yo, why the fuck did Birdman go to the Breakfast Club in the first place?
Why?
Why?
Alligatorjandro
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You ain't even a fan of the bible when you helped write it
I doubt he even knows, dude doesn't sound all there
Cindi Mayweather
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Because he's a fuccboi manchild with a big ego. He doesn't know any better, his tattoo ink seeped into his brain.
True, but I also feel like my opinion comes from a place of ignorance if I'm not even knowledgeable about his other famous albums.
Cause in my original version I had Jesus as a Beta class mutant, but they rewrote him as Omega class
User 73706
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slayven, you would cape for the old testament
From listening to the full show today, it sounds like the Breakfast Club interviews and Charlamagne's adlibs have started hurting Birdman's business with artists not wanting to sign to Cash Money anymore (LOL if he thought they were hurting him before...) and the Breakfast Club wanted no parts of Birdman unless he came to do an interview (they claim he was calling them before the interview wanting to have a face to face with Charlamagne off camera/etc... and they weren't having it).
FeenixRising
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God struck down a man for pulling out.
How do you think Slay stayed alive this long?
Cindi Mayweather
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These memes are killing me, lmao
Cindi Mayweather
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Seeing how small Birdman is in that pic, now I see why he's the way he is...
edit: Birdman is 5'11?!
bobbychalkers
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All jokes aside, a well done Cash Money movie would be dope if it weren't influenced by anybody a part of it. I'm sure there is some deep shit somewhere in the background.
Morning.
Morning
*waves* Hiya!
Morning to you.
Hapy birhtday JLynn
Break a leg Bobby.
Regular ass Optimus, D game is wack if you ain't getting Power Master Prime
Speaking of birdman, I saw like 2 weeks back that his baby mama got caught up in that tag the sponsor shit.Seeing how small Birdman is in that pic, now I see why he's the way he is...
edit: Birdman is 5'11?!
taking shit's on video to appeal to some alleged (read: fake) rich Saudis cropophiliac sensibilities
A hot gotdamn mess....literally.
wait what?
FeenixRising
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