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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
MP3 Blue Scholars - "Paul Valéry"
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:05 AM
The Scholars are back with a new joint, named after a dead French guy with whom I'm not at all familiar. But before he croaked he apparently said:
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” — Paul Valéry
-which Geo jacked for the hook, as Sabz flips Owl City's bubbly "Fireflies" for the beat. In the first verse, Geologic bucks some timely shots at the out of control rap trend of being from/in outer space instead of staying down to earth "where the rest of us work"(is this some wave-on-wave violence?); in the second, the lyrical bozack is reserved for more typical bugaboos of Prometheus Brown—guilt-driven cause-chasers and opportunist ass-kissers. Download this jammy jam below and get yourself ready for the Blue Scholars Double Feature March 26-27.
1
Totally on board with the sentiment – but, respectfully, the beat is a little bit UPS-commercial to me. It evokes words like "synergy" and "connectivity." The earth is full of dirt and I hope the remix is too.
2
Ideally, science fiction is a "ghetto genre" that transforms the future into something more egalitarian or liberatory through advocating empathy along with technological progress. Hip-hop is a genre musical form often from the ghetto that dialectically creates a future from recurrent material harships of contemporary life juxtaposed with a hope for human progress. They both consume junk culture and personal activism, and are often dismissed for not being "authentic" technologically or menacing to the polite, restrained values of the status quo.
My favorite French Paul, Paul Virilio:
"You can't win a war if you can't recognize an enemy."
My favorite French Paul, Paul Virilio:
"You can't win a war if you can't recognize an enemy."
3
That should be "hardships" not "harships," and "reflect personal activism from the writer/creator."
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