Defsounds

" Tainted love in the music business
People they lose they brain just to get up in this
Let’s be a star for day, everything in life is just ok
People say things they don’t really wanna say
Hey but it’s ok cause your a star for the day
People a smile at you when they really wanna frown
Well a that’s just the way tainted folk get down "
- Slum Village -

I’m beginning to notice a pattern here. The fake, "decepticons", the misleaders, the gamers, liars. Why is it so complicated to be real to one’s self.

The Lime-Light
The Front.

Everyone’s popping bottles in the club, who’s paying rent?
Seriously… If I find another chain wearing, bottle popping, groupie fucking, escalade driving broke as a joke dude, I’m going to die of laughter.
Pay some bills. Buy some groceries.
( at the end of the day, all they have is what’s on their person & not much more )

The music industry, portrays an image of glitz and glam.
Reality is not a music video, and 90% of the people whom appear to have it all, truly have nothing compared to the rest of the world.

I couldn’t even begin to count the foolish thing’s I have witnessed, since I began working in this "industry". Rapping about the coupes you’re rolling in, but truthfully you have a bus pass. True story, fake it until you make it? Possibly.

Fake chains, Leased or Rented luxury Cars, Comping bottles, Naive Groupies on your arm. Please… spare me, all that glitters ain’t gold.
But this is what society want’s to see & believe. So it’s continued.

At the end of the day, these rappers, athletes, actors, go home to the same things that most of us possess, if not less. They have their bored moments, and become adjusted to their lives, just as we have.

Spending all their money to just front the appearance of having money.

Selling themselves to the mainstreams wants and needs. Since when has being an artist lost the creative aspect. No one’s making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

And you know, art as commerce, doesn’t really make too much sense, they don’t go together. Art isn’t meant to be mass produced. A lot of artists have turned into puppets of these major labels. Act this way, do this, wear that, go here, date them.

"But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself."
Talib Kweli

Even those who’re trying to be "different" end up being the "same" at the end of the day. They’re all trying to achieve one thing. "Success"! But what is you’re definition of Success. It is when our vision of what make’s us truly successful changes. Is wealth you’re definition? Wasn’t your first dream to share your music & art with the world? But not it’s turned into the love for money, no longer the love for music.

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