Coachella/MMJ Press & Reviews

[LaurieBlue]

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There are 4 very short clips from Coachella 2006 on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=my+morning+jacket&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

OMG..Nope..hadn't seen those.  Such a beautiful thing.  Thanks!

Laurie

[thebigbang]

i think you have to know where Kanye is coming from to understand him.  he dropped out of college and worked shitty jobs in pursuit of his dream . . .   he heard from so many people that he didn't have enough talent or that it was a pipe dream

Hmmm.  While reading this, I couldn't help but think: didn't Jim James do much the same . . . without becoming an arrogant jerk.  So I don't know if that excuses West's behavior.

The song "At Dawn" would seem to offers Jim's commentary on the "follow your dreams" thing.

[peanut butter puddin surprise]

I disagree John.  Compairing Kanye and Eminem to Vanilla Ice?  Vanilla Ice had a shelf life of, what, 6 months?  Come on, man. Eminem has been around for 7 or 8 years, and after each album his fan base grew. Nevermind the fact that his 1st album is his only real good one.  Kanye acts like he's top of the world partially because he is.  He's an award winning rapper and producer.  He's producing songs and albums for some very talented artists.  I'm not even saying that his 'I'm a living god'  attitude he has is proper.  All I originally said was I like his music.Vanillia Ice was a gimick.  Is it that you don't care for hiphop, John?

I don't care much for today's popular version of "hip hop", if you want to call it that.  Congratulations-boasting MC's, how 4th grade.  there's nothing intelligent, or even entertaining about what passes for hip hop these days.  Blackalicious, on the other hand, is both.  They effortlessly make the crunk coming off of MTV sound like a broken VCR rewinding.  

I'm totally old skool on hip hop.  To me, it's got to have a message.  West, Em, and the like will pass the way of the dinosaur.