cobl04
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Awful title but you’ll see my point soon.
Name some songs that are heavy, hard, fast, intense, fierce, anything that wouldn’t necessarily be regarded as “emotional”, ie, you wouldn’t expect them to make you cry, but they do.
Playing To Pimp a Butterfly today I realised The Blacker The Berry makes me cry. It is just so fucking intense. At two points - first it’s the start, the transition from Complexion - “Barefoot babies with no care / teenage gun-toters that don’t play fair, should I get out the car? / I don’t see Compton, I see something much worse / the land of the landmines, the hell that’s on earth” - going into that blacker-than-midnight beat, and then the the tailend of the final verse
So no matter how much I like to preach with the Panthers
Or tell Georgia State “Marcus Garvey got all the answers”
Or try to celebrate February like it’s my B-Day
Or eat watermelon, chicken, and Kool-Aid on weekdays
Or jump high enough to get Michael Jordan endorsements
Or watch BET cause urban support is important
So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street when gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me?! HYPOCRITE
It is just so fucking raw and powerful, it brings tears to my eyes every time. I have a similar reaction to B.O.B., again just because it is so fucking fierce, from the jam-packed music - slamming drums, melting electric guitar, demented church organ, two incredibly fast verses from 3000 and Big Boi, and then it just keeps fucking building until the monstrous, apocalyptic “POWER/MUSIC/ELECTRIC/REVIVAL” refrain at the end. It’s so huge, and was such a perfect opener on their reunion shows, it just melts your face and reminds you that no one can match them.
So yeah, any songs like this that move you to tears, even though they aren’t traditionally songs that would do that?
Name some songs that are heavy, hard, fast, intense, fierce, anything that wouldn’t necessarily be regarded as “emotional”, ie, you wouldn’t expect them to make you cry, but they do.
Playing To Pimp a Butterfly today I realised The Blacker The Berry makes me cry. It is just so fucking intense. At two points - first it’s the start, the transition from Complexion - “Barefoot babies with no care / teenage gun-toters that don’t play fair, should I get out the car? / I don’t see Compton, I see something much worse / the land of the landmines, the hell that’s on earth” - going into that blacker-than-midnight beat, and then the the tailend of the final verse
So no matter how much I like to preach with the Panthers
Or tell Georgia State “Marcus Garvey got all the answers”
Or try to celebrate February like it’s my B-Day
Or eat watermelon, chicken, and Kool-Aid on weekdays
Or jump high enough to get Michael Jordan endorsements
Or watch BET cause urban support is important
So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street when gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me?! HYPOCRITE
It is just so fucking raw and powerful, it brings tears to my eyes every time. I have a similar reaction to B.O.B., again just because it is so fucking fierce, from the jam-packed music - slamming drums, melting electric guitar, demented church organ, two incredibly fast verses from 3000 and Big Boi, and then it just keeps fucking building until the monstrous, apocalyptic “POWER/MUSIC/ELECTRIC/REVIVAL” refrain at the end. It’s so huge, and was such a perfect opener on their reunion shows, it just melts your face and reminds you that no one can match them.
So yeah, any songs like this that move you to tears, even though they aren’t traditionally songs that would do that?