{"id":2590,"date":"2018-05-09T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:13:24","slug":"musicians-are-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/05\/musicians-are-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians are gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/05\/im-not-black-im-kanye\/559763\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last Ta-nehisi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cwhen Kanye West greeted me, chopping up the Jackson 5, drawing from Bobby \u201cBlue\u201d Bland, pulling from David Ruffin, arrived with Jay-Z, an MC who dated back to the Golden Age,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting how one\u2019s occupation can shift perception. At the start of his article, Ta-nehisi speaks of Michael Jackson about the way I felt it. But once he talks about Kanye, I\u2019m out of sync. I was diving deeper and deeper into music at that time and I didn\u2019t feel those beats the same way.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t connect with Kanye\u2019s output. Sampling the past wasn\u2019t special either. I shrugged.<\/p>\n<p>The real Gods and geniuses of music are still from that 60s-70s-80s trilogy when musicianship, technology and (almost) total absence of social media and shallowness allowed people to reach out for the stars, sonically. It\u2019s still so true. Maybe even more now. There are more emotions and soul in one George Duke song intro than on an entire album of contemporary pop music.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll probably enjoy and study the gods forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Ta-nehisi. \u201cwhen Kanye West greeted me, chopping up the Jackson 5, drawing from Bobby \u201cBlue\u201d Bland, pulling from David Ruffin, arrived with Jay-Z, an MC who dated back to the Golden Age,\u201d It\u2019s interesting how one\u2019s occupation can shift perception. At the start of his article, Ta-nehisi speaks of Michael Jackson about the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}