Drop The World
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Maybe I need a late pass on this because I get all my news from J-Smooth but in the above clip much loathed conservative pundit Sean Hannity gets T-Pain to record a drop for his show and claim “Conservative Victory 2010.” T-Pain, whose gaffe we’re going to graft onto the rap world for the purpose of this post even though he’s only vaguely a rapper, later responded, admitting that he’d been tricked into doing the drop and then running that same line about how politics have no effect on the people that I often run when I really just don’t want to talk about politics.
Here’s the thing. While Teddy may or may not actually care about politics he definitely does not care about the words that come out of his mouth. They are but empty droplets in a torrential downpour of meaningless shout outs. I bet you could get T-Pain to cosign a Klan rally with the right amount of subtle and creative script writing. This is not necessarily reflective of ignorance. Irresponsibility, sure, but mostly simple burn out. There must be nothing more tedious for an artist than the need to constantly record shout outs to things they’ve never heard of. Eyes glaze over then you say something about Tivo if it’s a television drop, something about hits if it’s for youtube. It’s unclear then why this behavior continues. You’d think somewhere down the line an artist would sack the fuck up and be like “I don’t know what that is. Why am I shouting it out?” But maybe it’s the false idea that all forms of networking hold value that prevails. That someday Sean Hannity will return the favor. I’m not sure. (more…)
