Last Friday as CoCo posed I asked if she had heard (and assuming she would have had and also liked) "Otis" but she said "eer". I was a bit disappointed with her answer as I love it and recommend the Deluxe Edition of Watch The Throne
But If your not a hip-hop fan the tracks below are more pop... or just check out the video
I had alwaysplanned on writing a review when Otis first dropped, however I held off waiting for thefull album but can't be objective...
I looked aroundlast week and was genuinely surprised that one reviewer found the message of the video "distasteful" at that time of civil unrest...
The messagesome heard was after The Lords and MP expenses scandal, after a former seniormember of The UK Prime Minister's team was found to be implicated in a police corruptionscandal, who's tentacles seem to be reaching deep into the ruling and upperclasses, as David Cameron admits defeat over Bankers' bonuses (Iwish I could join their discreet clubs and fraternities), it was all bound to happen... There is a thesis that we have are all becoming too cynical seeing how thosewho rule over us never seem to have to bother to play by the rules...
So why shouldthe mass bother with the rules? And what about the most depressed by the way society is going andonly want in some way to express this by taking consumer goods in an desire tocatch up? Even if most of their rap is imagined, some look to Jay-z forinspiration...
The problem forthe British working classes and the new emerging underclass, getting theirhigh is usually illegal and attracts draconian sentencing…
I bet the MP'scrowd all danced and laughed along at the Bullingdon Club to London’s Burningby The Clash, back in the day... Karma's a bitchMr.Cameron...
The best reviewI’ve seen is by Jacqueline Springer, academic of black music, which can beheard here for a few more days... Please scrub 5 min's into the program to hearher >>>
'Who ever thought that they could take it that far'>>>
Beyoncé Knowles...
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