Why is it that when you are African-American, black whatever you want to call it and you don’t listen to rap music you are too ‘white’? I must have missed that memo can someone forward that to me? Well I listen to what makes me feel happy. And rap now is about but shot and being ‘locked up’. I mean how am I supposed to react to hearing that? I am supposed to get up and shout with joy or something . And if that isn’t enough most songs now are calling women everything but a woman. I’m not saying you have to change into a saint but I mean aren’t you supposed to respect your listeners? But when I hear Mika who is from London because his song Love Today makes me smile and then Panic! At The Disco is from suburban Las Vegas because they have something to say and something for me to think about. Like their song ‘I constantly thank God for Esteban’ which is about all of the hypocritical cliches of the church. And when I listen to songs like Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston I love the beat and his voice but at the same time he talks about how he ‘went away for his first crime’ I mean it was a great song without talking about breaking the law. Especially so blatantly it would be different if he was talking about being in jail in the song but the song was about Beautiful Girls. DUH! So why would you talk about going to jail the FIRST time. Whether he did that or not it makes no logical since to be talking about it like it was a good thing. I mean it’s not like he was talking about revolution in the world no he’s just talking about going away. Akon is like that too. I joked with my Mom saying that he jinxed himself because his albums were called Konvict and Trouble and his first single was ‘Locked up’ then you are kind of set for life… in jail. So on that note think about how you periceve music even my parents are like that and I know they love me but GOD do they talk about how ‘Do you have any black people on you iPod?’ And so what if I don’t then I really don’t care because I know about the classics and I know what I am ‘missing out on’ so I’m straight.

XOXO

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