DISQUS

honestly - EVERYTHING is a rip off of the music that came before it, because EVERY ARTIST is influenced by someone. even your FAVORITE artist was inspired and/or influenced by someone else (genius or not). so to call the TITLE of this shit a rip off - is totally reaching. i'd also say - listen to Saul's shit before judging it.

NOW - i don't know if i agree with the comment that Saul is attempting to do for black music what Bowie did for pop at that time. I mean...yeah, Saul is black - and yes, this is music...but HONESTLY...what fuckin' color is MUSIC!? Is Saul a hip-hop purist? YES. Does Saul do black or white music. No! Music is music, period. To me - and I'm not bashing whoever said this above - but to classify music as black, white or whatever...to me - thas one of the biggest reasons people don't fuck with certain genres. Like...I'm a black man - and most black people I know won't fuck with rock music because they feel that's WHITE music. Had a woman say that to me two days ago at work when i was speaking about TV on the Radio's disc...and I thought that was the most absurd shit I'd ever heard. And like I told her...I'm making a hip-hop album right now...but I got a lil' rock influence in my shit...so she probably will skip those tracks. I think...DAMN I'm sorry this is so long...but I think - Americans are the only people in the world who classify music as being a color. And that's some funny shit to me. Nevertheless...I have Saul's first two joints - and I'd say 99.99% of the rappers out there could NOT fuck wit this dude lyrically. Because 98.99% of the rappers out there ain't INTELLIGENT enough to fuck with him. The other one percent - I'ma give 'em a pass.