Word: realnessã
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Despite this penchant for imitation, Kweller seems concerned for most of On My Way with the “realness?? of his life; he defiantly yells, “Tell me all the rules, girl / I just wanna get’em wrong,” and notes of a lover, “Yeah, you are living life the way you feel, and that is real.” It’s when this earnestness reaches the right balance with Kweller’s admiration of his musical predecessors that the finer moments of the album...
...biggest problem with the acts most often associated with “realness?? in hip-hop—Jurassic 5, Common, Blackalicious and so on—is that the idea of realness itself is all they ultimately represent. Common’s Like Water For Chocolate was meant to be a paragon of “soul,” but its Soulquarian tracks were so calculatedly proper that Common’s substance got buried in their style. “The Light” is moving enough, but there’s also a smugly...
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