Arn't I A Woman?

I like Crime Mob a whole lot. For anyone who doesn’t know they were a rap collective from Atlanta Georgia, probably most famous for “Knuck if u Buck” and “Rock Yo Hips”, and my personal favorite “Circles”. Crime Mob’s sound is very gritty, the production fast-paced and jolting. (I don’t really know anything about musical production or how to describe the sounds I hear. ) A lot of hip hop production and instrumentals forgo the use of the diatonic scale traditionally seen in Western music. Leroi Jones traces hip hop music back to blues music, blues music back to field music, field music back to slave hymns, slave hymns back to traditional West African music. A lot of this music manipulates instrumentals into sounds you can’t hit on the diatonic scale, most notably mimicking human voices, and uses rhythms that are based on a totally different framework for musical creation. (See: ‘Blues People'.) Sometimes in modern music pop and hip hop become intertwined, a sort of melting

Everyone has always hated John Mayer. Long before his playboy interviews when he declared Jennifer Love Hewitt’s body was a wonderland, if you heard the name John Mayer you probably thought things like ‘egomaniacal asshole”, or “ untalented jerk.” He showed all the signs of a monster in the making. You just knew it was gonna happen. It’s a slippery slope when you are John Mayer, because you have maybe a 1% chance of not becoming a total lunatic. His transformation was complete following his highly publicized interview in Playboy in which he publically sexualized the women he dated and made racist and just generally offensive comments. It went from ‘oh it’s really fun to make fun of this guy and his stupid guitar and hair’ to ‘wow this dude is a sexist, racist awful human being.’ Here’s one of the LESS offensive comments from said interview: “I come on very strong. I am a very…I’m just very. V-E-R-Y. And if you can’t handle very, then I’m a douchebag. But I think the world needs a