Sunday, March 29, 2009

Shad: I Heard You Had A Voice Like An Angel/Psalm 137

I can't believe I haven't posted this song yet. I heard it about a year ago and had to instantly go buy the cd. The song has one of the most gripping beats you'll hear these days. To me this song is about having true talent but getting caught up in the fame and the money and having it ruin your music . "Had a voice like an angel, now you score the drama scenes, the comedy's the fact, we enact what you want to be", a great line that i believe to be about rappers becoming movie stars and how it's somewhat ironic. "Had some old songs still stuck in your memory, distorted though, so you sort of re-assembled melodies and fine-tune and turned em into single after single, in this industry you built so sinfully simple for, you to write cuz, a song is what your life was, the destiny of stars is their light must, fight dusk, with sparks of brilliance to ignite us, and of all the billions of stars, you were by far the brightest, I heard you had a voice like an angel, now it's just a light hush...", basically commenting on how artists take other peoples music and change it and turn it into theirs for the money and fame. "They want vessels void and dark as space, fools wanna make stars instead of music that's smart or special, because art at a level that's real can be harder to peddle", sad but true that the music industry makes more money when people talk about cars, money, and all that is cliche in the rap world instead of making music thats meaningfull and beautiful. Anyways be sure to check out Shad, an up and coming rapper out of canada.