Lil Wayne Sued Over Stones Song:
When I read that the self-proclaimed "Greatest Rapper Alive" was being sued by "The Greatest Rock-N-Roll Copycats Alive" it made me cackle and reflect in amusement...
How can grave robbers sue the rightful next of kin for reclaiming the body of their stolen loved one???
America has a problem with reality, more specifically White Amerikkka has a problem with reality...B.B. King was once asked what he thought of the "British Invasion" (the influx of British Rockers to America in the mid-1960s) in general and the Beatles in particular and he replied that all they did was "re-import the blues"...
Many folks don't realize that the rock and roll group The Rolling Stones got their name from the Muddy Waters song, "Rollin' Stone"...By the way the popular pop-culture magazine "Rolling Stone" got their name from the same song...As a matter of fact the first place the Rolling Stones wanted to go in America was the southside of Chicago to find Blues Gurus Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf...
It is a fact that many Black Blues and Rock-n-Roll Greats used to travel to London, England to perform their craft...After performing in concert halls and clubs, many of these under appreciated and invisible American Music Giants like Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley, and B.B. King could be found on Piccadilly Square sharing their trade secrets with eager and ambitious yet broke white boys such as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton, folks who would soon eclipse their idols in fame and commercial success if not actual mastery of the music art form...To these appreciative young white turks these Black men, seen by Amerikkkan Jim Crow Apartheid as 3/5ths human, were Gods with unlimited genius...
Even the Rock-n-Roll God Little Richard on his legendary England Tours in the early 1960s
allowed both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to open for his shows when these bands were literally living in vans without any prospects and sharing baskets of fish and chips between them...
So fast forward now to the present some 40 plus years later...It can be reasoned that The Rolling Stones are basically trying to defame the rightful heir to the throne of the 'true' Kings Of Rock-N-Roll...
This is truly sad indeed...How much money do these Rich Grumpy Old White Men need???
I am not by any means defending the music and persona of Lil Wayne, but the fact remains that we as a people still can't recognize when we have been bamboozled and had by a system that is ridiculous and absurd if not out right disturbing...The history of exploited black musicians in the music industry is as long as a DVD uncut version of a Michael Mann movie...
We as Black folks or Negroes or whatever don't support our cultural heroes/icons...When our icons reach 40, they are deemed irrelevant, obsolete, out of mind and out of sight...Thank God for VH 1 with their 'celebreality t.v. shows', otherwise Flavor Flav would be homeless and toothless...Meanwhile The Rolling Stones are still rolling in the dough nearing 70 performing to sold out arenas worldwide...
The questions remains...How much blood do these cultural vampires/vultures need to live forever???
Your truly even you think musical genius is measured by record sales, radio play and awards,
The Outraged Negro
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