THE LOST AND FOUND

You’re making ?uestlove sad and shit! For real though, he recently poured his heart out on his blog, letting out a lot of his frustrations. I guess when record sales aren’t at the level they rightfully should be at, one can only go so long without feeling discouraged. Presumably, this is especially true when acts like Soulja Boy are out there killin’ it in the sales department.

Speaking of depression, it definitely is a bit depressing to see that real music isn’t as widely popular as mainstream (production-value reliant) club bangers or whatever. That being said though, all this illustrates is that the majority of people right now generally prefer thoughtless, feel good jams over more meaningful laid back music. Ignorance is supposedly bliss, after all. A lot of people listen to music to escape from the world’s problems (and their own), rather than to hear someone summarize the world’s problems for them. Then again, people just like what they happen to like. In some cases they might shy away from an album like this for legitimate(?) reasons, and other times - let’s face it - it’s just a case of bad music taste.

I’m sure ?uesto has shaken off the funk he was in when he wrote all that (at least to some degree), but I’m sending out a big “keep your head up!” to dude anyway. You can’t expect everyone to recognize the real shit - if everyone knew what was up there would be no lames, and therefore, no one cool in comparison. Think about it, a world without cool people? F that noise, everyone plays their role.

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