CLIVE DAVIS CONS BLACK PEOPLE
Alicia Keys, your favorite not mine.
Know why?
Alicia is not hip or funky in anyway. She’s boring. Alicia is cute but this is not a beauty pageant, is it? Didn’t she have to get a nose job too?
Clive Davis discovered Alicia (you must read the book “Hit Man” to really know Clive Davis). I did and guess what? Dude’s a crook. Clive has been granted by some the title “genius” for discovering black talent. In other words Clive has a ear for music.
Fuck Clive, he was lucky for signing Sly Stone ask Sly? He’ll tell you. White people give Clive credit for Janis Joplin, I didn’t black singers were already doing that. Janis did nothing new. Janis is like Eminem, they came on board I never knew they gave out medals for that did you?
Then there’s Earth Wind & Fire. They were good, don’t get it fucked up; but I loved the Bar-Kays and the Ohio Players much more.
Know why?
They had more funk, they were street. Who do you think Larry Blackmon from Cameo got his style from? Even Lionel Richie was biting the Ohio Players, just ask Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers? He’ll tell you. That’s why Anthony and his band did a remake of Fire by the Ohio Players.
Clive Davis always watered down black music so white people could understand it. So white people would buy it and later learn to imitate it, ask Michael Bolton? Some people will speak out loud about Jazz music and compare Kenny G. to the late great John Coltrane. What are those people smoking? Gimmie some!!!
Then Clive gave us Whitney Houston. I was never a fan. Whitney’s fucking boring, her crack habit was more entertaining than her singing. Whitney came out during the era of bands like Slave, Al Hudson, One Way & Cameo .Who do you think black people were listening too? The real black people were not listening to Whitney Houston, they were into funk. Whitney was a part of the 80′s Italian era which included Celebration a huge hit single back then for Kool and the Gang. That’s when Kool got a new singer named J.T. Taylor. No more Funky stuff or songs like Jungle Boogie. Kool and his Gang sold out. They were following Lionel Richie, ask Walter Orange from the Commodores?
Whitney was the black version of Cher and Celine Dion a fucking Vegas act. Now that’s not black is it? What do you think Alicia Keys is? She’s just like Whitney, neither can dance. Whitney and Alicia both have two left feet and they’re both bi-sexual, aren’t they? Both were discovered by Clive Davis, and they both use black people so their white audience can think they both have soul.
Guess what?
They don’t. When was the last time you got fly, sniffed some blow, okay fuck it that’s too much for you guys! Lets ask, when was the last time you smoked a joint, drank some Henny and hit the dance floor to a Alicia Keys song? When? The answer is never.
Know why?
Cuz Alicia Keys is boring. Alicia’s music is for depressed people which is most people in America right now. Isn’ it?
If I was that depressed I rather listen to Coltrane or Gil Scott at least its real.
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Hitmen = GREAT BOOK! Must read if you think you understand the music industry
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TONY Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 16:52
WHOSE THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK? JACKY WHAT THE CORRECT TITLE OF THE BOOK CALLED HITMAN OR HITMEN??????????????
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G Reply:
August 16th, 2010 at 17:15
“hitmen”… its about the music industry.. just google it or look on amazon books it there!
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Anonymous Reply:
July 5th, 2011 at 13:46
Very good read about the origins of the record industry and how it was corrupt.
I have a copy. It’s very interesting.
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Ike Reply:
July 5th, 2011 at 13:48
this comment was from Ike.
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Alicia keys is a good singer, but she only records those slow ass songs that grandparents can put on while they’re bonin’!!
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Ike Reply:
July 5th, 2011 at 13:49
I thought it was me. I have never been able to getinto Alicia Keyes.
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If you speak anymo real shit imma have to find you and shake ya mofo hand fool….
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jackyjasper Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 20:31
Sometimes I really try B!
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You’re absolute,Bar-Kays, Ohio Players, real funk.The music industry didn’t like or want Rap music, especially hardcore Gangsta Rap, because that shit is like crack to white people young and old.After hearing hardcore street Rap, alot of white people are hooked, even crackas be playin Rap music,Hip Hop in their cars, club, homes, businesses, because mostly all the bitch love it, in one form or another.
The only thing crusty crackas like clive don’t like, is that, Blacks invented the Rap music, and the Hip Hop Culture, and he hates the Black people in it.He preys on our weakest links,willing to drink his juice.
Likes others white people need to water it down, so
they can poorly imitate Black music,like latinos,asian
etc. do.
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[...] a DIY aesthetic by selling and giving away records on the street and at various garage shows. Clive Davis of Columbia records heard the buzz of three African American brothers making punk music (sound like [...]
Thank You for confirming what I’ve been saying all along! Although I liked Whitney’s voice (pre-crack)she was boring. Her videos, boring….Eminem (sigh)…ppl are beating me down with the stick trying to convince me that he is a dope MC. I think he sucks. I’m from the old school: Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J, Run DMC, KRS-One, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang, Kool Moe Dee, etc…when rap was new, innovative, fresh, made you think. He irks me……profoundly
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Jacky, I know that I’m late, but you are so on point!!!
I’m serious old school too. You are so right about the Ohio Players. I’ve been into them since the Westbound years. Them, War, Isleys, etc. EWF was okay. I only like their ballads. They never seemed to have the same funk as the others.
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jackyjasper Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 00:06
I worked with the Ohio Players & those cats are dope…& I agree with -u- their funk was different & most of us loved it…Rick James told me when we were in a studio session… that he took a lot of their style…
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jackyjasper Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 18:31
Preach!!!
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Geez, jacky, I just stumbled on your website by accident! Your ass knows some fucking music history P. I. M. P.! Your site is now I welcomed addition to my daily de-stress reading list! Still lookn at old posts! keep the new ones coming!!!!
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