WOW! That page does NOT render even 50% right under Opera!
But good to hear that that it's getting some attention finally!
@mikrucio:
Nice blanket statement pal... I don't know this guy, Timbaland, although he doesn't strike me much like a talented guy, but like I said, I don't know much about him, and granted I don't really like or want to listen to rap (with DMX being the only exception), but a lot of these guys do have talent, maybe not in classical piano, but musical talent. I think it's the attitude they have that ruins true credibility/respectibility a lot of times. Which sucks, especially for them.
At the same time its partially understandable... I mean if I lived in a ghetto and life around me seemed biased, predetermined to be unsuccessful, and hopeless (no way to become a success as in the typical interpretation of success of a modern society), then I can see myself acting as if nothing matters and I don't care about anything and anybody, my life included. Then I can see myself having such an attitude. Then I can see myself resorting to grasping anything that gives me power, like guns and drug trade and blood money.
Of course, fortunately (or actually unfortunately because primarily it's not done out of pity, but for exploitational reasons) for these kids, there's MTV and various other recording/publishing companies and their money-hungry execs and suits, and they see plenty of $$$$ to be made when these kids are turned into "stars". So the vicious cycle continues: poor black kids exploited by rich white guys, the only difference being that nowadays they have to give'em a "cut" of the riches (which many call it "giving them opportunities", which it's not). A small cut to become a slave of a different sort. Perhaps it's so. Perhaps not.
Anyways, feel free to ignore this monologue, I just had to write it
