I suppose that when new music comes out, I should take it as art, and not let it offend me. Well, then, when the art itself gets all preachy and semantic, then, perhaps, it becomes a different story.
This rapper named Scienz of Life put out this album this year called Change Ya Views. On the cover, he’s sitting there with a vague, extremely pretentious expression on his face that isn’t a smile (so another eternity of J. Cole, in other words), under dread locks and apparently presuming himself to be some mystical, prophetic savior of the world.
His album, Change Ya Views, stands at a gargantuan 21 minutes, anyway. So in the future, “views” will be really simple and homogenized, perhaps, according to his dictum. He chose to slot the title track “Change Ya Views” at number four and the song comes in with this sampled female vocal which sounds like it’s on the verge of a cheap, fake orgasm, like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally without the emphasis, kind of.
The song opens with Scienz of Life telling us to “Open your third eye blind”. What’s that, like the jewel case to my Third Eye Blind CD? Excuse me, Scienz of Life, I couldn’t help but notice under your extremely humble and modest moniker that you seem to be generalizing white people into being narrow-minded and callous, as if we all voted to approve the police brutality incidents. Also, I don’t particularly appreciate the insult to Third Eye Blind, which happens to be a band that wrote great music and put a humanistic tinge on their lyrics, lunging numerous times to help those in need, instead of the fake, superficial model of imperialistic culture, or whatever it is you’re trying to make it out as.
This 21-minute album from Scienz of Life is a pile of heaping dog-sh**… at one point he says “Stop endangering black women / What’s the matter dude?”, whereupon he proceeds to offer exactly no clue as to what the He** he is talking about. The logical fallacy at work here would be multiple: oversimplification, in his apparent charade that all white people are guilty of endangering black women, and straw man, as the enemy he’s setting up here is apparently fake, judging by his complete lack of explanation or identification thereof.
I mean, he’s just a fake dude. I guess it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But the fact that he’s allowed to get away with this shallow finger-pointing and generalization of white people shows me that, at least in some sectors, we’re living in a societal double standard where whites are guilty until proven innocent and black people assume this automatic moral authority over the world, even if they don’t even really know what the fu** they’re trying to say.
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