LB is not even a conscious group IMO. I don’t hear them rapping about the war, Katrina, Bush, the problems of they’re local community often if ever. The rap about the keepin they head above water and goin through everyday life which two white girls from Canada can’t even try to understand. Now if he was wrong about the comment about ole girl then he was just wrong. But it sounds like that they have a deeper personal issue and she got feelings for dude.

Getting back to the jump-off point though; why is everybody putin LB in a box they didn’t ask for. Shit. How come you never hear people saying that The Game is a conscious mc. Most of his first lp was concious and had many historical references. Take Black Wall Street. People don’t label Field Mob or David Banner conscious either. Banner is very conscious about his community and Field Mob is concious though even more poetic. What about “Georgia” and “Blacker the Berry”. Just because they got country accents don’t mean they are dumbasses.

Fuck it though. black men get stereotyped way too much in this country and probably way too much in other countries and I’m sure Canada ain’t immune. If he was being sexist then he was. But we don’t know for sure.

Magazine people are stupid. “As if his whole shtick isn’t based on him being an intelligent alternative to hip-hop’s status quo.” Have any of you ever really listened to Phonte and Little Brother? Or are you all just basing on what you read about them elsewhere?

I swear, while you’re better off in this country if you know how to read, people would have much more free minds if they were illiterate. From a very young age, we’re taught to take everything that published as facts and truths. They give us textbooks and force us to accept it all as fact and regurgitate it on tests.

All that ends up training us to do is take anything written or published anywhere as the truth the rest of our lives. So people read stuff by idiot music industry scribes and don’t even think to question it. It’s worse with indie rock fans, who believe anything they read about some moody cracker dude being a “genuis” or someone else “sucking” or whatever, but it’s the same with lame hip-hop fans and writers.

Little Brother is a group that just makes honest, soulful rap music about their lives, thoughts, and experiences. They don’t whine excessively or spend all their time complaining about other rappers or try to sound smart and intelligent. They mostly just have creative fun.

Being smart isn’t their “schtick.” They just happen to be smart people making music. So indirectly it’s smart stuff (not book smart, not street smart, just generally smart). But they don’t try to force their intelligence on anyone, and you get the impression they don’t even realize how smart they are, which probably why their music is so good.

On the other hand, most journalists think that they are a lot smarter than they really are (the art-student epidemic), so their stuff just comes off as stupid.

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