Thursday, June 30, 2016

Bruh I'm An Artist

Ok, personally I consider myself an artist in a lot of ways, but I don't consider myself the "artist" type. When I use that term I mean those people that try to apply a science to their art. It can still look beautiful, it can still look amazing, but it's those people that make me want to shit myself in disgust. It's those same people that'll look down their nose at others that participate in a similar craft, you know why? Cause, these niggas be sophisticated yo, I mean they're straight deep with that line they drew, next to the other line, next to that BIG line that's at the bottom to fuck with your perception. I'll be upfront, I can be a music snob, but guess what? The same artists that I make fun of every now and then I also know for a fact make some sick shit. I listen to "unintelligent" music, I say it's unintelligent because half the time it's about the same content in hip hop, drugs sex and money. Guess what though? I can still appreciate that line that used some crazy wordplay, even if it's a played out content. Art is about expression, there's no right or wrong way there's only your way. Niggas these days be creating rules and criteria to judge art, when who the fuck has the right to do that? Some of you few readers that I don't have are probably wondering, why is he so heated right now? WHY RANDOMLY RANT? OBVIOUSLY I HAVE A REASON TO AND IT'S COMING! I was scrolling through facebook and saw a post by this guy in Art of Gloving. He's resharing a really good article to read on the gloving scene as of yet, but what he says with it is what got to me. He says gloving being mainstream is bad, that the newbies joining on make the scene look bad and do too many drugs. The way he worded it just struck me as, well, full of himself? snarky? narcissistic? Like I looked into this dude and he posts life feed Q and As that he does for about 15 minutes a piece that no one looks at, and he hasn't only done 2 or 3. Personally, I don't think drugs are the root of gloving like my friend Outlaw, but I do think they helped play a part. The gloving scene developed alongside or from the PLUR movement, it's another form of light/flow art. It has it's place in and outside of raves and festies, and could've been conceived by someone that never even touched a bowl or blunt, but I don't know Brian Lim. But, it's always been a favorite for potheads, for trippers, probably even for heroine addicts, in fact I knew a few that love that shit. Then, to say it makes the scene look bad, all the newbies, and the drugs. WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TALK? AIN'T NOBODY FUCK WITH YOU BOY! And um also, that goes against what any art movement has, inclusion. It being mainstream benefits the scene, the more exposure it gets the less discrimination. Emazing and other companies wouldn't be able to stage gloving events without that exposure, there'd be more people getting told they should stop jacking off a ghost if the scene wasn't mainstream. There's pros and cons, but I personally prefer the scene's rise to mainstream. But, it's this type of shit that makes me mad. When someone says that there's a right way to do something with no rules, suggest criteria to be a practitioner in self expressions, that is disgusting. That is looking down your nose at people that never did anything wrong to you. That is putting yourself on an undeserved pedestal and when someone comes through and knocks you off, you're going to be wondering what you're doing on the floor not even realizing how close to the ground you already were. Hey look, I dunno, I'm not some pro, then again I don't think there's such thing as a pro when it comes to art, only fame.Oh and fuck hipsters, not the real hipsters that don't flaunt it, the ones that think they need to be on the cutting edge of shit, and that they're too good for anything everyone else has heard of, fucking genderqueer, I was the first to do this, man I'm the only this, a BLAH BLAH BLAH WHO REALLY GIVES A FUCK. I could be the first person in my neighborhood to have a dad past age 5 but that doesn't make it special.

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