November 9, 2011 by Quan Vu
I’m trying to figure out what accent would pronounce “one love” as “quan lub” (Pilipino?). But clearly, this had to be an auto-post.
Real J. Wallace from Brother Nature is gonna release The Jah Father of Soul Cal tape this Friday (or to be more exact, RÆL JΔ¥ is gonna release The JΔhFather of So(u)l Cal tape this Friday [as you can see, his HTML character game is type fierce]). According to Real J. on Facebook:
The Jahfather of Soul Cal is ment [sic] to be listened to on the MLK Highway (94 West) So I intend to make the tape the length of the MLK Highway aka the FREEway. The Jahfather of Soul is a modern day dream, with a soulful scheme. Unmixed Masterpiece.
I’m hoping he means this is an actual cassette tape and that the magnetic tape will actually stretch the length of 94 West. But never mind the long-shot chance of a tape fetishist’s wet dream coming true. I think I’m becoming endeared to Brother Nature’s penchant for lofty concepts (some thanks goes to the Tribe Called Quest documentary–pretty sure “lofty” even comes from a Q-Tip quote [Warning: I'm selling you something in that link]). At some point, backpack shit became seen as corny and then I think just having lofty concepts–aspiring for something … more, I guess–became just as corny. And I’m guilty of falling into that thinking too. But it’s such a cynical thing to lower the stakes on art like that and it may be a symptom of an increasingly cynical society. Anyways, I’m getting too far off topic.
The point is, Real J/Brother Nature are less afraid to raise the stakes. While I don’t necessarily think they always execute their concepts extremely successfully, I do give them more respect now for trying to express big, grandiose visions. Y’know, instead of just being one of those plain ol’ rappity-rap rappers that I love.
And oh yeah, cool video. I think they’re just rhyming over the bare-bones sample from Nas “One Love”? Surreal spill.
