Marlo Pascual and Mark Bradford looking very good in 2010.  Don’t read the text on the Marlo Pascual link, it oversimplifies the work like, immensely.

Wittle Wayne, asweep awfter a hawd days werk

On first impression I came away thinking that regardless, Wayne has a solid work ethic. Constantly touring, doing this doing that, recording all the time, I understand being a musician is his job but he works some overtime… I wonder if he reads or takes baths, does he just watch Sportcenter in his downtime?

This is the drama, throughout the film the ‘Purple Drank’ was omnipresent, it was the source of the doc’s conflict, but in many ways that felt boring, the “is this man a drug addict” question could have been dealt with in other ways. I wish they talked more about why he feels the needs to slow down, I can’t imagine his performing schedules and I can only imagine how one would feel after playing to such large crowds. The energy afterwards must be unreal, let Wayne talk about that, let him show his humanity before stonewalling him with judgemental questions.

Visually the footage was very creative, uber watchable and the titles were excellent. Content wise there were a bit too many long and and boring shots of studio footage, I wish they would have given more insight to his creative process, the pause, rap, pause rapping from the black bag was far more interesting than having Wayne shout with headphones on at a phantom studio engineer.  However it is a documentary and making a film with a real live person (as acknowledged in the intro) is very difficult, so kudos to the filmmakers for taking up this task with a such a dynamic individual…

If you’re interested in the trajectory of Rap, this is an interesting view, if you’re not interested in seeing another young, misogynistic mega-star in a rocumentary, I would walk away from this one.

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Thanks to Aylor for including me on this public conversation via facebook and showing me this video.  I feel like this track could be dance remixed and turned into a hit.  Any thoughts?

A few recommendations from Michael K ala Noise in my Head, a top notch radio show from Melbourne with a heavy mix of Italo and Cosmic disco.

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