as artists, it is inevitable that we are inspired by various things we encounter from day-to-day...hour-to-hour...even minute-to-minute. how we differ is the way in which we deal with these inspirations. thi sis even true for renditions...taking something that's popular, or been done before, and making it our own. it is my belief that our style and artistic eye is not something that we can fully deviate from. at the end of the day, the processing of such inspirational moments is going to bare some quality that makes it ours...makes it unique. if this were not the case we would all end up being very similar...nothing would be more boring that a lack of uniqueness.
music is another huuuge love of mine. the following two videos are musical renditions that lead to the thoughts i am spilling here...there is so much swagger and personal steez in both of these pieces...
first is marvin gaye at the 1983 nba all-star game...homeboy crushes it...he fully captivated the crowd and had them on back-up percussion towards the end. the bast part is that it's just marvin being marvin...he wasn't trying to do anything outlandish, which can be the case today...this man is so smooth...
next is travis barker's rendition of "forever" by four of the currently biggest pop-stars [drake, kanye, weezy and em]...this isn't the best song ever but this should have been the original version in my opinion...trav goes in...
bottom line...we are who we are and this is something we should embracen not something to deviate from.
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