Talib Kweli said that in a song, but I finally get the true meaning behind its simple, uncorrupted truth. Let me explain...
I sitting here listening to Day26 and I am seriously mesmerized. I have finally realized how powerful music can really be and how it can change your mood dramatically. Earlier, I was somewhat dysfunctional internally and I needed to relax. I had already prayed to God what was troubling me and so I needed to rest, because sometimes prayer can drain you!! So as I am listening to my ipod and my mood goes from insane to calm, to loving to outraged, to frustrated to some other emotion with each passing song, finally stopping on passionate with Day26. I realized how dangerous music can really be. Yes I wrote about it before and yes I was already aware, but just now, it felt so real.
It's dangerous what enters our minds through music. My defense was always, "I am just listening to the beat, not the words." While this is true, I really am, what I am not realizing is my subconscious is intaking what I am listening to because it doesn't have the filter the conscience part of my brain does, nor does it need my permission to perform this action. Now words that I never used frequently before come streaming out of my vocabulary and it is becoming increasingly difficult to apprehend these orphans before they escape into my speech.
I listen to Jeezy, Luda, Jay-Z, Lupe, Talib, T.I., SOME Wayne, Kanye, all these talented artist. But since I don't really listen to the lyrics, I don't know all the words to even my favorite songs, because the conscience part of my brain is not listening, so I can't remember what the artist said. Then all of a sudden I am reciting their lyrics without even attempting to remember them by heart. Now I am cursing without a second thought, calling women things other than what they are, WOMEN. It's a silent, psychological mutiny of my present state of mind trying to be impeached by my flesh and this music I listen to. I need to get control of all this.
So I am stressing that we actually read the warning label on the album cover "Explicit Lyrics." Take to its meaning because I am flipping out right now about where my mind was going earlier and how it was following the path my ipod was directing me through.
