“Bob,

I’d really like to take this back to my original point, which was just that some albums are meant to be listened to as albums – and that artists should have the right to make sure they’re sold that way. I spend a lot of time working with artists who give their all to make the hottest music they can. Sometimes this music works great as a collection of singles. But sometimes the artist puts his heart and soul into creating something that needs to be listened to from start to finish. But hey, I’m a consumer too. I use iTunes and I love it. But I also know that the iTunes model of slicing everything into singles isn’t the best approach for every album. It isn’t just about money, either. Radiohead didn’t offer their new album as individual tracks – you could only download the whole thing, because that’s how they wanted people to experience the music. But they let consumers set their own price. They kicked it the Radiohead way. I’m just saying Jay-Z should be able to kick it Jay-Z’s way. It’s frustrating to hear people saying “Gimme my singles right now!” when alot of the same folks are complaining about how they don’t hear any good albums anymore. I believe that if we give artists a little room to put records out in a way that serves their art, we can really raise the level of the game.

-JD”

but in all seriousness, if you turn on the subtitles, it just reads “i do not understand why my successful business model must change for me to continue getting cristal enemas and diamond-encrusted valtrex pills. i only wish we could accelerate his inevitable journey into hip-pop obscurity so that there’d be one less reprehensibly bad top 40 r&b fantasia in mediocrity being peddled as ringtones every week.

where do these guys come up with their content, is what i want to know. i feel like research chemicals must be added liberally to their $400/oz hydro weed. this community of musicians and producers (read – mpc-jockeys and closet pimps) seems able to take any pedestrian saying from a normal conversation (”clog ya drainz” “likwid plumma” and “13 16teenf wreyinch” could all be titles of top40 r&b smash hits born out of a trip to home depot). fuck dude, lyrics don’t matter – i understand death metal better. the music doesn’t matter – set a korg triton to autopilot and goose everything below 80hz.

wake me when this is all over if i do sleep through the apocalypse.