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The new issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is pissing some folks off (like here, and here) because of its choice of “important people,” but I still enjoyed this quote from Chris Rock, that was posted on Sohh.

“Music kind of sucks. Nobody’s into being a musician. Everybody’s getting their mogul on. You’ve been so infiltrated by this corporate mentality that all the time you’d spend getting great songs together, you’re busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art. You know how shitty Stevie Wonder’s songs would have been if he had to run a fuckin’ clothing company and a cologne line?… Rap sucks, for the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it’s just not at its best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I don’t really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett’s album – or the new CD by Paul Allen. That’s what everybody’s aspiring to be.”

its funny, because its true.

Now the one from Snoop, aka Felicia Pearson from the Wire, isn’t a direct quote, but I just got a kick out of the official description of her new autobiography, “Grace After Midnight.”

“Snoop was born a three-pound cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore… The runt of the ghetto showed an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence and thrived as a baby gangsta… it was only through the cosmic intervention of her mentor, Uncle Loney, that she turned her life around… She defied traditional conventions of gender and sexual preference on the hardest streets in America and she continues to do so in front of millions of viewers on TV.”

Now that’s what I call a sales pitch.