A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.
The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.
The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.