straight la

just got back from vacation in LA and while I was there after dinner at Roscoe's this throw back came on the radio. The lyrics are too real and almost of a bygone era. Yes its indeed problematic - a study in the often nihilistic, misogynistic, violent celebration of swagger seen all too often in the music I love. Yet the artists don't pull the lyrics out from random. The city is sunny, but its street life is all too real for too many. Easy recorded the realness surrounding him.

we've got a lot of work to do, if only to make sure that in another 20 years we don't hear lyrics like these anymore.