No Excuses...

I Don't Care
written by Just K

I can’t blame them for trying. I’m sure all the random facts sway quite a few people. I’m just not one of those people. Whenever a rapper’s about to drop an album they always go on a slew of interviews. During these interviews they end up talking about any and everything having to do with the album. Well, this is simply my opinion, but I truly don’t care about a lot of it. All of the random facts and stuff doesn’t impress me. Now if the album is dope, maybe after I hear it I’d like to know how such a masterpiece was created. Until the album’s actually released, all that blabbing about the process of making the album sounds like Charlie Brown’s teacher giving a speech.

I don’t care where you recorded your album. Seriously, what does it matter if you recorded in New York or Miami or your mother’s basement? As long as the sound quality is on point, I could care less where the tracks got laid. I’m sure a lot MCs get beats and write to them. Does it make a difference where the vocals are recorded? Nope. Sure as hell doesn’t.

I kinda care which producers did your beats. When certain artists and producers get together it’s almost guaranteed magic. And of course there are cases where I’d love to hear how one MC sounds over a specific producer’s beat. In general though, I don’t care. I swear people want to act like big-name producers have never made clunkers for beats. On the flipside, there are some solid beat makers that haven’t blown up yet. A great beat is a great beat regardless of who did it.

I don’t care whether you wrote your rhymes or not. Pencil and paper or your mental tablet, if your rhymes suck, they suck. If they’re hot, they’re hot. And what’s worse is when a rapper says he didn’t write anything and it really sounds like they didn’t. Unless you’re trying to go green and save the rain forest there’s no reason to hate on pencil and paper. Whatever the process is, I hope you’re coming with some tough lyrics.

I really don’t care what The Source or XXL has to say about your album. Once Benzino’s album got like 6 mics out of 5, they’re credibility was shot in my eyes. I don’t even want to rehash that Little Brother – Lil’ Kim episode. As for XXL – I spent a smooth $12.50 (after taxes) on The Clipse’s second CD. By no means was it a bad CD, but messing around with XXL I was expecting a flawless disc. Ummm…it was flawed. Screw reviews. Show and prove.

I don’t care how long it took you to make your album. If you say you managed to do your whole album in a week and it actually sounds like a week’s worth of work, surprise! – you got what you put in. And if I happen to buy your CD, which will eventually be converted to a coaster, I’m really pissed if I get what you put in.

I don’t care if you have a 150-piece orchestra on one song. I don’t care how many albums you’re trying to sell this time around. I don’t care who was in the studio with you to cosine that your songs are hot. I don’t care how many times Dr. Dre pushed your album back to perfect your project. I don’t care what you ate, smoke, or drank while you were recording. I don’t care if you read your rhymes off a blackberry, notebook, palm pilot, etch-a-sketch, or a bunch of dirty napkins. There are a million other things I don’t care about, I just don’t care to mention them right now. In the end, all I want is a good project with good songs. I don’t care how you get there. Just get there.