“The “Bulworth” soundtrack was not worth the money I paid for it. Overall, the soundtrack was average. Some of the songs had interesting messages but most of it was mediocre commercial rap music. Initially I had high hopes of lyrical genius from artists like Public Enemy, Wyclef, Method Man, KRS-One and the new artist Canibus. Instead I heard typical stories from rappers talking about how they’re big ballers out to get money… F—- all you folks that stand in their way. Nowadays it seems that everyone is only out to get money when they make so-called hip-hop music. Never is it about how good you rock on the mic, but how much you get from auditory plagiarism.
The soundtrack suggests the movie is about a greedy, conceited politician who has women hanging off his shoulders. I would guess that this movie isn’t worth seeing either, but that’s my opinion.
I did hear some tracks worth listening to. Artists like KRS-One, Prodigy, Method Man and KAM present their versions of how politicians view the Black community which is: if you live in the rundown urban areas, you just don’t count politically. These artists get together on the song “Bulworth,” which has the subtitle: “They talk about it while we live it.” In other words, politicians might talk about change, but they never make it happen.
Thinking big
In “How Come?” Canibus and Wyclef ask if there would be less racial tension today if Malcolm X or Dr. King hadn’t been killed. They wonder where man came from—God or the Big Bang? and what will happen when the millennium ends? They don’t give you answers, but they get you thinking.
The new artist Black Eyed Peas dropped a track called “Joints and Jams,” which had to do with having fun without drinking and doing drugs; just listening to the beats will make you dance.”