Cricket stated: source post
Really, SC did the world a favor that night by convincing him to turn himself in.
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Alterego stated: source post
Ed... my father called me far worse, and I never wound up like him. He is pathetic, and what he did was cowardly and weak. I hope he gets the maximum sentence for his crime.
Alter, I agree in a way, but you've been gifted with smarts, intuition, perceptiveness, fighting spirit… while he was born with autistic issues. When I said not given a proper chance, I meant by life in general, not only by his dad and judge. He was dealt bad cards from the beginning.
And yeah, he got maximum sentence, almost 27 years in jail.
why would he kill his 90 year old grandfather when he was mad at his dad?
his grandfather was weak i assume at 90, he was likely going to die soon anyway
i wonder if he thought he was doing his grandfather a favor? or getting back at his dad in some way.
very strange
Huh, I don't think I'd seen that.
Maybe when people do crazy shit, then they get locked up, their art all of a sudden becomes more interesting.
It varies. There's quite a few famous people from history (Malcolm X, Hitler, Comrade Duch) who seemed to become more interesting after it, and even some pop culture figures have served their time and come out better (Robert Downy Jr is a prime example), but not all come out of it improved (Paul Reubens for instance).
I don't see 3xpress quite on the level personally. He couldn't handle critique, his mixes were cliche and uncreative, from the looks of this mixing video he has stiff body language (DJs are supposed to be performers), lacks the means to stand out within a range of performers brighter in color than peacocks, he lacked the diplomacy needed to get what he'd want out of others (needed for bookings and printings), and he can't practice his craft behind bars from it requiring a computer and a digital turntable for an entire quarter century! We'll likely have new technology by then.
His genre of choice also isn't one of the ones that gain hype from prison time. There's so many DJs out there not only with more talent, practice, and obsession, but also without a prison record that'd sweat those considering hiring him. This mark will remain on his record for life, life. While his initial foundation wasn't much to begin with, he's fucked now.
My guess would be that he snapped during a thought process, and his grandfather happened to be the person proximate to him at the time. I don't think he killed his grandfather solely because he was angry at his father. 3xpress often claimed that he tried various things such as meditation to try to feel better, but nothing worked for him. The decision to murder to me seems symbolic of him giving up on life.
Turncoat stated: source post
Huh, I don't think I'd seen that.
Maybe when people do crazy shit, then they get locked up, their art all of a sudden becomes more interesting.It varies. There's quite a few famous people from history (Malcolm X, Hitler, Comrade Duch) who seemed to become more interesting after it, and even some pop culture figures have served their time and come out better (Robert Downy Jr is a prime example), but not all come out of it improved (Paul Reubens for instance).
I don't see 3xpress quite on the level personally. He couldn't handle critique, his mixes were cliche and uncreative, from the looks of this mixing video he has stiff body language (DJs are supposed to be performers), lacks the means to stand out within a range of performers brighter in color than peacocks, he lacked the diplomacy needed to get what he'd want out of others (needed for bookings and printings), and he can't practice his craft behind bars from it requiring a computer and a digital turntable for an entire quarter century! We'll likely have new technology by then.
His genre of choice also isn't one of the ones that gain hype from prison time. There's so many DJs out there not only with more talent, practice, and obsession, but also without a prison record that'd sweat those considering hiring him. This mark will remain on his record for life, life. While his initial foundation wasn't much to begin with, he's fucked now.
The thing about being critiqued in music is how opinions and taste varies person to person. Like Celine Dion critiquing Mobb Deep would probably frustrate all the same. When art has a direction, only then should it be critiqued, like for visual FX, or what style suits what project. For what he's doing there, I think it's necessary for it to be electronic dance music, cause he's basically applying effects and opening and closing layered tracks and crossing channels with knobs and sliders.
The things that make that video interesting pretty much is the whole situation in and surrounding what he's doing. The plastered hole in the wall with masking tape in the corner, the broken mirror in the tight space, how skinny and weak he appears to be ( He's gone to big man jail too, so his physical appearance won't help him ), how he's doing something he loves, then he loses everything. Hell, in some years he'd cut off a leg just to be able to see his own youtube video, from a time before he undid himself.
Good music or not, it's a lot more fun than what he's up to now, and with that in mind, the music spun from his own hands sounds fine.
27 years. Holy shit if his petite ass survives that.
Cricket stated: source post
Really, SC did the world a favor that night by convincing him to turn himself in.
One life at a time...
