That was.... That had zero artistic value unless you count the amount of effort to engineer and arrange the perfect melding of these things.
In the end, it's just cutesie gothic lolitas prancing around to lull the crowd into ignoring that it's a prerecorded music track, and superficial construct of media.
I guess that's art in some form.
For some reason I still dig it. I guess that's the magic of a pure distillation pop-production.

EDIT: Curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the album. It's pretty funny, and often wanders more into the realm of regular J-pop and electro-synth music, and with one song, for some reason, gangster rap.

... I like alot of music. In fact I find the only music I truly don't like is country and gangster rap, and a few classifications of electronica like house (but not dubstep, I hate really high bpm's).

This isn't a song I like. -_-

Gots a good bass though.

His gangster rap one is awesome.

"I like patting my cat"

I dig the message but it seems a bit fucked up that it's coming from Nas. This is the guy behind some of the most pro-violence material I've ever heard back in his heyday. I think I'd prefer today's pop-nonsense to yesterday's gangster rap.

Ahhhh me alma mater! PV used to be such a quaint little country university.....PV is a middle of no-where, historically black university, not many republicans there-if they had put the polling place on campus, then you'd have a clusterfuck of traffic on campus(not to mention, you'd have fun with all those white folks who had never been there before, trying to find their way around the place)-this goes both ways for an amicable convenient location-(I can think of 100 better causes to march on the highway for) silly white people-you shouldn't have stuck the black folk's U in the country ya, cake and eat it too crackers!!

Another shot in the foot for PV s the amount of punk-ass, gang-banger type crime in Waller county, which has increased steadily since about 1990-bout the time smooth R&B was replaced by gangster-rap as the predominant music of choice-watched it like a bad fekkin' dream-

I fully agree - great movie and hilarious in a way I rarely see in other movies.

I know guys like that too - they love Gangster Rap and work as Finance Clerks and Office Administrators!

Bolton has that poster of Snoop in his cubicle too - he is too Bad-Ass!

This viddy rocks, this song rocks, all you youngsters got ripped-off, yer childhoods tainted by gangster rap, vapid pop, and angst-ridden "alternative" poo-poo......not to mention the complete prostitution of former billboard hits, as advertising jingles.....welcome to Armageddon.....

More power to the new genre', great combo of styles, hope it replaces gangster rap!! Although there has always been a personal distaste for a Babylon-styley Jamaican accent.....White folks just can't cut mustard wiff dem Rastafari talkin' an shoutin', mon......

Ok, where to start..

1) There´s a lot of racism in the german military. Fact.
2) What Spiff says is very true. Maybe hard to imagine for Americans, but there really are very few colored people (hope that doesn´t sound racist, it´s the translation of the polite german expression) in Germany compared to what i believe is the situation in America. At my school back in the days: only whites. I don´t remeber seeing any colored person in my home town (a few thousand inhabitants) ever. The first time i saw some colored persons on a regular basis was at university, of 3,000-3,500 students there were no more than a dozen.

Furthermore what´s a shame to see is the situation in the town where i´m living now (~1mio): If you are of very dark skin you WILL be checked by the police. I´ve seen that so many times. People tend to think that if you came from Africa to Germany you most certainly are a drug dealer. That´s a shame but seems to be quite normal over here. Makes me sick every time i see it.

The other thing Spiff says is also true in my eyes: The first impression youths in Germany get of African-american people does most probably not come from reality but from rap music videos. Gangster rap is VERY popular in Germany.

Which leads me to my next point: As i´ve stated before, it is VERY unlikely that you as a German will EVER encounter a gun in your life execpt of the military. We have very strict laws, prohibiting gun posession for private persons nearly completely. Though there´s a huge movement to copy US gangster rap in Germany, more and more german artists (especially the label "Aggro Berlin") glorify their so-called Ghetto life, where you could be shot every day (which is total BS in Germany), drug dealing etc.. There´s this 'ideal' of Ghetto, Gangster Life etc. They very much glorify that lifestyle and through that there´s a strange picture of colored people established. Some of the German (white!!!) rappers even call each other by the n-word and use that a lot in their lyrics (take artist King Kool Savas for example who is part German part Turkish).

As a part of that the term "Bronx" has become commonly used. I´ve encountered the use of that term in my time in the military, too. In 99% it doesn´t refer to the NY district but to any 'ghettoish' place. Doesn´t make it right, just to explain..

The German ignorance of the topic goes on: It is very common along the younger generation to speak of "Texaner" (german for Inhabitants of the US state Texas) when refering to people of most probable south american / mexican heritage.

I could continue forever.. I don´t want to defend anything here, I just thought you guys might find some of this interesting. As always I´m open for opinions, suggestions, critcs, questions and whatever :-)

3) I don´t know why that´s of relevance but: Krumzy, you´re right. It´s a MG3. That´s not the standard weapon but the "bigger" version of standard G3. The G3 (7,62x51) is more and more replaced by G36 (5,56x45) which hasn´t a bigger brother anymore but comes with a seperate mount for MG-use.

Oh and very important: I don´t think Germans are any more racist than other people, it´s just a little bunch of idiots that make it into the news. Just like the KKK etc. Remember Football World Cup 2006? ;-) [that´s soccer for you American guys...]