EarCandy #7 - My Top 5
- CuppingEars
- Apr 26
- 2 min read
Top 5 Genres (no order):
Soul
Blues
Rap
Corridos
Reggae
Honorable Mention: Afro Beats
Top 5 Artists (no order):
Ray Charles
Tupac
Amy Winehouse
Bob Marley
Nipsey Hussle
Honorable Mention: Nina Simon
Top 5 Albums (no order):
Luke Bell by Luke Bell
Swimming by Mac Miller
DAMN. By Kendrick Lamar
Been One by Rylo Rodriguez
Gold by Bob Marley
Honorable Mention: The Marathon by Nipsey Hussle
I want to preface by saying these choices change constantly and my answers today will probably be different tomorrow - depending on my mood, the time of day, and what I am doing.
I believe you can tell a lot about a person from the music they listen to. Their music taste is a piece of their identity, and it’s how they express this identity to the rest of the world. From what song they play when they get into their car to drive to work, to what song they play after they leave the funeral of their best friend. You can tell where a person has been and where they want to go; who they are and what they want to be; or what they love and what they do not. Music is a key to someone’s identity.
I could tell you when and why I choose to play one genre of music compared to the other, but there is no science to it, it’s all based on a feeling. This morning, as I biked through my neighborhood, faced with a steady breeze, and the sun warming the back of my neck, I played What I’m Doing Here by Lake Street Dive. Last night, as I drove to play some pick up basketball, I played Te Metiste by Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes Del Rancho while walking onto the court; and when I left, I played Hussle in the House by Nipsey Hussle. I would like to say there is a reason for that, but I can’t give a definitive answer. Maybe I played some corridos when I first showed up to be different, and then switched to Nipsey Hussle when I left to feel more of the same. An exclamation of my idiosyncrasy, followed by a call for relationship. I want to be different, but not so different that people feel as if they cannot relate to me - and music helps me do that without a word of mine spoken.
As I am writing what you’re reading now, I am listening to the music played by the song birds. I sit in what we call silence, but life is rarely silent, even if it were, our thoughts are just as loud. So I listen to the music, and my thoughts, then I will put in my headphones on my way home, and listen to some Bob Marley, because the Sun is Shining.
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