Consequence dont quit your day job5/5/2023 ![]() Inclusion in the city’s top exhibitions during the ’80s brought Salle the fame that allowed him to spend “most days in my studio, alone,” no supplementary income required. As David Salle - who was financially insolvent at the time of his first show, held at the loft of a young dealer named Larry Gagosian in 1979 - admitted in a 2005 lecture, “It was common not to expect to be able to live from your art” in 1970s New York. (Either way, all the more reason to avoid the office.)īut even the celebrity painters of the past half-century had to hustle at one point. As a consequence, her talent can start to feel corruptible, like easily torn silk, or larger than life. She doesn’t work, likely because she makes so much money she doesn’t need to. What is an artist supposed to be? The figure this anecdote suggests - holed up in an airy turret with her materials, descending only to glissade through parties and openings - may be the one of popular imagination, but she is also a recent phenomenon, a product of our fetishization of genius. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.” ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him that I would soon be finished. “While working,” Glass recounted to The Guardian in 2001, “I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. The avant-garde composer Philip Glass shocked at least one music lover when he materialized, smock-clad and brandishing plumber’s tools, in a home with a malfunctioning appliance. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste Land” (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day, or Wallace Stevens, scribbling lines of poetry on his two-mile walk to work, then handing them over to his secretary to transcribe at the insurance agency where he supervised real estate claims. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Label: Columbia - G.O.O.D.ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs.See More Your browser does not support the audio element. It's as if he feels he has to prove his street cred when his talent - part old-school, part backpacker - is imposing enough, appealing in its intelligence and uniqueness he doesn't have to slip into stereotypes to show he's a real rapper, he can let his rhymes speak for themselves. In fact, it's in pieces like "Night Night," in which he warns he'll fight if he needs to, that things come across a little forced. This means that even in songs like "Pretty Little Sexy Mama," where he uses fairy tale imagery throughout ("I make a damsel-in-distress dismantle her dress/And once you meet me past the guards I can handle the rest/I got a plan for the stress in these evil times/So I keep on body armor like it's Medieval Times"), it seems natural and real, the MC's slightly lisped voice ably keeping time and cadence well. It's all very relatable Consequence isn't trying to present himself as anything more than just a regular guy, in the same way Kanye has, and it's apparent. The rest of the record moves from tracks about trying to make it big, or at least make it ("Don't Forget Em") to women ("Feel This Way") to general observations on life ("The Good, the Bad, the Ugly"). He begins Don't Quit Your Day Job with a song/skit about being behind on bills and having to put his "pride to the side/Go get a 9 to 5" and ends it with deciding to focus all his time and energy on music instead (having to deal with a nagging mother throughout). But perhaps because it took him more than a decade since that appearance, Quence chose to approach his first actual solo album from the perspective of a kid just starting out in the game. ![]() He made his debut in 1996 on A Tribe Called Quest's record Beats, Rhymes and Life, and, while his career since then has not been overly active, he has kept a hand in music the entire time. But Consequence isn't some neophyte MC who West has taken on as a protégé. ![]() All this friendly cooperation is probably helped by the fact that both MCs share a love for clean, mellow, soul-sample-based production, have strikingly similar delivery styles - often rhyming words with themselves in a voice that's closer to speaking than rapping - and choose to write about similar topics. ![]() Not only does the latter appear twice on Don't Quit Your Day Job, Kanye also hosted the Queens rapper's mixtape Take 'Em to the Cleaners and invited him to appear on his own album, The College Dropout. It is no coincidence that Consequence is signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. ![]()
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