VADO

Vado's gotta be one of those rap/r&b artists that's being dissed all the time by his 'all hood' peers. Hood rats say you can't go both ways. You're either a rapper, or a rhythm and blues singer. And that's partly right. You know why? Rappers spit about 'bitches'. R&B singers call women ladies. The first party is always in the club, in a separate section, and all the unbelievable things that never happen to anybody happen to them: the girl comes up (seriously?! when has that ever happened?!), she proposes you bought her a drink, she skips the drink and heads directly to the rapper's sack. Wait a minute... that's really unlikely! Girls don't even think that way. This is why R&B singers always fast forward through that hooking up process, and focus their camera on the 'bedroom action'. Men don't really know how to get a lady! How simple a woman's heart would be if we'd have a recipe for getting her to fall! But there is no recipe! There is no 'post it up in the club', no 'keeping it real', no 'telling the b*tch what she wants to hear'. None of that really works and R&B singers, thought they have no clue what DOES work, are at least realistic about the outcome of such an approach!

We gotta give all hands to Vado, because tho he might not have that 'rap real', tho he doesn't refer to a lady as one night fck and doesn't pretend to do all that nasty sht with her, he's still a rapper. What today's rappers haven't got around to is the fact that rap isn't about boasting and hooking up with ladies at all. Take a peek into the brain matter of an old hip-hop head, and try skimming for the words 'bitch', 'lady', 'female', 'hoe'. None would appear. Nas, Rakim, Pharoahe Monch, Royce Da 5'9, Mobb Deep, Daddy Kane. None. You could find some puns involving women in Biggie or Pac's verses, but those were it. Puns, disses at most. No boasting, God knows no songs just about a girl you fooled in the club with your shrewd attitude and astute demeanor.

Check out Vado, and these will be my final words. The man is worth it. He makes the interraction between man and woman worthy of the word LOVE. In this song, called 'Shoot 4 U', the man gives out the feeling that he's been searching for this girl his whole life. It's like they fell in love when they were teens, they lost each other while in their adolescence, their eyes met again as adults, each had different relationships, but still, they longed for each other like two souls that were meant for each other. Now that's what I call devotion. That's what I call a melody for those who don't bump love songs just because it's Valentine's Day. For those that don't keep it real and don't look for recipes and prescriptions in love. Because there aren't any!

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