Make Sure They See My Face.

Kenna's sophomore album, Make Sure They See My Face, is finally out. (Fucking Finally Thank You, Interscope Motherf*ckers).

Anyway, if you know about Kenna, then you know that his first album got completely and totally fuct with by the Powers that Be in the Music Industry and we almost never got the release. That album, New Sacred Cow, was leaked on the internet and getting mad play on radio stations and internet radio shows long before it was finally released by Interscope.

The same thing, unbelievably, started to happen for MSTSMF.

The thing is, I think, Kenna defies classification and stereotype. Born in India, raised in Virginia, looks black, music isn't gangsta' rap...none of these things matter if you like his music, but if the Machine doesn't know how to package you up pretty and put you in a niche, then chances are that you'll never get to decide that you like the music. We just won't hear it, because it doesn't fit very well into the societal concepts of who = what, even in 'Artforms'.

{Newsflash to the Music Industry - Music is still an artform. Kthxbye.}

Anyway, I could go on and on about how Clive Davis killed the Music Industry and how the machine is a beast that chews up talent and spits it out while less-talented-but-more-marketable aholes are putting songs like T-Pain's shit on the radio and MTV.

But, I won't. I'll just say this...Make Sure They See My Face by Kenna is out now...buy it. Because even though he has the beast/machine/industry behind him, all they're doing is fucking him back there and he deserves better.

A video clip of Say Goodbye to Love, by Kenna and directed by Pharell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-ysBuRVQA

And a final tidbit for you - Radiohead is saying goodbye to the beast and stepping out to independence now that they got stadium status. Their new album, In Rainbows, is being released by them directly to fans - for the price of however much you think it's worth. And you can pre-order the Disc Set for the album, including wax there as well. www.inrainbows.com

Let's take music back.