Some might view the Ghostface Killah song "Holla," off his 2004 LP The Pretty Toney Album, as being a minimalist, lazy, unoriginal, nonsensical, or just plain bad piece of art, if it is indeed even art; such critics, however, miss the postmodern genius of the Wu-Tang member and Theodore Unit founder's radical aesthetic. After all, similar charges were leveled against poets like Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, who are now firmly entrenched in the literary canon of Western civilization, and contemporary painters like David Salle, who pioneered American visual postmodernism with a succès de scandale in 1980's New York.
Ghostface produced "Holla" himself. At first glance, this seems to fall more in line with the punk "do it yourself" aesthetic than any sort of postmodernism. However, in the context of this song, "producing" simply means Ghostface chose the song he wanted to rap over, in this case The Delfonics' 1968 smash hit "La La (Means I Love You)." Because of......
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