Miami Student

While I went through a two week phase of playing MissionMan "beats" during my college career in Oxford, it is unfortunate that most of the listeners of Gary's music listen to it because they find it laughable and pathetic. I don't think its unfortunate because it's good music. I think it's unfortunate because he's a human being. It is no different than grinding with Glenda, the town's menthol cigarette smoking alcoholic, or having a toast with the late Lois who spent every afternoon on an intensive bar-crawl before her unfortunate death.

All I'm saying is, if you are going to write an article about Gary aka Mission Man make it a quality newspaper piece. He isn't disabled. He isn't a "feel-good" behind the music story. He's a guy that has a job in the local community that writes terrible music with terrible background beats. Additionally, he thinks it's quality and substantive. Intelligent hip-hop? Seriously? He get's to be in the same company as Rhymefest, Talib Kweli, Black Star, etc? Rather than writing an unobjective article about Mission Man, write a solid commentary about how its a bad act on American Idol on a significantly smaller scale. Scale meaning publicity, not quality. The quality is just as bad as anyone that has ever taken the stage and received negative reviews across the Randy, Paula, and Simon panel.