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DAVE TOLLIVER By: Terrance Hazly (Con’t)
When asked on where he would like to see the game go this is
what he added: “I would like to see some laws passed. (laughing)
Seriously, I would like to see music go back to where it used to be.
I mean they probably still talked about the same things, they talked
about getting’ high, they talk about sex, they talked about love, they
talked about fightin’, they talked about everything. But they talked
about it poetically though, you know what I’m sayin’, they talked
about it metaphorically. You had to elude to basically, is that what
they talkin’ about? Now they just say it straight out, it’s no four-play,
no getting’ it wet, just drivin’ it straight in, no Vaseline. There’s no set up to the conclusion, it’s just
a slam dunk period.
When asked about today’s R&B singers these were his feelings: “I feel like today’s R&B
singers, they not really singin’. It’s a few cats out there singin’. Seems like a lot of the singers
wanna’ be rappers, Trey Songz, Chris Brown. And all the rappers wanna’ be singers, Young
Thug, Rich Homie Quan.
R&B is not dead but it’s what you call hip-hop now. You listen to all these songs these cats are
*sing-ing*, and it started back in the day with Ja-Rule, then 50 Cent, and then the auto-tune came
in and it made it easy for the people to do anything. Life is one big crutch after another. I call
technology tha’ thrilla’ and tha’ killa’ (laughing). On one hand technology has enhanced so many
things, made it easy for people, enabled people to become millionaires in minutes, seconds,
overnight. On the flipside it’s killin’ us, it’s killin’ the purity of the art a lot of times. It allows people
to throw stuff together real quick and the people are just allowing it.
I think we’re a society today where we don’t fight. We don’t have the attitude where we get up
and fight for what we believe in or fight for what we want. It seems like we’ve become a nation of
people that just take what they give us and then boom that’s it! You know, we don’t write, we
don’t vote, we don’t fight, we don’t march…only time we march is when they see some injustice
on T.V and Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey, or any of these cats say well we need to get together and
do it, know what I mean?
So, I don’t man. I’m prayin’ for it. (laughing) I know as far as me, I’m never gonna’ change the
way I do my music. I know how I was brought into this world and it’s the purest form of music I
think is love, life and relationships. And that’s how I do my music, That’s how I write my music.
You can catch Dave Tolliver on his internet radio show “Full Belly Radio”. You can hear it on 3
different networks every Wed. from 1p-3p on WRNRADIO.US. From 7p-9p every Wed. you can
hear it on thebeatdropsradio.com and Thurs. on the JKing network at blogtalkradio.com/j-king.
You can also watch him on the new reality show “Beat the Streets” starring Big Meech from
BMF’S wife on the beatdropsradio.com every Wed. also. For Full listings check out davetol-
liver.com for all shows.