Bob's music is something that has stood the test of time, and will continue to do so, I think. Part of the deceptiveness of what he did, though, is that many people hear the upful-sounding beats and are content to listen to it on that level, without hearing the serious message underneath it. Songs like "Real Situation" or "Roots" are good examples of this.
Granted, yes, it does sometimes irritate me when I see kids completely missing the point of some of his songs, or yelling "Rastafari!" without any sense of what it means, but if it makes them happy, more power to them, I suppose. However you listen to his music, as long as you enjoy it, that's all that matters in the end.
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"The human rectum is almost nightmarishly elastic. I had four Rubik's cubes jammed up there one day on a bet with Brian Dennehy, when a heroin-crazed Rodney Allen Rippy burst into my trailer and punched me right in the solar plexus. I shat out all four cubes and damned if they didn't emerge solved."
--Patton Oswalt as Robert Evans
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