Hate and resentment consume the soul, and forgiveness is often the antidote for this. These people have difficulty navigating relationships and very often find themselves shying away from any form of emotional expression. On the other end of the scale are people who have seemingly no concept of empathy at all. Here are 17 ways to tell that someone has no soul: 1) They Don’t Have EmpathyĮmpathy comes in varying degrees some people feel more strongly for others to the point of being affected by other people’s misfortune. We’ve all seen or met people like these, and it feels almost impossible to help them. What kind of person is left behind when their soul leaves their body? It’s what gives you hope, kindness, love, and the passion to connect with the universe.īut what happens when a person loses their soul, whether parts of it or the entire thing? Your soul is your humanity - it’s what makes you more than just a bundle of organs connected together by a spine and a beating heart. If you buy through links on this page, we may earn a small commission. When the apocalypse is finally unveiled, don't be the hollow man Joc-ing your way toward Bethlehem.We sometimes include products we think are useful for our readers. Read Orwell, beat Yung Joc with a trashcan, don't watch CNN. No matter their pop 'relevance,' they refuse to, and refuse to let their listeners, be complacent. may never be able to change America again (they probably have a bigger contemporary fanbase outside this continent), but they still can light up a few souls. With the way we now appreciate and consume music, P.E. When How You Sell Soul rounds the corner into its raging final third, there's a nice little epiphany. Chuck worries about images and phonetics- 'watch the masses move as a mass of switches,' 'Botswana to Watts and Queens.' The best melodies are given the space (Read: minimal Flav howling, Chuck pays attention to breath control) to breathe- see the stubble-funk trash on 'Frankenstar', the Commodores sample on 'Escapism', and, the album's best track, Redman's burbling production and winsome guest verse on 'Can You Hear Me Now?' The nakedly obvious structure loosens everyone's valves. Newsreel-ish interludes punctuate the album into thematic thirds (rebirth, bitches!/appraising the day/stumping for the apocalypse).

Aside from a few ungainly, obvious missteps- trying to play the Scott Storch melodic game on 'Amerikan Gangster', wasting the KRS run-in on a track that sounds like a D12 refuse pile ('Sex, Drugs & Violence')- the album is finely sequenced.

Simple chestnuts they are: kids gotta read, governments gotta be questioned, and gangster rap is fine, as long as you know it's rap, not reality.Īnd the skeletal disclosure works. Chuck D even tones down his still-glorious solo megaphone riot and concedes: 'Thank you for letting us be ourselves/ So don't mind me if I repeat myself/ These simple lines be good for your health' ('Harder Than You Think'). The band combats 'age' with disclosure: The liner notes sprawl like yearbook memories, thanking old AC/DC records for inspiration alongside Chuck's hand-holding descriptions of just how and why each song was constructed- sample history, just WHY he respects KRS so much and just needed him for 'Sex, Drugs & Violence'.

Old age is just a new window to shoot from. Because when piss and vinegar is your blood type, there's no such thing as tempering. titles) revisits instrumental blueprints from Fear of a Black Planet and It Takes a Nation of Millions, enshrined intros- 'The brother don't swear he nice/ He KNOWS he nice!'- and plays the self-referencing cards with aplomb. Instead of pretending to strut and rage à la those aforementioned mid-1990s old grey mare trudges, How You Sell Soul (there is no way to cleanly truncate most P.E. A far cry from their recent self-indulgent pouts, 2002's Revolverution and 2005's New Whirl Odor, How You Sell Soul to a Souless People Who Sold Their Soul? gets at the finicky emotional recipe for P.E.'s success.

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