i've recently been digging up on, studying and listening to a lot of Leon Ware's work. real sensual bloke.
here's a 2-hour interview he did with the Red Bull Music Academy where he talks about everything from Motown to his own freeky ways. the man has a lot to say lol
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/uploads/tx_rbmapodcasts/PC05-Leon_Ware_01.mp3
of the many things i found interesting, he goes on about the real meaning of Minnie's
Inside My Love
» When I wrote this song, Inside My Love for Minnie Riperton she asked me: "Do you have anything that we could say that kind of takes it a little further?" And I had an idea. Interestingly enough, when the song was released and headed up the charts, I heard a DJs description of the song and I stopped the car, pulled it aside and I actually called him something that I won’t use in this room. But it was really disappointing, but actually after I cursed him I smiled because it was a 100% feeling that, when we finished the song, the sentiment of the song is: "Won’t you come inside me, will you come inside me, will you take a ride inside my love?" However, listening to it most people took it as what it was. "Won’t you come inside me," meaning the ejaculation or the orgasm that we do when we get to have that moment. However what I meant, it came from me being a little boy in church hearing the preacher say: "Won’t you come, won’t you come inside the lord.“ ( whispers) And I took that with me all my life and in effect that particular phrase as in "Can I Save The People" was so compelling that, when I thought that it was coming up at the end of the ceremony, I left the room. I didn’t want to hear it because it made you want to come. However, the meaning being an entendre, which I do constantly. I love that: having two meanings on one or several meanings and letting the individual listening adapt to that meaning that means something to them. Which is a very strong – I think one of the strongest things you can do as a writer is to give your listener or the people that are working with you the option to take their particular view of what you are saying in your message.«
and on the current business and rap music:
» I don’t want to play out the artistic excellence of anybody before I really assisted - I guess a lot of people who hear rap hear the roughness and the animal thing. And to me at first it was so demeaning first to the ladies, second to assist your intellect, third it was not happy music to me or happy art. However, over the years they have adapted and you got some people like Common and different people that have some views stressing some ideas and I think that’s going to be the development of that part where... in every art you will have I call them your hackers: people that write you ten songs a day, you know, but none of them are wily. But some of these hackers, this is the interesting thing about what we do, make a point about your charts. Any charts you read do not put any emphasis on it because it is only a reflection of the modeled money of the people that put your record out and were able to put into that record to see itself. Unfortunately. I’m speaking of now, I’m not speaking of the time when I came into the business. Unfortunately, there is a parameter there that does work but for the most part, this time set deals with not so much your excellence, but how excellent your connects are and how good you are as a business person.«
the man's a unique being.
