Master KG or Quincy Jones — The Song That Blurs the Line Between Now and Legendary

Lets step out the norm for a little bit and lets look at something pretty. We do more than write about legal subject matter and case judgments and all that pacta sunt servanta and audi alteram patem principles. If we were not practitioners of law, we would be drawing, painting, playing the violin and just really hanging out and creating art, exploring our own personal pure expression of our souls. Dont get me wrong, "litigation is art" as a friend of mine once pointed out and there is no but. I guess we like drawings, and paintings and music and sometimes stepping out from our professional lives helps in making us better and in tune with the things that matter in our professional lives. We are Legal practitioner firsts dont get it twisted. Just this time lets explore how Master KG, the South African critically acclaimed producer arranged two songs so well that they could have been mistaken as produced by the late great Quincy Jones.

Non of the material you are about to read is based on research, or studies or findings- this is just pure vibes and expression of how good songs are to my senses.

THE INTRODUCTION: WHY QUINCY JONES

The year is 2015-2016. The bad documentary is playing on a iMac computer and its a documentary that details the brilliant making of the Micheal Jackson album titled "Bad". It really more of an appreciation of the impact of the album than the detailing of the making of the album. I will never forget Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, explaining the genuis of Quincy Jones, and regarding him as the greatest producer of all time. That, when it comes to arranging records, no one does it better than Quincy Jones. If you listen to records in the album, with one particular song being "Bad" then you will realise how amazing the arrangement of sounds is in that song. I dont know a lot of Quincy Jones produced works, i imagine the catalogue is filled with greats, but from listening to the song "Bad", it was perfectly arranged. Every instrument, every sound, every vocal, ab lib, everything was just at the right place. RIP the goat.

As I stipulated in the beginning, this isnt researched, it straight from feeling so i wont be writting an essay on Quincy Jone and his contribution to the evolution of mankind. Maby that comes later.

MASTER KG, QUINCY JONE, MASTER KG- YES.....

Let me be frank, i dont know alot of Master KG's songs. But i do know that when he makes a hit, its an undeniable hit. Now how does Master KG fit in with Quincy Jone? Master KG is responsible for the two greatest produced/arranged songs in the last 5 years of person kind. I will write that again, no one in the world has made a record as good as the two songs that Master KG made in the last five years. Songs so perfectly arranged they could make anyone think Quincy Jones was at work with those. Thats how good and impactful those songs are. Just like Bad , Master KG's produced/arranged songs titled Jerusalem(vocals by Nomceba) and Ntyilo Ntyilo(vocals by Rethabile Khumalo) have all the recipes of a Quincy Jones arranged song- well atleast the songs i know were arranged by Quincy jones. Now what do i mean by that. These two songs by Master KG are perfectly arranged. Everything is where its supposed to be, doing what its supposed to do and just happening at the right time of the song. Thats its, the songs are so perfectly arranged, one would think Quincy Jones arranged them. Which is the reason for the title of todays writing. Close your eyes, listen to the songs and tell me you are certain Quincy Jone did not produce.

CLIMAX OR CLIMATE:

When something is good, its just good. Our souls connect with creation all arround us and thats why i think art has been a meduim of connection between humans since the beginning of man kind. This isnt me comparing Master KG with Quincy jones. This is me expressing how good something. How something was so well made that it would not be far fetched to say it was made by a servant of music, Quincy Jone.

REFERENCE

Michael Jackson - Bad (Shortened Version)

Rethabile Khumalo ft Master KG - Ntyilo Ntyilo (Official Music Video)

Master KG - Jerusalema [Feat. Nomcebo] (Official Music Video)

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed herein are just my personal opnion and my subjective perspective of my reality. Nothing should be construed as authority, i am no music expert.

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