Our friends at iLL-Literacy wrote up this great post on Saul Williams. This post has gotten some great attention from other bloggers and we personally love it as well. It’s about the approach musicians should take towards spreading their music. And the difference between selling out vs. being smart. My favorite paragraph is: 

I received a lot of questions from some about why I would allow my song ‘List of Demands’ to be used in a Nike campaign. Ironically, half of the people now reading this post never heard of me until that commercial aired. That, indeed, was one of my reasons for allowing it. A small circle of poets and conscious do-gooders are not enough to effect the change necessary to shift our planet in peril. We must enlist people from all walks of life, people not accustomed to questioning the norm, people who may simply want to dance uninterrupted without message or slogan. I see no glory in ‘preaching to the converted’

Checkout the whole post at iLL-Literacy: Saul Williams Is Hecka Smart