GET THE BEATS YOU NEED AT AN AFFORDABLE RATEHIP-HOP R.I.P.!!!
AFTER THE PAST FEW YEARS OF HEARING ALL OF THIS "SENSELESS TRASH" POLLUTING OUR AIRWAVES AND WATCHING THE SAME WACK ASS VIDEOS, I AM IN TOTAL AGREEMENT WITH NAS'S TESTIMONY THAT HIP-HOP IS INDEED DEAD!!
WHEN THIS LIFESTYLE AND CULTURE CALLED "HIP-HOP" FIRST SURFACED BACK IN '81, HIP-HOP WAS A FORM OF EXPRESSION OF POVERTY-STRICKEN URBAN YOUTH WHICH CONSISTED OF DEEJAYING, LYRICAL EXPRESSION, BREAKDANCING, GRAFITTI AND FASHION. FAST FORWARD A FEW YEARS LATER AND HIP-HOP EVOLVED INTO THE BLACK MAN'S CULTURE AND RAP MUSIC SPAWNED A HOST OF INSPIRATIONAL TALENT OF MC'S RANGING FROM GRANDMASTER FLASH, RUN-D.M.C., KRS-ONE, TRIBE CALLED QUEST, N.W.A., PE AND RAKIM, TO LEGENDARY POETS AND HOUSEHOLD NAMES LIKE 2PAC, NOTORIOUS B.I.G., JAY-Z, NAS, EMINEM, LUDACRIS, SNOOP AND T.I.
FAST FOWARD TO THE PRESENT AND HIP-HOP WENT FROM A STATE OF EMEGENCY TO A COMPLETE DOWNFALL WITH EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER SPITTIN BARS ABOUT WEED, GUNS, TRICKING ON HOES, BEING A STUDIO THUG, FLOSSIN AND RECORDING SONGS ABOUT SOME NEW CAR THEY COPPED WITH SPINNERS ON THE DUBS AND HOW THEY GOT MORE MONEY THAN WHOEVER IS LISTENING TO THE SONG. NIGGAS GOT NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT BUT THE SAME OL BULLSHIT WITH A FEW CATCHY HOOKS AND ONE OR TWO GOOD METAPHORS.
WHAT'S EVEN MORE DEPRESSING IS THESE WACK ASS VIDEOS WHICH ALL FEATURE THE SAME CONCEPT...SOME HOES FROM THE LAST VIDEO DANCING IN SOME TIGHT SHIT WHILE THE RAPPER IS NOTHING MORE A WALKING BILLBOARD AND FREE ADVERTISEMENT FOR JEWELERS, AND CAR AND CLOTHING COMPANIES. WHILE THE HOES IN THE VIDEOS ARE GOOD EYE-CANDY FROM A MALE POINT OF VIEW, THE ACTUAL VIDEOS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SONG ITSELF AND SPOTLIGHT THE MODELS THE WHOLE VIDEO.
IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT A RAP SONG NOWADAYS IS THE BEATS AND THE HOOKS!! THE SUBJECT MATTER IS LIMITED, THE FLOWS ARE TRASH AND THE QUAILTY OF ALBUM ONLY HAS ONE OR TWO DECENT SONGS ON IT!!
I COULD SIT DOWN AND WRITE A BOOK ABOUT WHY HIP-HOP IS DEAD BUT I'LL JUST LIMIT MY OBSERVATIONS TO THE THE POINTS I MENTIONED. I TURN ON THE RADIO AND I TURN ON THE VIDEOS AND EVERYTIME I HEAR SOME WACK SHIT I FEEL LIKE HIP-HOP BETRAYED ME. I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING I GREW UP ON AND BELIEVED IN STABBED ME IN THE BACK. I FEEL LIKE I JUST CAUGHT MY WIFE OF 20YRS IN BED WITH ANOTHER NIGGA OR SOMETHING. ALL THESE WACK ASS RAPPERS ON THE RADIO AND SO MANT REAL MC'S WHO NEVER GET HEARD. AND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RAPPER AND AN MC. MOST OF WHAT YOU HEAR NOWADAYS ARE STRICTLY RAPPERS. DOM-P IS AN MC FROM THE WOMB TO THE TOMB!!!!
IN CLOSING, WHAT HAPPENED TO VERSATILITY AND DARING TO BE DIFFERENT? WHAT HAPPENED TO POTRAYING THE VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN IN THIS WORLD INSTEAD OF JUST FOCUSING ON THE LIGHT-SKINNED SLIM MODEL CHIC? WHAT HAPPENED DROPPING JEWELS ON A TRACK RECORDING TIMELESS MATERIAL? WHAT HAPPENED TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING REAL? WHAT HAPPENED TO JUST BEING YOU? WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, THE LISTENER WHO SUPPORTS THAT BULLSHIT? WHAT HAPPENED TO ME, A LIFETIME SUPPORTER OF HIP-HOP WHO GOT BETRAYED? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIP-HOP? WHAT HAPPENED PERIOD?!!
