For those who know hip-hop, it’s all about
individualism, doing something new, doing something fresh, being your own
person with your own style but adding the elements of hip-hop to it; sometimes
you might integrate other cultures or beliefs into hip-hop. Hip-Hop is the
music of America and it reflects that because like America, the music is mixed
of all kinds of cultures. In hip-hop, one can use a Japanese flute, take
samples from an Arabic rhythm, add some 808 beats, add some elements of
scratching, get an MC in the booth and boom! You have a song. When it comes to
style in Hip-Hop, if everyone is rocking timberland boots, then you rock a
different style of boots,(But with style not just thrown together) if one is
rocking Air force one’s, you go out and wear some dunks, if everyone is wearing
Jordan’s, one may decide to wear Reebok pumps. It’s all about being different,
adding flavor. In today’s hip-hop, if you’re caught not wearing the norm,
nobody is fucking with you….for lack of words.
(Not my art work found on Google)
Hip-Hop
is about spreading love. At some point in the 90’s, hip-hop lost that. It
became this sort of heathen beast music. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up in the
90’s and loved listening to Biggie, 2Pac, Bone Thugs,Outkast, Snoop, Tha Dawg
Pound, Nas, Jay-Z, Mase, Wu-Tang,
Cypress Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, De la Soul
and the list goes on; most will say that 90’s hip-hop was and is the
shit. I agree but that time period (including the media) lead to the demise of
two young men who could’ve really changed Hip-Hop. When I look at 2Pac, he was
more than just thug life. 2Pac was poetic, an actor, an activist, he was more
than what the media portrayed; however, there’s a lot of people who only view
2Pac in one light. Personally I believe Pac would’ve grown pass hip-hop and
became something more, something that would’ve lead hip-hop back into the
direction of one love; maybe lead hip-hop back into an evolved poetic state of
mind. Biggie, I think would’ve tightened up hip-hop’s mainstream’s game a
little more; I could be wrong. I don’t dislike today’s hip-hop, because if you
dig around, you’ll find some pretty dope artist, you’ll also find some artist
who can really rap but they dim-witted their lyrics in order to fit in with
today’s music. I understand, when you’re at a club, nobody wants to hear, “When
I was sleeping on the train
Sleeping on Meserole Ave out in the rain
Without even a single slice of pizza to my name
Too proud to beg for change masterin' the pain
When New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame
But then jackin' our slang
I used to get dizzy spells, hear a little ring
The voice of a angel tellin' me my name….” Those lyrics are mad DOPE but nobody wants to party to that or the radio doesn’t want to play that, they would rather push some shit and force the artist to come out with something that if listened to isn’t the best. Hip-hop: we control the industry, not the other way around. They have the power but without the people, they might as well be selling their music down at Venice Beach; I don’t want the artist to suffer because most of the time, the artist is only putting out what the studio heads tell him; however if we encourage the artist to put out what he/she feels, and everyone supports that real hip-hop, the A&R’s vision will change. There’s a tons of people who think Hip-Hop today is shit not because it’s new or it’s part of a younger generation, it’s because they feel it’s lost its edge, it’s not as fly. What’s your opinion? Do you think Hip-hop could make that change? Or is it completely dead?
Sleeping on Meserole Ave out in the rain
Without even a single slice of pizza to my name
Too proud to beg for change masterin' the pain
When New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame
But then jackin' our slang
I used to get dizzy spells, hear a little ring
The voice of a angel tellin' me my name….” Those lyrics are mad DOPE but nobody wants to party to that or the radio doesn’t want to play that, they would rather push some shit and force the artist to come out with something that if listened to isn’t the best. Hip-hop: we control the industry, not the other way around. They have the power but without the people, they might as well be selling their music down at Venice Beach; I don’t want the artist to suffer because most of the time, the artist is only putting out what the studio heads tell him; however if we encourage the artist to put out what he/she feels, and everyone supports that real hip-hop, the A&R’s vision will change. There’s a tons of people who think Hip-Hop today is shit not because it’s new or it’s part of a younger generation, it’s because they feel it’s lost its edge, it’s not as fly. What’s your opinion? Do you think Hip-hop could make that change? Or is it completely dead?
(Not my art work found on Google)
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