How do you afford your rock and roll life style? What happened to hip hop in the park? Who shot ya? Can you say my nizzel and not be racisizle? These are some of the questions that we are faced with today in young, urban, contemporary culture. Have all of the influences of the past siphoned us to this mundane sound that "blazes on pop radio"? I hope not, did old school, trip hop, gansta rap, dirty south, Reggeton and all of the other gene's of hip hop lead us to the notion prefabricated cookie cutter emcees. I mean really Solja boy dose he even have lyrics, or is it all just one big hook? is this the evolutionary step that our hip hop four fathers wanted there ideas to spawn into? Is new hip hop a generic blob of fragmented ideas sewn together with the broken threads of society. Well i leave it up to you. //////////////////////////////////////////////
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Through this supression they punish the people that's askin questions. And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions. The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons. Don't settle for less, even the genius askses questions. Be grateful for blessings, don't ever change, keep your essence,
the power is in the people and politics we address.
also, have you read any Beverly Daniel Tatum?
ohhh soulja boy has lyrics. for sure. he's so into showing off that his fame was born out of internet popularity.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT
i respect that.
i think he can be proud of that.
yes, it's more common these days for people to be able to make that claim, but when you do it so well... you should make music about it.
Your speaking the truth good friend. We are in a sad state popular entertainment. We are witnessing a runaway train of degrading, stupefying and easily quantified commercial cRap. This terribly simple, mundane music is not only regurgitated repeatedly and duplicated incessantly, but it is also economically reciprocated by the same unconscious fools that this music targets. If your fan base wants to feel gangster, because they are most certainly not, it seems to only make sense to write what they buy. If you know no better music, what incentive is there to look for something with more substance? Why write conscious lyrics when your fan base cares not for what you say but only for how hot your beat and catchy your hook? There seems to be no incentive to write songs that explore the human condition. How can he write a rap about love or education or the state of the youth he grew up with when he must constantly defend his masculinity and sexuality? The ego, both blessed and cursed is fed by approval and dominance. It is the Super ego that is expressed in popular rap today. It is his masculinity and ego which is attacked by his fellow rappers to push sensationalism and ignorance. If you have no love for yourself, and no respect for the culture you cater - when your encouraged to do the least amount of mental flexing for the most amount of profit, why even question the politics or motives of those super distributors and small boardrooms that decide the fait of pop music today? As a rapper, you got your advance, you got your small percent of the huge profit from your intellectual property. I ask, what even can be done to turn this train around? Or at least derail it temporarily? Doesn't it seem that Soulja boy is the antithesis of what rap should feel like? Soon, it seems to me, underground hip-hop will be the only stage where one can openly express oneself intelligently, honestly and freely. If a potential listener does not know there is something better, if the radio can suppress more conscious lyricists, when the culture subconsciously pushes the norm, what can you expect to see on your MTV? All I am trying to say is that I agree with your blog. Hungry Chicken.
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