
So I am watching BET after a long day of doing what I do (still don't know what that is) and 106 and park comes on and I am like well its been like 4 yrs since I watched the show and I figured why not.
Now mark you I am barely 26 yrs old so I still fall in the consumer category of most Musical Genres, therefore my opinion still counts, plus am one hell of a good writer.
Track number 7 begins and I completely stop to watch in amazement as some guy goes on and on about "doing the Ricky bobby"!!! Believe it or not I needed to take some days off from the blog to ask myself if or not I should even try salvaging this thing.
why why why
Anyway am in a dilemma which am sure many can relate to which basically is am I too much of an enthusiast or is the music that is out right now primarily geared towards my 12 yr old nephews.
Don’t get it twisted I am always going to be for people feeding families and getting out the hood so on and so forth but let us call a spade a spade how much do we value this musical representation?
Now am not saying I am completely against all I hear but WTF is going on with 70% of it?
Even when Hammer was catching flak from every corner there was other stuff on the mainstream that kept the balance. My issue is not with the Ricky Bobby’s, the superman’s etc; my issue is with the lack of balance in mainstream media.
The following day I log onto one of my favorite sites and Jadakiss has sold 135 k on his 1st week which is waaaaaaaaaaayyy more than most of these guys with all this radio play and airtime as a matter of fact somebody( leave the names to protect the innocent) with hella airplay and mad videos only sold 10k . Whats wrong with that picture? Those 1st week numbers told me that I am not the only one that still has a yearning for substance and a decent catalog. So the next time you see a radio programmer, Radio DJ and any other powerful Media person smack them over the head for what they are doing to our music. Just kidding, but we need to protest or something this is getting out of hand.
Now I am definitely willing to look at this objectively in that maybe I am refusing to let the music evolve or maybe I just need to accept that hip-hop is not free of change and I am all for change but not regressive change if we are going to change let us move forward not reinvent the wheel and Fire when we already have Bentleys and matches.
I feel like the Industry is making a mockery of our Culture by Investing Major on this Ringtone Music,Put the marketing dollar on Bubblegum Rap and Brainwash the youth..so eventually increase a demand of the Garbage music than the Real Hiphop Music..they want More Soulja Boys and T-Pains..less Jadakiss and
ReplyDeleteMosDef n Kweli's..Less LUPE's and Less Ice Cubes..and the Final Product of that plot is our HipHop Community looking like a bunch of Baffoons n Clown's..The Sad thing is We always Fall for it..That Love of Money is a Bitch!!
FUUCK the INDUSTRY!!