I am so often forced to encounter the same bullshit discussions about hip hop, and it's so called "death"..
hip hop not being the same, hip hop not being worth as much, hip hop not to be resurrected, hip hop to be
given up on. Hip hop being just 50 , just the new BEP, Jeezy or whatever bullshitters hit the game today. Okay..sick of it. This post is rather untypical, yet still personal..and i just share this with yall to see some outlooks, opinions..I got in the writing mood..about this..And hey maybe you can just roll along with me and tell me openly what you truly feel..outside of the hotsteppin stereotypical opinion shit that was triggered in the media. This shit is truly controversial..but just try.
Topic started by someone:
"What will it take to revive hip hop to what it suppose or used to be?
what needs to be change...if not why are you content with what is being
produced as of today?
Topic started by someone:
"What will it take to revive hip hop to what it suppose or used to be?
what needs to be change...if not why are you content with what is being
produced as of today?
My words: About Hip Hop
There are a lot of different phenomenons taking over in this culture. I don't believe in forced or necessary change in Hip Hop. It has grown and changed to become what it needs to be. What it needs to be NOW, at this very moment, to step up and change LATER if it needs to change. It's gonna happen..no need to stre
ss it. We can't fast forward in time, it's an evolutionary process..and it changes with the change of US, what we listen to and what we speak about..How we look at life, music, taste, style. Whatever and anything..I understand the fellow oldschool lovers, but see that..Hip Hop was raised and cared about, yet sometimes left alone and abandoned to the industry when people lost faith in the music and rather developed a slight obsession with the product itself. That's on you too. That's partly what we have today. Still you can't take away from what it is, what it always was, and what it speaks for. Ain't shit is dead..nothing was buried, nothing and noone was offered condolences. You ain't gonn walk up to Rev Run and tell him.."yo dude..hip hop is dead. I'm so sorry about your loss dude." Would you? We still talk about Hip Hop..We still listen to Pac, we still listen to Big, we still listen to the new cats who make an impression. If we weren't , we wouldn't be in this discussion. Hip Hop has grown and it has grown to VARY, not to stand still, as it is alleged so often.
There's a lot of shit to judge..a lot of shit indeed..We can start going from phony Cali hype to the NY [partly] shit burstouts starting over again pretending like making a couple of beats on an old soul sample makes shit worth listening to. We could start a discussion with 50 cent and Jeezy ruinin the industry...at the same time about artists like The Roots, Jean Grae, Kweli or Nas, lifting it up and making the best of it..We could also go back in history as we all know where it has started..and draw some examples to let everyone know what hip hop obviously had been back in the DAY. Consider though, back then it was NEW. And today, it's really really hard to REINVENT a phenomenon, a culture that has been existent for 30 years. That's like trying to press the reset button on culture generally. Move along folk. We still have the hottest bands, we have so many good artists, but hey..it's on you to not see it..
You can't see the forest for the trees...
we have a lot of new cats trying to get into the game..but how could you blame them..Hip Hop has always been that WAY out of the bs in life
..it's a door opener. Ain't shit needs to change..Nothing is dead..it has never died..As i've said in the other post.. There's no need to stop changes..Saying hip hop is dead is basically an equivalent to saying a child is not a child without parents...
Hip Hop is universal, a question of taste still up to this day..whereas some folk may consider crunk as hip hop, i may not. Whereas some may think The Game is the hottest new MC around (and the number of fiends is not quite limited to be honest ), I or one of you or many of you may believe the dude is just hot crap. Why trying to change it..there's so much diversity in it now..It'll never be back to where it was NEW..stop holding on to that thought..You can't make oldschool hip hop come back cause back then it was still about the music and the lifestyle..today just too many side factors play an enormous role..Reminiscin about the days of JMJ and RunDMC , or Dela, or Dilla , Big L, Diamond D, whatever...ain't gettin us nowhere..This shit ain't comin back..Just like the year Nas dropped his first album ain't gonna come back..Move along with the changes..That's the only thing you can do to CHANGE what you do not like about it, to the positive...it's about your own attitude and your choices...When you listen to bullshit, bullshit is gonna follow you everywhere..When you check your ears and keep your eyes open, you might get away from the stereotypical opinion of dead hip hop, dead originality, godfathers of hip hop and instead, you might notice , grasp, their major impact on those many [and maybe more than you are willing to realize] artists, that could eventually FILTER and USE these original influences and combine it with their style to embody what Hip Hop means today. If you are able and willing to see beyond what is given to you on TV...God..hit up some shows, go check some freestyle sessions..listen to underground stuff or even the old Radio LP by LL, anything..there is such a grand choice you can pick from DAILY...and just solely by THAT alone, define the CHANGES you CRAVE for so badly...The change is about You...Noone else. Ain't nothing grows without guidance.
Personally.
I can't and won't complain about anything, i truly love hip hop for what it is and what it has grown to become UP to this day. If i want some real stuff, I choose to LISTEN to real music, but that's just about ME..just about what I myself regard as real. I choose to listen to my style, whatever triggers my emotions...to my old cds, to my new ones..hey i am so happy there are artists like Little Brother, J
B, Lady Sovereign, Jean Grae, Papoose, Pharaohe, Mos, Nas, Jay, The Roots or even the new nerd-philosophy hype with Lupe. Talent. There are so many more around..I'm happy to get a hold of an old LP, just as I am happy to get a chance to discover a new artist that's worth listening to. Those mentioned are not necessarily new folks, but they are not oldschool, they simple were ABLE to get that impact and inject it in their OWN music. Obviously that's what we fall for today. Originality mixed with history, mixed with style and talent..They are not what you could call "oh yea the old artists, that doesn't count"..They are not something that is held on to desperately, when it's turned from a child to a teenager or an ADULT...It's that "daddy can't let his little baby go" syndrome..That's the only problem folks have..I couldn't complain about Hip hop because it's truly something that sparks my passion, my art, my soul, provokes my daily thought and outlook on life STILL TODAY..it has been that way since i was a baby. I've grown up with it. I been there in the times of 50, just like I was there in the times of LL's first Album. Listen to everything from oldschool, to whatever hits the markets and analyze what I LOVE and what i don't. If i don't wanna listen to 50 and his crap, shit i don't listen to it and move along with what I DO want to listen to. We have enough choice to make..and enough changes to make about ourselves and our opinions. There's so much room.
ss it. We can't fast forward in time, it's an evolutionary process..and it changes with the change of US, what we listen to and what we speak about..How we look at life, music, taste, style. Whatever and anything..I understand the fellow oldschool lovers, but see that..Hip Hop was raised and cared about, yet sometimes left alone and abandoned to the industry when people lost faith in the music and rather developed a slight obsession with the product itself. That's on you too. That's partly what we have today. Still you can't take away from what it is, what it always was, and what it speaks for. Ain't shit is dead..nothing was buried, nothing and noone was offered condolences. You ain't gonn walk up to Rev Run and tell him.."yo dude..hip hop is dead. I'm so sorry about your loss dude." Would you? We still talk about Hip Hop..We still listen to Pac, we still listen to Big, we still listen to the new cats who make an impression. If we weren't , we wouldn't be in this discussion. Hip Hop has grown and it has grown to VARY, not to stand still, as it is alleged so often.There's a lot of shit to judge..a lot of shit indeed..We can start going from phony Cali hype to the NY [partly] shit burstouts starting over again pretending like making a couple of beats on an old soul sample makes shit worth listening to. We could start a discussion with 50 cent and Jeezy ruinin the industry...at the same time about artists like The Roots, Jean Grae, Kweli or Nas, lifting it up and making the best of it..We could also go back in history as we all know where it has started..and draw some examples to let everyone know what hip hop obviously had been back in the DAY. Consider though, back then it was NEW. And today, it's really really hard to REINVENT a phenomenon, a culture that has been existent for 30 years. That's like trying to press the reset button on culture generally. Move along folk. We still have the hottest bands, we have so many good artists, but hey..it's on you to not see it..
You can't see the forest for the trees...
we have a lot of new cats trying to get into the game..but how could you blame them..Hip Hop has always been that WAY out of the bs in life
..it's a door opener. Ain't shit needs to change..Nothing is dead..it has never died..As i've said in the other post.. There's no need to stop changes..Saying hip hop is dead is basically an equivalent to saying a child is not a child without parents...Hip Hop is universal, a question of taste still up to this day..whereas some folk may consider crunk as hip hop, i may not. Whereas some may think The Game is the hottest new MC around (and the number of fiends is not quite limited to be honest ), I or one of you or many of you may believe the dude is just hot crap. Why trying to change it..there's so much diversity in it now..It'll never be back to where it was NEW..stop holding on to that thought..You can't make oldschool hip hop come back cause back then it was still about the music and the lifestyle..today just too many side factors play an enormous role..Reminiscin about the days of JMJ and RunDMC , or Dela, or Dilla , Big L, Diamond D, whatever...ain't gettin us nowhere..This shit ain't comin back..Just like the year Nas dropped his first album ain't gonna come back..Move along with the changes..That's the only thing you can do to CHANGE what you do not like about it, to the positive...it's about your own attitude and your choices...When you listen to bullshit, bullshit is gonna follow you everywhere..When you check your ears and keep your eyes open, you might get away from the stereotypical opinion of dead hip hop, dead originality, godfathers of hip hop and instead, you might notice , grasp, their major impact on those many [and maybe more than you are willing to realize] artists, that could eventually FILTER and USE these original influences and combine it with their style to embody what Hip Hop means today. If you are able and willing to see beyond what is given to you on TV...God..hit up some shows, go check some freestyle sessions..listen to underground stuff or even the old Radio LP by LL, anything..there is such a grand choice you can pick from DAILY...and just solely by THAT alone, define the CHANGES you CRAVE for so badly...The change is about You...Noone else. Ain't nothing grows without guidance.
Personally.
I can't and won't complain about anything, i truly love hip hop for what it is and what it has grown to become UP to this day. If i want some real stuff, I choose to LISTEN to real music, but that's just about ME..just about what I myself regard as real. I choose to listen to my style, whatever triggers my emotions...to my old cds, to my new ones..hey i am so happy there are artists like Little Brother, J
B, Lady Sovereign, Jean Grae, Papoose, Pharaohe, Mos, Nas, Jay, The Roots or even the new nerd-philosophy hype with Lupe. Talent. There are so many more around..I'm happy to get a hold of an old LP, just as I am happy to get a chance to discover a new artist that's worth listening to. Those mentioned are not necessarily new folks, but they are not oldschool, they simple were ABLE to get that impact and inject it in their OWN music. Obviously that's what we fall for today. Originality mixed with history, mixed with style and talent..They are not what you could call "oh yea the old artists, that doesn't count"..They are not something that is held on to desperately, when it's turned from a child to a teenager or an ADULT...It's that "daddy can't let his little baby go" syndrome..That's the only problem folks have..I couldn't complain about Hip hop because it's truly something that sparks my passion, my art, my soul, provokes my daily thought and outlook on life STILL TODAY..it has been that way since i was a baby. I've grown up with it. I been there in the times of 50, just like I was there in the times of LL's first Album. Listen to everything from oldschool, to whatever hits the markets and analyze what I LOVE and what i don't. If i don't wanna listen to 50 and his crap, shit i don't listen to it and move along with what I DO want to listen to. We have enough choice to make..and enough changes to make about ourselves and our opinions. There's so much room.Two Fingers,
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