a thought about people & Hip Hop
ey i'm new here, but this topic caught my eye so forgive me for putting my 2 cents in.
When do we take an actual stance of showmenship with a gratifying essensce of what hip hop really is instead of this level that everyone else has put out for us we find the nessesity to be what everyone else is instead of being what we are nothing. Nothing of a whole lot of something what we will never become hip hop isn't what we believe it to be. It is something that we ourselves will and won't ever become or comprehend. Comprehension of what we need to be is something that will never be acceptable. Doubtible that this is where hip hop had intended to be or become. We to this day, instead of looking back on what it was wanting to be we say what it should be. There are artists that have so much pride that they will never know what hip hop can be. So we start beef or battles yet the underground is forgotten cause some underground artists never get out of the battle MC mentallity. When battling MC`s just sit there and tell you what they can do with their words instead of showing you, with a story-line of their songs and lyrics thats why some people won't ever respect Mos Def, like he should be. He is before his time no one was ready for that, like no one was ready for Big L and thats why people in the game are idolizing Lil' Wayne who just takes Jay-Z`s lyrics and rewords them to his mind set. Hip hop has and will always continue too lose its way and that why some artists will never get recognition its where you finally see music for what it is instead of what it should could or needs too be and to be an artist isn't meant too be easy or room for being lazy its there too express what you see, not what you want too be like. All these weak rhymefest type mc`s who get challenged while they are high and think after that that they can actually comform an actual thought to a verse and then a verse into 18 verses which will become a song that isnt saying anything but people think its hard cause they can relate to the nothing. Because people are filled with the crap that MTV or BET has fed them because they have people that can make anything look or sound good thats why the only "good" artists are the ones that have been signed for over ten yrs but then once and a while you will get an artists like LL who is a coke head and plastic surgery junkie who just does what the blue collar corp. heads tell him too do but the sad thing that gets realized is even stay true to what we see is not true at all cause everyone wants money look at Talib...look at Common!!! I bet even if Prime got a chance he would sell out and be a club junkie............We are nothing and music will always be what the big corps want it to be instead of what it is seen as on TV, Magazines, etc..............Who are they? People that are lead like sheep to believe what "cool" is, but actually we are just doing the same thing over and over again. Nothing is new or ever wil be new because its all been done but just at different times when the moment calls for it. The only reason hiphop and rap will always be the "cool" thing to get into is because certain people will always want to be urban and people who look hispanic will always front like they are in some way. People are shallow and always will be and its tiring seeing what you want to do with music or art in some way but you cant cause no one gives or get true respect.
