Monday, July 26, 2010
IDEAS!
OK SO IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT I SHOULD MAKE LIKE WEEKLY MAYBE MONTHLY LITTLE VIDEOS TO GO ALONG WITH THE BLOG WHAT YA'LL THINK? I THINK THAT COULD BE PRETTY COOL... MY FIRST ONE MOST DEFINITELY GOTTA CO STAR ELYSE THIS IS MY YOUNGER COUSIN WHO I LOVE A LOT BUT WE HAVE A DIFFERENCE ON OPINIONS IN THE STATE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW.. I.E. SHE LIKES NIKKI MINAJ, DRAKE, LIL WAYNE. AND FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS I'M NOT FEELIN' THEM AT ALL LOL I CANT SAY SHE DOESN'T KNOW GOOD MUSIC BECAUSE SHE DOES SHE LIKES PLENTY OF OTHER RESPECT DESERVING ARTISTS BUT WE CANNOT AGREE ON WHY SHE SHOULD LIKE THESE AND OTHER NEW ARTISTS. DON'T GET ME WRONG THERE ARE PLENTY OF RELATIVELY NEW ARTISTS THAT ARE GOOD. SOMETIMES I SIT BACK AND THINK TO MYSELF AM I SHUTTING OUT THE NEWER YOUNGER ARTISTS BECAUSE I WANT 90'S HIP HOP AND RAP BACK? AND I ALWAYS COME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION HELL NA!! THESE NEW ARTISTS NEED TO STEP UP AND MAKE WORTHWHILE MUSIC WITH SOME HEART BEHIND THIER BARS AND STOP BS'IN OVER A GOOD BEAT... WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THOUGHTS ON THIS TOPIC???
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I can definitely agree with a lot of this statement. Me and my boy debate a lot as well and he feels I'm more closed minded in newer hip hop. Don't get me wrong.. I can give respect and props to a person's grind even if I don't like their music much, but because I give them respect on their hustle, does not mean I should LIKE the music either. J Cole is decent.. Drake is okay to me but not blowing me away. Minaj does has lyrical talent but I'm not much on her delivery sometimes as she sounds like a damn cartoon. Lil Wayne.. I've tried and tried to listen and enjoy his music but I can't stand it.. it's like taking a power drill to my ears slowly! He sounds slow and whiny.. and even worse is Soulja Boy Tell Em especially with that song "Pretty Boy Swag".. worse song to me to date!
ReplyDeleteI like harder hip hop with emphasis on lyrics and tight delivery.. it's not even about the 90's as much as it is lyrical heat to me. There's an artist that came out in mid 2000 named Kenn Starr, and his album blew me away! Lyrical hip hop in a great form! Skyzoo, another who I enjoyed listening to, Kev Brown, artists like that. But yeah, I do miss 90's hip hop though.. there was just somethin' about it! Same goes with R&B then versus now but that's a whole different topic!
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YOU FEEL ME OMG YES I FEEL YOU ON THE WAYNE AND NIKKI MINAJ SHE JUST HER VOICE IRRITATES THE HELL OUT ME AND SHE SOUND SLOW SHE BE GRUNTING AND WHATNOT I LIKE ONE SONG OF WAYNES THAT IS PROM QUEEN I FEEL THOSE LYRICS AND YEAH UMM SOULJAH BOY I MEAN I DNT REALLY LISTEN TO HIM MUCH BUT THAT PRETTY BOY SWAG OMG! HAHAHAHA
ReplyDeleteI guess im an old school fan. The artists that come out today are like items on the Taco Bell menu "here for a limited time only" Then there replaced by the so-called next best thing. they cant hold a candle to Biggie or Pac. A couple of Biggies bars is better than a entire song by one of todays artist example "I'm sittin in the crib dreamin about Leer jets and coupes
ReplyDeleteThe way Salt shoops and how they sell records like Snoop" nuff said
YEAH I FEEL YOU @TRACKUNIVERSITY YEAH AND THAT SAD TO ME LIKE THERE ARE NO ICONS ANYMORE AND I KNOW THESE DUDES WANT THE FAME AND TO GET MONEY BUT DAMN PUT SUBSTANCE BEHIND IT THATS ALL IM ASKING BECAUSE YEAH YOUR SONG MAY BUMP IN THE CLUB BUT AFTER I LEAVE THE CLUB IM NOT CHECKIN FOR YOUR MUSIC
ReplyDelete@so_blu thank you, Sis, for posting this. i hope more come by to chime in. @virgomassari tweeted ur blog, told us to follow, and i came by and did just that. LOL this is my first time commenting. i support any sista who is a psych major and wants to work with at-risk youth. i'm a psych major and i also mentor and want to work with at-risk youth. so KUDOS to you!
ReplyDeletenow on to the subject at hand. LOL as long as the record companies are happy and dishing out the fake dreams to these fake stars, the only way to demand REAL music is to tweet the record labels and execs - i mean FLOOD their time lines - with your thoughts about their current roster of artists and their material. flood their email boxes and jam up their fan pages. just like lupe fiasco fans started a twitter campaing that got picked up by CNN, you can do a much more damage on a large scale by hitting up the distribution companies and let them know you ain't havin it.
are you not insulted by their continue to slang hooks and award these artists with "songwriter of the year" titles? i'm insulted. that's not song writing.
so if you're insulted enough, hit 'em where it hurts. tell them to put the music YOU like. promote the artists YOU like that have substance. support the artists in your own backyard. support your homegrown artists. right now, the companies sit pretty b/c no one is making enough noise about it. they continue to allow an artist to be lazy or worse, handpick or groom an artist that has no skills.
if you do your research (as i have to continue to do), check back to see when hip hop started and how it evolved - back in the days when the record comanies could careless about hip hop. check out when the shift happened. look how west coast rose. then when luke entered the picture...timing is everything. look at WHO was listening during each of those times. who do they market to today? look at the demographics and who comes to the concerts and for whom? how big are they? more importantly, what is the artist PREACHING and getting the audience to bob their heads to?
not all on the artists is what i'm saying...true talent will continue regardless...they have staying power..so why don't they push them instead? research that reason..
i'm happy to see that the voices here express concern and frustration that there is no balance and true lyricism anymore in the industry. everything and everyone sounds the same. music is supposed to SPEAK to you..
so what is it saying?
thanks for allowing me my two cents!
congrats on your blog. look forward to coming back.
NO PROBLEM THANX FOR YOUR TWO CENTS!!! I LIKE TO KNOW THAT IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS WE SHOULD BE DOING BETTER YOUR AS FIRED UP AS I AM.. THE STATE OF HIP HOP TODAY WAS MY MOTIVATION FOR THIS BLOG. I WANTED TO SHARE WITH PEOPLE THE AMAZING MUSIC I HEAR FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVENT BEEN HEARD BY THE MASSES YET AND SHOULD BE. THERE IS SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE THAT AREN'T GETTING THEIR DUE BECAUSE THEY HAVENT OR ARENT WILLING TO CONFORM AND I SAY THATS CRAZY! @JAYBIRDINFLIGHT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME ANOTHER WAY TO GO ABOUT WHAT IM TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteI just want to say I whole hartedly agree on the lack of good hip hop available on the mainstream networks! The thing is that in the 90's good hip hop had its foot in the mainstream, but most music in the main stream now is FULL of pop influence and all about the "Hook" we were all privileged to have lived through some eras where we did not have to search too hard for hip hop because it was for the people and ment to be accessible, yet once pop culture and media got a hold of its money making ability it gained another sound, its a worth while question to ask if some of it is hip hop at all.This has been going on ever since mainstream has gotten a hold of it! now it is with the mainstream always shifting and changing.( both good and then like previously stated you get that cheep taco bell sound! where your like man That aint a Taco and that aint Hip hop LOL) I feel like its safe to say none of us feel like this hip hop now ( mainstream) speaks to us and is about or for real people, not as much as its about money and status. But Like KRS One says we are hip hop and if all we are doing is looking on the radio and TV for artists who speak to us we wont find them, real hip hop wont leave real people it will be them, and I think they are out there, and they deserve credit or attention. However I have no idea where they are! LOL! I used to live in Gaithersburg, now live in Chicago and Ive found the artists I like there ( chi town) love the hip hop I love and they have delved into a more electronic genre. So I have no artist to share here. But I swear Im not just talking out of my ass! Im just not looking hard enough like everyone else! Thats why its good to have Miss Chantel and this blog! I dont know how to look, and she will look with us and we can do this together! any way my baby is crying gotta go
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LOL HOW LONG HAVE U KNOWN ME AND U STILL SPELLIN MY NAME WRONG??? ITS OK THO I STILL LOVE YOU YEA WAT YOU SAID IS TRUE I DONT EVEN LISTEN TO THE RADIO ANYMORE AND I AGREE WITH KRS ONE NOW I USED TO GET MAD AND JUST LISTEN TO THE OLDER STUFF BUT THEN I MET PPL WHO FEEL HOW I FEEL AND HAPPEN TO MAKE MUSIC OF THEIR OWN OR KNOW PEOPLE WHO DO SO I AM DOIN MY PART TO HELP GET IT OUT THERE... @REBECCA
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