I'm starting to get a tired of people saying "Hip-Hop is dead!" as if they're uttering something so profound that it needs to be felt. I understand where Nas was coming from because the Hip-Hop he was raised on and that he and his counterparts provided to the masses over the years was dwindling in front of his eyes. However the way I see it, what I know to be Hip-Hop, is not dead at all. In fact it is very much alive and imperishable! The problem is that over the years people have made the fatal mistake of associating a lot of the bullsh*t that spins 100 times a day on the radio or most of the tracks that bump in the clubs as Hip-Hop when it's not. It's border line blasphemous if you ask me. Much respect to the conforming artists out there doing what they feel they have to do to survive. I can’t knock their hustle, but let’s not get it twisted. This two step, Sambo bullsh*t is not Hip-Hop. We need to start coming up with an apt label to categorize this genre because it’s straight up offensive to be automatically deemed Hip-Hop just because there’s a hot beat attached to it and a catchy hook.
Anyway the point of this blog was to essentially promote Common’s latest album
Finding Forever. If you haven’t already, I implore you to buy his album
NOW! The moment I popped it in my soul shook and my faith was restored. Its artists like Common that proves that Hip-Hop is not dead!
2 comments:
Preach on sister! I agree with you. Although, I like the 2 step song and other songs that have a hot beat, I wouldn't call it hip hop either. Hopefully someone genius enough will categorize that type of music. Hip hop is not dead, there is real hip hop music out there that haven't been heard cause what used to be hip hop back then has now gone hollywood.
Hip Hop is NOT dead thanks to artists like Common...but until he put some bucket-neckid hoes in his videos he will never see Platinum...and you know what, that is a damn shame!
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