So I stopped rapping.
*Sighs*
For my own reasons like:
-My mum and I had beef on me rapping.
-I can't wait to blow up any longer.
-I can't be grinding hard any longer.
That's just to mention a few.
*Sighs*
For my own reasons like:
-My mum and I had beef on me rapping.
-I can't wait to blow up any longer.
-I can't be grinding hard any longer.
That's just to mention a few.
Since then, I've been listening to more artists and observing more fans' musical taste.
In Africa, mostly Southern Africa, the majority of people love and listen to house music, so finding actual hip hop heads is harder than normal. But those I know are not your average hip hop heads at all. These are what I call rap fiends.
Lil Wayne is like staple food for every hip hop head's ears out here, but Lil Wayne alone is not Hip Hop.
The fiends that I would much rather be around are more down for that old school hip hop, like Snoop Dogg (in the Death Row Record days), Jay Z (before he retired in '03) and even Weezy (during '08) for a specific reason.
I'm no implying that rap is whack nowadays. I just think that times have drastically changed from talking about factual daily neighborhood crime stories to talking about how many things you have and how rich and powerful you are.
My cousin once lectured me about my style of rapping. Taught me how effective and more appealing story telling is. That is when I first realized how most commercial rap artists brag more than anything else on their songs. Not a lot of stories and messages are being spread to the public.
And there I thought.
The fiends that I would much rather be around are more down for that old school hip hop, like Snoop Dogg (in the Death Row Record days), Jay Z (before he retired in '03) and even Weezy (during '08) for a specific reason.
I'm no implying that rap is whack nowadays. I just think that times have drastically changed from talking about factual daily neighborhood crime stories to talking about how many things you have and how rich and powerful you are.
My cousin once lectured me about my style of rapping. Taught me how effective and more appealing story telling is. That is when I first realized how most commercial rap artists brag more than anything else on their songs. Not a lot of stories and messages are being spread to the public.
And there I thought.
Children who go for outdoor camping are always anticipating the story telling part of the whole camping experience more than anything
Why?
Because that is where their imaginations are allowed to run wild in their heads. Whatever happened to Eminem and Dr Dre's concept of talking about everyday freakish situations that made us picture every word they said on their songs like Guilty Conscience?
Rappers used to make movies in every song, with every verse serving as a series of scenes. Now all we ever get out of the radio is plain pictures of many luxurious and material objects.
That's not the rap that the true rap fiends love.
When I choose to closely listen to a particular rap song, I often close my eyes, empty my mind and expect an interesting movie to play in my head. Instead I get constant liquor commercials, marijuana legalization ideas, sex fantasies and idle threats.
How is that supposed to entertain me.
If you took a group of 10 year old children out camping, made a sufficient campfire and supplied them all with marshmallows. What would be more appropriate? A good ghost story or a bragging rights contest?
I think I speak for all real rappers and true rap fiends when I say this.
BRING THE STORIES BACK!!!!
Rappers used to make movies in every song, with every verse serving as a series of scenes. Now all we ever get out of the radio is plain pictures of many luxurious and material objects.
That's not the rap that the true rap fiends love.
When I choose to closely listen to a particular rap song, I often close my eyes, empty my mind and expect an interesting movie to play in my head. Instead I get constant liquor commercials, marijuana legalization ideas, sex fantasies and idle threats.
How is that supposed to entertain me.
If you took a group of 10 year old children out camping, made a sufficient campfire and supplied them all with marshmallows. What would be more appropriate? A good ghost story or a bragging rights contest?
I think I speak for all real rappers and true rap fiends when I say this.
BRING THE STORIES BACK!!!!
“Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”
