My Thoughts of Today....Today's Hip Hop....

I am a music fan to my heart. Music tend to motivated and inspire me. If I am down and out, I put on one of my favorite songs and go with it. I know a lot of you have said that today's rap game is not as it used to be. I can so agree with you on that. Yet there are some people out there that has it going on. I can hear some of their songs and really like it. There are others that just needs to hang up there hats.

Well now a days a lot of them are not doing it for the love of it. It is mostly for the money and fame of it all. It is sad, because when I grew up with it had a meaning. It was all about getting a point across and for the love of Hip Hop. It was something that belonged to us. It was our fubu in the music industry.

Now it is everyone is trying to rap. You see rap on commercials and even in schools. The heavy metal bands are resorting to some type of rap. So when did rap really become commercialized? I think that it became that was when rappers started rapping about material things. You know the Gucci, the bling bling, and the Cars.

Once the makers of these items knew that they were going to profit from it. BOOM now rap is in the mainstream. We have a lot of rappers turning to it too. You know Diddy, LL, and 50 getting into all types of marketing deals. I guess they feel like me, rap is going to change again someday. So we need get into into else. I don't blame them one bit. It is all about money these days. Why not make a profit?

Now back to the music part of it. I miss those rap song about freedom, justices for all, and self empowerment. I was rocking Public Enemy, X Clan, even Tupac before Death Row. I think rap back then was fun, you could dance to almost any of them songs. They all had good meanings behind them.

Self Destruction stills need to be played today. I think our communities need it. Our young kids are still trying to make the quick dollar with drugs and guns. They want to be so much of the thug they see in the music industry. The parents need to be there and to tell their children it is just ENTERTAINMENT. Don't mock these guys they aren't doing half of the stuff they rap about.

Don't get me wrong I love Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, and Rick Ross. They are very gifted in their own right. I could sit and listen to Young Jeezy all day if I had to. He is just one of the best rappers out there right now. He is just not getting the attention as he should. I know Lil Wayne is a powerhouse at this point. I give them their prompts where it is due.

I want more rappers to come out with something to guide us to a better direction for our people. Reach out to the youth in a postive way, like rappers of the past used to do. Still continue to give back to the communities in which you came from.

So you see today's Hip Hop isn't all that bad, it is just going into a different directions...

Stop the Violence and kick the Science (Technology)... We gonna need it...

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