Why Mainstream Hip-Hop Is Dead
Although many people argue that there is no type of sophistication or soul in today’s hip-hop is actually not true. In fact, there are many hip-hop artists with positive musical genius that is not entirely looked upon or known. In my opinion, the thing that is wrong with today’s hip-hop music is actually coming from the mainstream. Many have forgotten, but once upon a time we did have mainstream hip-hop that had a message, not to mention artists with true over average talent. Unfortunately, it seems to me the true Hip-Hop artists have been buried, and their talent along side with it.
I do believe that we have a lot of true emcees out there, but what I don’t understand is, why is it that a lot of other talented rappers that do sound better than some of the mainstream rappers are not in the mainstream status? While everybody knows that mainstream artists such as Gucci Mane, Plies, Niki Manaj, Drake, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Lil Wayne and others, are very great rap artists, many people wonder “where is their message?!”
I myself wonder where is the soul of our rap today. Now all I hear is – what rims to get for your car, someone getting robbed , drinking 40 oz beers, exploiting women, sex, drugs, and violence. I’m not saying that all songs have to have a message, I just find it completely ignorant when that’s all I see!
What I find very irritating is why rappers like this get paid millions of dollars for average, typical lyrics, that especially make African American people look ignorant and ghetto. We have so many other artists who write ingenious rhymes that are very much as truthful and explicit as any other mainstream rap song, but sadly for some reason it’s not that appreciated. I truly admit that Lil Wayne is one of the best rappers that has been in the rap game and recently in rock, but I honestly feel that he is not sincerely the “best rapper alive”, as he is claimed to be known as. Yes, Lil Wayne can rap about anything, plus everyone knows that he has a unique swag to go with it, but most of the time when I hear a song from him it just seems to me that he wastes his talents on stuff that doesn’t even really matter. Every one says that Lil Wayne is so “this” and “that“, but instead of just saying that he’s the best rapper, why don’t people try and find out where he get’s it from, and what his inspirations are?
According to statistics from the latest book of African American nonfiction author, Journalist, and activist Bakari Kitwana shows that in one of his chapters from his latest book Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America disputes that the majority of rap consumers are mostly 70% White, while the other 10-15% are Blacks, Latinos and Asians. Apparently Hip-Hop and Rap music is obviously no longer “just a black thing”, which is good and has become a fraction of multiracial American life. Since White people are the officious consumer base, record companies do not take into mind Black community interests or aspirations.
Now if a 12 year old white male makes a decision between Talib Kweli and Gucci Mane, which album do you do you think that white male is going to buy? An album about having knowledge and being down with Black liberation? Or an album about getting high, getting “bitches”, being a hustler, and what ridiculous rims to put on your car?
So as long as Hip-Hop keeps going to hell without a testimony, then Black youth especially, will continue to embrace sex, drugs, violence, and any type of personal nihilism as long as that’s what the morbid taste of White people mostly like, (and to be honest I find it to be some conspiracy behind it but I won‘t get into too much detail about that). Unfortunately being a pimp, player, or hustler has become “the new thing”.
One thing is for sure, is that if true Rap artists such as Tupac Shakur & Biggie Smalls were still alive today, mainstream hip-hop would honestly be in a whole better state than what it is now. But for those who do want to listen to something with a meaning or just some different Hip-Hop artists in general that are just as good or maybe even better than the current mainstream artists now, then my recommendations are:
Mos Def, Brother Ali, Tech N9ne, Esham, ICP, Twiztid, Boondox, ABK, AMB, DJ Clay, Jedi Mind Tricks, Talib Kweli, Nas, Dead Prez, Parris, The Coup, Prozak, Hollywood Undead, P.O.D., Immortal Technique, Jay Electronica, K’Naan, K-Os, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, The Roots, Royce Da 5’9, San Quinn, and OVER2!
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