The REAL reason Hip Hop is dead

Okay, you want me to tell you?…promise not to tell anyone else, this is just between me and you okay?

k.

Well.

The REAL reason Hip Hop is dead is real simple.
Remember when “The Golden age” of Hip Hop was pumpin? The 80’s…in to the 90’s? The reason why it was hot and people got a long and the music was so relatable and different was because
We were ALL the same age!

That’s it….the audience and the speaker.

Back in the day they rhymed about Sneakers, School, Girls, Pickin boogers, catchin the bus, hangin outside
It was all shit we could do…it was what we were doing at the time.

My Adidas- run DMC
“There’s no Shoestrings in em, I did not win em, I bought them off the Ave with the black Lee Denim”

Indeed, well, lemme go down there and cop me some too!

Sucker MC’s
“I’m D.M.C. in the place to be, I go to St. John’s University
And since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge, and after 12th grade I went straight to college
I’m light skinned, I live in Queens, and I love eatin chicken and collard greens”

Indeed, I’m in school, Im going to go to college…mamma just made some chicken!

…when’s the last time a “rapper” said anything about College…not only postive…. but at all?

BIG: “Fuck the state Penn got hoes in Penn State”
(Albeit GREAT fukin line)…but you get my point.

The thing is we grew up with the Rappers they were only a few years older than us and had about the same money
…they did the same ish we did every day, and the music reflected it. ONLY difference… they had a record deal

NOW

Rappers do their best to overdo and outdo anything and everyone
The cars have to be bigger, better, faster, more exclusive.

Back then (since we were all the same generation) they were happy to HAVE a car and rhymed about it
…shidd look:
Sir Mix-A-Lot: My Hooptie
Ice Cube: “I’ll tell a girl in a minute…I drive a bucket, and won’t think nothing of it, she can ride or walk, either leave it or love it”

NOW

Rappers poppin Cham, braggin about the high price drinks and clubbin

THEN

A 40 ounce…get it at any store.
St. Ides? Those were the greatest commercials EVER

You got 30-40 year olds making music for Teenagers…that shit don’t mix
That’s why the music sux, they have to dumb down the music to sell
If anything speak intelligently to make these (you) dumb fuckers think and figure out what they saying (You must learn)

…That’s like Marvin Gaye or Luther making Kid songs…singing Candy Rain and Dial My Heart…fuk no they did them…you were either with it or not

I mean LL came out when he was 17…he’s still making music to the same age group people.

Think about New Edition:
Count me out
Cool it now
NE Heart Break
Boys to men
They sang about what they were doing at the time…and different ish and situations
How they have 10 Albums and aint talk about fukin nobody not once?

Not a one

Luther the KING of the love songs…aint fuk nare one woman in a song

NOW

You got 15-16 year old singers making songs pumpin and humpin…shirts off
Then we wonder why we have 30 something year old grandmothers. (With Snoopy Ears)

Hip Hop music is dead because of cash and the audience

It’s not all on the artist, it’s the consumer…we (myself included) dont buy a lot of the new releases (shiddd I dont even download them)
Because the music is garbage

The artists dont make good music because the people they’d make it for wouldn’t buy it (they think)
…we prolly would

BUT

The Record execs dont wanna take that gamble…so if you wanna make some loot, make some shit.

That’s why there are no big concerts anymore

You use to go see: Keith Sweat, Al B Sure, New Edition, Whodini and Run DMC at one show
…and LL would open or some ish.

Now anything worth anything they are doing local clubs or lounges for tours…

Hip Hop music is dead because our youth are embracing ignorance and the older people making music are enforcing it

I cannot hate anyone trying to eat and ‘make their money’
Times are changing; Rapping was NEVER about making money FIRST!
Money was a cool by product that doing the same ish you did for fun and on the corner that came when people caught on
It was about fun, impressing others, and expression.

Don’t gimme that bullshit about these guys are just reflecting what they see and go through everyday
These fukfaces dont see all that violence everyday…and they damn sure not in the drug game that deep or none of that
Murders dont think of words to rhyme…that’s evidence son!

You USE to be able to blow up by coming out being different…

NWA was poppin….De LA comes out…LL was poppin…Kwame comes out

Then at some point the bullies came out…if you were different you got dissed and ridiculed and everyone came out and had  to sound like who ever was hot.

You realize how SUCKY Hip Hop would’ve been if everyone had to sound the same and rhyme about the same shit?

Like Public Enemy comes out and if you dont sound like Chuck D and talk about uplifting Blacks and shutting down corporations you dont sale?

No Fresh prince, no Slick Rick, no Kool G Rap, no Big Daddy Kane…no Tone Loc Puahahahaha

Cuz that’s where we are, if you dont sound like Jay Z or TI …and dont rhyme about the same ish and shidd use the same words and slang
Youre not moving units….simple.
DAMN people even doing the wack Jay Z whisper thing he does…its cool when HE does it.

Clearly when the subject is “Hip Hop music” I could go on forever…shame that Hip Hop heads dont really hit the net I’d have people to commiserate with lol
…there’s a few on the Board.

So, until Children become more concerned with learning and evolving and record companies tire of signing the same acts and images
Hip Hop music will continue to die a slow death

Long Live Hip Pop