Are We Ever Going To Take Music Seriously... ?

[Big BpG]

well, as I sit here listening to 'Take A Look Over Your Shoulder' ... I'm left wondering... where has the music gone? Nowadays, rap is cluttered with bitches, hoes, money, weed and violence... when I was in high school, that stuff was dope to listen to, but now, im two years out of high school and well, its old. You can only hear stuff so many times and well, now, everyone is screaming the same thing and well, my interest in rap has really lacked. Do I even know rap anymore? Today rap is for the young kids growing up, for the teenagers who are stuck with science projects and have fancy lives supplied by their parents. Personally, I can't stand it and that's why I find myself digging back in my collection of albums... the old Warren, Dre, Snoop, checking out Kam, Devin, ... some classic funk and even Santana... music isn't something we take seriously... we drop one day a year for some serious music and well... it is the grammy's, but even then, who do we see nominated for best rap album.... Nelly, Ja Rule, JayZ, and Outkast... and Outkast deserves every right to be up there... the other three... shit.... hell no...sometimes I wish I was still young, with no care to what music was, but now, I'm 20... my life is starting to shape into its form... soon, I'll be on my own, with my own money and I dont wanna hear about your party down in NY where you met some girl... life is a lot more than that, and I'm starting to see it like that... I want some dope shit that I can relate to...in 10 years, we will look back at 2002... and say... the hottest songs during that year were...

1. I need a girl
2. Hot in Herre
3. Thug Luvvin


shit I can't even name more, I can't stand turning on the radio and here the same old songs over and over again... when you have Naughty By Nature with 3LW... you know shit is bad... NBN was my group back in the day, nothing can touch their classic shit, however now, to get sales, you gotta hook up with 3 teenage girls... music is all about money now... you wanna go platinum with every album and you want your shit on mtv and bet... so you need an image so 12 yr old girls will vote for you... and you want the hottest producers, so when your on the radio, fans will say... "this is that neptune shit" .... music is fake now, just like beverly hills... instead of fake titties, we have fake thugs, fake pimps, fake bitches and all this shit.... remember what used to sell...

Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
Dre - Nuthing But A G Thang
B.I.G. - Juicy

those were my days and that shit was good, now shit is all about...man, its about nothing... music sucks, and I refuse to even listen to it... raps best representation was back in 1985, when we had Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Mo G, ... we had the Fresh Prince, we had, Rappers Delight on the airwaves and we had music representing real stuff, like Public Enemy, then the new era started, the gangsta era... and that shit took over... and out of those two seeds... we get this fucked up offspring called rap... shit like Nelly... who gives props to the veterans, yet is a terrible example of what hip hop is about... he has more ice on his neck that penguins have in antartica and he uses more band aids than a hospital after the L.A. riots... rap is gone, we've lost it, we need a group, a new era to rise... we need some of the veterans to step up and say... look, this shit sucks... fuck Snoop, Puff and any fool who has  crossed over... you all are heading downward and taking rap with you... its time to jump on a new idea and start pushing weight... no more throwing elbows, no more glitter in the teeth, no more spinning rims, no more band aids... donate those bitches, no more fur coats,  no more goblets, no more violence... rip Pac, Big L, B.I.G and JMJ..... we lost all those men to guns... and we miss them so much because they were good examples.... no more beef, its hip hop we have here, this shit is ridiculous...

so while everyone talks about the new shit, I'm digging deep in my collection and grabbing everything I can... I wanna remember what rap used to be and enjoy what we had as listeners,  we had meaning, we had life representing life, we had best friends living their dreams... we had hip hop.... now we dont

-Big BpG

[Myrealname]

Sorry but Devin is about hoes,money and weed

[budsmokeronly]

yeah I totally feel ya on some of that shit

[Big BpG]

Sorry but Devin is about hoes,money and weed

you're a prime example of what I'm talking about

-Big BpG

[js83]

word man...hiphop music just ain't da same anymore...i miss the good old days...  

[Suga Foot]

Bpg, Check out Jurasic 5, they dope!

[Myrealname]

Sorry but Devin is about hoes,money and weed

you're a prime example of what I'm talking about

-Big BpG

I dont know which devin album u got,but the dude is all about hoes weed and sometimes money.

[West Coast Veteran]

This is the reason why I've only bought no more than three NEW albums this year. Most of our favorite rappers from the 90's have fallen off or crossed over. HIP HOP IS IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY! The "new generation" of Hip Hop is looking very grim. No new jack has caught my attention since the beginning of the millenium. Eminem was the last mainstream rapper I heard that actually was bringing something new and fresh to Hip Hop. All we got now days is thug mixtape M.C.'s who spit nothing but punchlines all day like Shells, Littles, Joe Buddens, Fabolous, Cassidy, etc. who spit nothing with substance. They all seem to be cookie-cut copies off Jay-Z, The Lox and Mase. There is obviously some talent but few of them are something completely FRESH.

This whole new game sickens me. The need to make a MANDATORY radio hit is ruining Hip Hop. Sure the older generation made radio-friendly hits like "It Was A Good Day", "California Love", "One More Chance", "What's My Name", etc. but they were QUALITY. Compare that to the radio hits now days. Rappers are just not creative and flat out lazy. Videos now make me even more sick. Whenever I see a club scene in a video or a huge amount of video hoes I lose respect for the rapper that has it. Look at that clown Fat Joe who is purposely trying to re-make R&B songs just for sales and he calls himself the King of New York . Everyone is just trying to copy the formula that Biggie used but they're failing miserably artistically.

[The Watcher]

I can agree with pretty much everything you said. Nice post.

[Westcoastfanatic]

Exactly. I think all those collaborations between pop stars and hip hop
is what's the worst about nowadays. Naughty by nature is a good
example. And then i was sad when i saw a video from mobb deep
with some r@b group 112. It's even fucked up when i saw redman
in that Cristina A. video. Back in the day hip hop was all about doing your OWN thing and still getting paid. Like back in the high school days
I was really proud to be a hip hop fan. It was like real special and original back then. In a class you had like twenty people who liked corny pop music like Mariah, Paula Abdoul and whatever and you
had like five who like rap, NWA, Ice T, Geto Boys. But is was always isolated fom each other back then. Can you imagine NWA feat. Paula Abdoul??? lol. Nowadays if people ask what music I like and i say hip hop it's always fucked up when they say, So you like Nelly? Well atleast we the memories from the good old days.

[AntoCorsa]

You are right but you've already had examples of what you wrote in this topic. You cant do nothing about it... and yes, it sucks.

[Myrealname]

BONE THUGS N HARMONY feat 3LW.....wassup ?

[Lil Jay]

well put BP.....agreed with everything you said

[southbound]

good post bp...

[ag]

bpg i feel u homie, but just do this, dont look for radio to give u music that inspires and doesnt reiterate the same msgs that sell - money, bitches, weed, ice....dig a lil into some of the more unexposed artists and try to feel them...i suggest u listen to scarface - the fix.  good hip hop definately is still there, but its just sitting under the table, nonexistant on radio and sitting on the shelf.

real hip doesnt exist on radio anymore, i agree on that, real hip is independant of commercial success, it sux but its tru.

holla back.