kaliyl said:
i feel exactly what u saying. but if ur in the music BUSINESS and you aint doin BUSINESS, then u pretty much aint doin sh.t. musically, you might be gettin the job done sometimes, but its bigger than that. but i guess we just got different views on what music should be doin. i dont take the stuff nearly as seriously as you do cuz i think there's better and more productive ways to "keep it real" and make a difference (especially in this day & age). aint no 13 year old bout to dust off his dad's public enemy tapes. its as simple as that. niggas aint necessarily gotta change who they are musically, but sometimes they just gotta suck it up & realize that people are into different stuff right about now, and they probably aint gon be convertin a large group of people anytime soon. so love it or leave it. but if these niggas REALLY wanna make a difference they need to start somewhere else. they could spread those same messages thru a different medium at a slower pace 100 times faster than they could thru a song nowadays. given the circumstances, these niggas just have to get into the core, lead by example, get personal, and try to work their way to the masses, cuz its not as simple as just startin from the "top" anymore with that stuff.
i understand what ur tryin to say, but everybody aint necessarily sellin out to the masses. i might just wanna sit back in my room and make a song called "shake dat azz like
a 8 ball" just for the hell of it cuz thats what i like. it may never see the light of day, but some people out there (like me) just have genuine interests in light hearted music, and its a coincidence that it caught on. chingy can rap about takin a "henny bottle to the face" at the holiday inn all day if thats what he's in to. people just need to leave it as that sometimes and not dig so deep. i'd feel like just as much as a sellout makin underground music as an underground cat would feel about havin nelly on a track. but the "system" aint completely to blame. some nigga started that sh.t and it caught on (dre, snoop, i dunno). guys like that started rappin about true loves for 40's & other small sh.t, and may have had no idea that it woulda got so big. but OUR people were the ones that sparked stuff like that. if u look at the trends, white people always jump on & off the musical band wagon after WE confirm sumthin. back in the day i'm pretty sure nwa didnt rack up all those "f.ck the police", racial sales from just black people. we was feelin that sh.t first and white people were ultimately listenin to stuff sayin "f.ck you". Despite political revolts from some people, we still had the masses. so until "real" cats learn how to be appealing when spreading a message thru song, they need to actually get out there & physically do sumthin in the meantime and contribute to helpin people learn instead of hopin to be "discovered".
people cant blame entertainment on the world's f.ck-up's so much, because the community has to get thru to each other first, and that sh.t starts at home, not with a song. cam'ron rappin about coke shouldnt be able to erase everything positive a kid's learned. parents need to teach their kids the difference between right & wrong, and the difference between somebody thats only a menace in their songs and a real one. so if the man at the record label is to blame for makin kids wanna be tony montana or anna nicole, then our people are equally to blame for not instilling common sense in impressionable youth. i dont blame people at all for talkin tough on songs, cuz kids need to realize that its entertainment, and its their mom's responsibilty to teach em how to lead honest lives, not an album's
. jay-z could have gone triple platinum rappin over armpit farts.
. ok, like i said, what have u done for me lately. when kanye can get him back where he needs to be, stops jockin just blaze & starts making beats that dont sound like album cuts, and when 9th wonder can literally stop makin album cuts, and put out a hot single, and when these "real" rappers finally get it together, feel free to post what you just said, but until then, turn your adjustable cap to the back, put on your short overalls, lace up the filas, throw on a 12'', put ur mouth on ur grandma's d.ck, and bob ur head to that old skool sh.t all nite b.tch.
should be a medium of changing the world, i feel that it should be made to just kick back, have a good time & party. if these "real" rappers wanna impress me, tell em to go out a REALLY better the world instead of singing about it. the KKK could rap about black power all day, but their actions would kill the whole cause. i'm only 17 right now. im at an age where i got all these different opportunities pullin at me but i choose to stay positive, so dont even try to say that i hate positive sh.t. if those "real" cats wanna impress me, tell em to come out with me when i'm doin all my community service on random ass days, or tell em to at least come out wit me when i'm taking gifts to an adopted family on the holidays. i might be bumpin that new usher, luda & lil jon joint as i type this, but i'm actually doin sumthin to better things instead of hoping some nigga would get a whif of me bitchin for 4 minutes beggin for somebody to step up. now thats real man sh.t. next generalization please.
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