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Kendrick Lamar is one of the most un appreciated MC of our time. Although his accolades are undeniably incredible, he has multiple grammys, and his albums are seen as brilliant, but in the hood, it’s a lot less so. I am an avid fan of Kendrick but most of the black people I know that are considered “ghetto” do not appreciate his music at all, although they do recognize him as a great MC. I had a talk with a friend a couple days ago and he told me that Kendrick pretty much fell off and as us Kendrick fans do when people mention him in a light thats not incredible, I felt immediately insulted. lol Then I had a thought, Kendrick probably hasn’t dropped music because the people he is speaking to the most, do not appreciate all he did for them. The industry is obviously directing the listeners of hiphop into a pretty violent and useless mindset that is destroying them, but he boldly dropped music trying to change this and dropped brilliant music that his people, ghetto people, didn’t respect. Most mainstream artist changed the way they rap to appease the industry, yet, as the top artist, Kendrick never did, instead of changing and stressing over the pressure of the industry, he boldly stayed himself and fell back from an industry over saturated with sin and black death, and I 100% respect him for that.

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HIP HOP IS DEAD!!

This concept is one I feel needs to be heavily discussed. When Nas said Hip Hop Is Dead, he caused a major stir in the industry and in hip hop culture in general. The reason that it did was because everybody who listens to hip hop and music in general could see a huge decline in the quality of content that was being released at this time. This era saw the start of the trends and dances and unoriginality of music in general. CD’s were becoming less prevalent, true spitting was being replaced by gangster drug induced lyricisms. Rather than making music true to the soul, the motive was party and Bullshit. Thanks Big. So in the midst of this, Nas drops this brilliant album, but he was looked at as a negative hater and somewhat canceled for not supporting this new era and agenda of hip hop. I think this further solidified his stance that hip hop was dead. Hip Hop was meant to display freedom, so to ostracize him in this manner because of his opinion, that ironically was concurred by many, shows the decline of true hip hop.

IN MY OPINION

Hip Hop didn’t necessarily die, and Nas now shares this sentiment. What it did was strategically go back underground into an underground that has more promise that it did in the 80′s and 90′s. Because theres so many avenues to get heard, a lot of artists that would have never been heard before, making music in their basement and for friends and parties, have many social media avenues to post their stuff. Now it’s as simple as a quick upload to youtube or soundcloud. Not saying that that will ultimately get you heard, it’s just easier to reach larger groups of listeners these days with all the tech advancements.

I am not a fan. I do not like this new way of having to reach people rather than hitting the streets and actually talking to people, handing out cds, and posters. Also, I am not a fan of this new music. Although Hip Hop is very much alive and continues to influence every genre of music these days, The mainstream avenue for hip hop has gone absolutely out of control. It is a bunch of chaos in the form of freedom, although if you look behind the scenes, there isn’t much freedom as ownership of content and content control is pretty much denied as much as possible by all big record Label execs. The more money and control the artist have, the less money and control that the big time execs have over this industry. It’s pretty heinous but it’s also simple physics.

The worst aspect to all of this is the very racist culture in which this genre of music was cultivated. Because of this, the gatekeepers in the industry are some very rich white guys who have monopolized the industry by having first dibs in investments because this is a country that started in slavery. So, if the proprietors and creators of HIPHOP, and other genres, are black, they are 9/10 times coming from assetless poverty. It’s just, the assetless poverty isn’t too much to overcome, it’s the murder and racism that keeps us powerless. The mainstream industry reflects these very racist ideologies of black people in every way imaginable. Our music is overrun with drugs, violence, oversexualizations, and blatant disregard for black life, and it is supported by everyone because most also share this sickening blatant disregard for black life and culture. They call it Trap Music, and it is very much that, a TRAP.

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Pac and Big

As two very prolific figures in hip hop culture, I felt it necessary to do a blog on them. Also, my take on their relationship and what happened to them is kind of different so I wanted to share it. Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York coming from Jamaican Immigrant parents. I can relate to him a little because I am also first generation American born to a Jamaican mother. His lyricism and originality landed him at Bad Boy Records and from there, it’s pretty much history. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born in New York City, New York, to two black panthers. This pretty much dictated his early life and influenced him greatly. His first album was a slew of conscious black power material and if you compared that to his later music, you can see a huge contrast. I think this contrast is what ultimately ended his life, leaving the underground conscious community of hip hop, and entering the mainstream arena where he became surrounded by some very dangerous characters.

BUT, this conversation isn’t about their past, it’s about what happened to them. More than anything, the story of these two is a terrible tragedy. Not only to the fans, but more so to their families. It’s shrouded in mystery and in a sense they have not been allowed to die peacefully. There is no coincidence in their deaths and it is not some random thug that killed either of them. These were assassinations done in plain sight for the world to see. I’m not going to get into all of that but I will say this.

Although it’s been glamorized to make it seem like Biggie was innocent to Pac getting shot and that Pac was just pretty much blaming Big out of delirium, a few things point to something different. Im not saying that Big knew, but i will say he was too weak to do what was necessary to make that situation a situation that could have brought them together, rather than keeping his distance. creating some glamorized beef that worked out great for the establishment that thrives off of the chaotic disestablishment of black lives. Pac got shot going to see Big and regardless of the complications with the dangerous people Pac was involved with, Big should have did everything in his power to make sure Pac was good and to clear his name. But, if you pay attention to their music, you can see that their motives in the music industry were very different. As a child of a black panther, Pac was targeted from the day he was born, and regardless of all the gangster antics he got involved in, he stayed very true to his black panther antiestablishment upbringing. However, Big never had such a powerful calling over him and he was merely a pawn of Puff Daddy, to say the least. His, and Bad Boys, contribution to hip hop glamorized the image of hip hop and desensitized the culture. I think this also had something to do with why Pac went so hard on them, as well as being influenced and paid to do so. He was very antiestablishment and antigovernment but Bad Boy was none the sort so I felt he didn’t respect them very much either. Personally, I don’t respect them and I think rather than contribute something good or necessary to hip hop culture, they helped ruin it and brainwash the children. The whole beef was definitely blown out of proportion by the media for the sake of the publicity and the money that comes with this type of controversy. The beef was also used to help create a huge divide in hiphop culture, and ultimately, a huge divide for the black youth influenced by this controversy. It’s really sad that they had to die in this manner and that we had to lose two prolific “Icons” in black hip hop culture in less than a year of each other. RIP to them BOTH. Ase

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The 90s brought an era of extremely conscious music that trickled down from the political activism of the hip hop music of the 80s. There has always been a divide in the hip hop arena by way of mainstream music and underground music. The “mainstream” music is pop culture which is funded by record company’s and rich investors. Underground artist pretty much fund themselves but the peculiar thing is that the underground atmosphere is the heart and soul of hip hop that the mainstream investors take from and fund, as long as they follow the agenda of the investors. Thats where you get artist such as grandmaster flash and Afrika Bambattaa, artist who were very popular and pretty much invented hip hop, along with others of course, but remained underground and did not want to follow the agenda set up by the mainstream investors, no matter how much money they offered. They deserve much more praise in the arena of hip hop music and music in general, especially now where most pop music seems to have some type of hip hop vibe. The price of being black in America.

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Peace to the world and thank you for reading my blog. Im going to mainly post about underground hip hop here with a touch of Afrikan spirituality as they are both connected. On the surface, I wish this was more apparent but what is meant to be shall be that and the truth will one day come to the light. The concept of “Underground Music” in general is very peculiar because to me, music is music. It’s the controlled mainstream business machine that makes way for the music that is uncontrolled to be labeled “Underground” and what separates the two is the record companies and contracts. Nonetheless, on this blog you’ll get a lot a what you just read, philosophical explanations of hip hop conundrums mixed in with Afrikan sprituality and just underground hip hop music and news in general. Welcome to my thoughts and thanks again. P3ac3 and 1 love - TruMuzeic

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