POPULAR HIP HOP.

EVERYTHING THAT WAS ONCE TABOO, BECOMES POPULARIZED, AND TURNED FOR PROFIT.  ONCE PROFIT IS MADE, IT IS MILKED FOR ALL IT'S WORTH, USUALLY BY CORPORATE GREED AND THOSE WILLING TO CONSISTENTLY SELL OUT THEIR EFFORTS.  THIS IS WHY HIP HOP SUCKS NOW.  IT'S NOT PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO LIVE IN THE GLORY DAYS OR TRYING TO HOLD ON TO THEIR YOUTH.  HIP HOP IS A WASH NOW.  IT'S SIMPLY A WAY TO MAKE MONEY, QUICK MONEY.  HIP HOP, WAS AT ONE TIME, THE EXPRESSIVE FRUSTRATION OF THE YOUTH AND IT HELD NO REGARD FOR ANYONE.  THE AGGRESSIVE NATURE OF HIP HOP, WAS FUELED BY SO MANY PAST ICONS THAT STOOD FOR SO MUCH AND PEOPLE WERE SAYING THEY WERE NO LONGER GOING TO IDLY SIT BY, WHILE THEY WERE OPPRESSED.  HOWEVER, LIKE ALL CHILDREN, WITH MISSING FATHERS, HIP HOP HAD NO GUIDANCE AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF HIP HOP AND THOSE THAT FOLLOWED, SIMPLY TOOK A MUCH SIMPLER ROUTE.  THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MAKING MONEY IN HIP HOP.  THIS IS THE OPPORTUNE TIME TO DO SO.  ONCE YOU REACH A CERTAIN LEVEL, YOU SHOULD BE TRYING TO BRANCH OUT INTO MULTIPLE EFFORTS.  IT'S CALLED LONGEVITY.

HIP HOP TODAY, IS CLUB MUSIC AND WORK MUSIC.  KEEP FUCKIN AND KEEP WORKIN IS THE OVERALL MESSSAGE IN HIP HOP TODAY.  THE TERMS ALL BECAME GENERALIZED AND HOMOGENIZED, AND PEOPLE JUST STOPPED CARING AS MUCH.  AFTER BIGGIE AND TUPAC, PEOPLE SAID HEY, MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP BEING SO VIOLENT.  THEN AFTER THE YEAR 2000, PEOPLE SAID HEY, THE WORLD DIDN'T END, LET'S PARTY.  IT HAS BEEN A DOWNWARD SLOPE SINCE THEN.  IT'S LIKE THE MOVIE IDIOCRACY, BUT IN HIP HOP.  NOW, THE MUSIC, MINUS WORDS, HAS BECOME PROGRESSIVE AND EXPANSIVE.  THIS IS TO BE EXPECTED WITH TIMES CHANGING AND THE BLENDING OF DIFFERENT CULTURES IN HIP HOP.  HOWEVER, LYRICS, HAVE TAKEN A SERIOUS HIT.  IT'S MONEY, PUSSY, DRUGS, AND FEELINGS, OH SO MANY FEELINGS.  WE LIVE IN A DIFFERENT TIME, BUT, THE SAME AIR OF STAND YOUR GROUND DOESN'T REALLY EXIST ANYMORE.  WHEN I SAY THAT, I MEAN AS A COLLECTIVE HIP HOP GENRE.

HIP HOP, OVERALL, DOESN'T REALLY SAY MUCH THESE DAYS.  YES, I KNOW THERE ARE SOME, AND YES, YOU CAN PROBABLY COUNT THEM ON ONE HAND.  THERE ARE LESSER KNOWN HIP HOP ARTISTS, WHO HAVE NO DEAL, OR NO BACKING, THAT ARE ABSOLUTE GREAT LYRICISTS, BUT, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THAT.  THAT'S NOT GONNA PUT YOU IN A GOOD MOOD ON THE WAY TO WORK.  THAT'S NOT GONNA SOUND GOOD AT THE CLUB.  NOBODY WANTS TO BE PREACHED TO.  NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.  ALL THE OLD HIP HOP HEADS, THAT ONCE RULED THE HIP HOP LANDSCAPE ARE TRYING VERY HARD TO STAY RELEVANT.  NOT MERELY FOR MONEY, BUT, FOR DIRECTION.  WE ARE PRODUCING ANOTHER GENERATION OF HIP HOP INFLUENCED PEOPLE, WITH ABSENT GUIDANCE, AND THIS DOESN'T CONCERN ANYONE?  THIS IS WHY WE HOLD ON TO PAST ARTISTS, THEY TAUGHT US THINGS.  THEY UNDERSTOOD OUR PLIGHT.  TODAY'S MUSIC, IS MEANT FOR RICH KIDS, AND WANNA BE RICH KIDS.  THE CORPORATE LANDSCAPE HAS A HIP HOP SOUNDTRACK, AND YOU HEAR IT EVERY DAY, ALL DAY.  

THIS IS WHY UNDERGROUND HIP HOP IS SO IMPORTANT.   -  925