Hip Hop, R&B and Rap Artists
I was Just going through YouTube and looking for the best
thing to blog about. So I decided to
reminisce the love I had for music.
Yesterday’s music is gone and the craft has gone real deep with
materialistic things and is all about “money, cars and *oe’s and this is what I
call garbage. I am not trying to be
negative or defame anyone’s character at all, but what are we teaching our
future? Simplicity and easy listening is
fading away. I hear and read about
fights against and between label and artists.
It is so ridiculous how the industry has become. Oh and how about videos and lyrical content
in music now a days. Artist coming from
different angles led alone some things they rap and sing about gets perceived
differently to some.
Not all of us understand Hip Hop, R&B and Rap artist's and their
language. As we all know Hip Hop, R&B and Rap
had been around for a little more than 20 years. What ever happened to musical expressions through dancing
“Break Dancing”? How about Poetry? Okay,
so I am still doing my own personal research and I am not saying all new music
is bad, I feel that most of the lyrical contents are not as they used to
be. What about all the “Rivalries” and
“Disses”? Not only is has gotten personal but now its televised and or shout
out to the media in many viral ways.
Remember VH1 and MTV when Hip Hop, R&B and Rap started
to get audience worldwide? Let’s not
forget new media technologies that embrace our daily lives today for example
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Who
remembers MySpace and when Hotmail was in?
As a proud parent of two little women, I always monitor what they listen
to. Today’s radio has been open to more
new words that I can even collect in my own personal registry of a
dictionary. I do believe in the hunger
that anyone has for the music industry.
I for one am a 70’s baby, so I have been through changes when it comes
to music and what it was in yesteryears and what it is now. This really shows my age, but I am a proud
ambassador of positive attitude will reflect today’s youth. It is real hard for me to write about these
changes because change can be good and then again it can go sour for anyone in
this industry to include myself. As a
model, promoter and future manager for independent artists, I could get stuck
between a rock and a hard place because of how I feel about lyrical content and
perception with lasting impression of current and incumbent artists.
When I asked my 12 year old daughter what were her thoughts about the music that she hears today, her reply was "Well mommy they play a lot of bad things on the radio and they curse too much" I was at a wow when she said that. Then my 14 year old mentioned they don't talk about much but "smoking weed and flashy cars, so what happens with the real lyrics mommy? I couldn't answer her. That right there is real BAD when a child expresses their feelings about grown up music on radio and television. Like I said before "Positive Attitude Reflects Today's Youth" Attitude meaning everything that you are about and walking that fine straight line with everything in life, not have to be perfect but setting that example and being that great role model for our future.
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