Monday, November 16, 2009

Hip Hop has been poisoned

Saturday Vision - Hip Hop has been poisoned:
"Forgive them hip hop for they don’t know what they are doing. They have alienated you, diluted you and re-franchised your heavenly branded nature, to meet their money oriented ventures. I love you so dearly, that’s why I am prepared to sacrifice your misguided children to secure you a reputable future I was not there at the birth of hip hop, but my guess is she was pure, adorable, admirable, and full of closure, hope, sentiment and above all, LOVE - just like a new born.
When I listen to old school hip hop, it’s pregnant with poetry and real social issues. I am baffled with what this generation has done to hip hop. It has ripped hip hop of her core values, causing a drastic degeneration into a sport characterised with rhymes of self proclamation.

GNL keeps saying “I do it for Hip hop” yet at his recently concluded Kikankane
album launch, there were many non hip hop artists performing! I cannot find reason to host
RnB and Ragga artists at a hip hop album
launch! Are you really sure you do it for hip hop or you are lost in the dungeons of commerce?

On the international scene, Jay-Z, the last of a dying breed of true hip hop disciples, on his latest album Blue Print III, released a hit, which had a controversial reception by the entire hip hop community.

The hit Death Of Auto tune (DOA) debunks the use of auto tune in hip hop and castigates rappers who use it in their music. A lot of people called Jay-Z a swagger jacker, a hater and an opportunist trying to sell more copies of his album.
I think this particular hit had everything right, especially the timing. It comes at a time when we have forgotten our roots, and yet our roots are essentially the backborn of hip hop"

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