Hip-Hop is love. Today's generation has allowed many different influences and styles to infiltrate the sacred world of hip-hop. Even though, people like to complain about how hip-hop isn't what it was in the 90's or whatever their case may be, I believe the music is flourishing. We have artist that range from Future to Mac Miller, Tyler the Creator to Chief Keef, Lil B to Kendrick Lamar, in what generation did we have that many abstract artist all flourishing under one genre? If you can't answer this question I understand why, because you can't think of one, and most of us reading this have only focused on two generations of music. The versatility in the game right now is crazy, and its beautiful thing. What really gets me though, is when people say if Big and Pac were alive they wouldn't let hip-hop be like this, I have three questions for that. Did Big and Pac tell you that? How do you know what they would co-sign? They wouldn't want hip-hop to reach a successful state? Feel free to post your answer in the comment box, but let's really get real. The hip-hop today has produced Forbes list moguls like Diddy, Jay-Z, 50 cent and Birdman, these guys have set the bar high for young, black entrepreneurs, and have given hip-hop serious staying power. Yes there's crap in hip-hop that even I don't agree with, especially the basic anthem of Snapbacks and Tattoos, and whatever new unmotivated garbage Wayne and the rest of YMCMB with the exclusion of Drake decides to drop each week, but damn we have so many artist to listen to that bring so many different things to the table, just sit back and salute the movement. If you listen to hip-hop you can't honestly say the culture hasn't influenced you, the culture has been a part of every fans growth and the messages inside lyrics, the beats, the way artist dress, the whole persona of the music is influential in itself. Other than the redundancy of the radio, and its refusal to play a multitude of different artist I honestly have no beef with hip-hop. Of course there's artist in the game I could do without but, artist I may disagree with musically, you may love. At the end of the day embrace the movement and salute the cause because Hip-hop saves lives. I have advice for the incoming crop of rappers, dare to be different and don't let the money influence your personal view of good music.
PS: Shoutout my bros Rack$et, Brian Cade and his Love City movement, Cam Major, Cyro Haze and their Fast Life movement, Jay Keys and the Gin Boyz movement and all the rest of the young dudes who got next. Check out these boys music because I promise you, you will know their name.
Currently Jamming: Shoot em Down x Johnny May Cash
O ya and my top 15 artist right now in no particular order: Drake, Boosie, Kendrick Lamar, Lil B, Future, Gucci Mane, A$ap Rocky, Meek Mill, Cheif Keef, J. Cole, Rick Ross, Nipsey Hussle, Dom Kennedy, Kanye West and Curren$y
