(Soulja Boy in his oversized hoody handpainted by his little cousin)**Disclaimer: These are strictly my opinions. If you fall into any of these categories and you think im talkin about you then don't take this so seriously. If you do then...fuck it...who cares! Nobody else seems to have the balls to speak their piece in this city anyways.**
What an absolute shitty year in music. 07 will be marked as the year of dumb rap music. First we had everybody tryin to "Superman that hoe" and now you don't even have to have a good voice to sing (ie. T-Pain & Sean Kingston). These muthafuckas are gettin paid by coonin around like fuckin idiots! Do you know how many times I wanted to smash someones cell phone because they had a Soulja Boy ringtone. I can't even count. Money definitely is the main motivation for all these musicians these days. Record labels are just pumpin out these one-hit wonder artists, knowing damn well they won't be around next year. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and place for that kind of music but I dont wanna hear that shit all the fuckin time. I am a big fan of lyricism, creativity & content, something that is absent in a majority of music today. Here is the formula for a rap album:
-have a big name producer do all your production
-get a whole bunch of guest appearances (since you can't sell records just by your name alone)
-do a stupid dance track
-have some overly animated R&B croony singin your hooks
-do a song about the drug game
-do a song about the hustle
-do a song about how much money u got
-dead homie track is a must
-rap about bitches and hoes then do a song about how you respect women
this is pretty much it went it comes to rap music. same shit every year. Pretty boy thugs and and rockstar wannabes will prevail in 08. Act like an ignorant, overpaid, trap stars then you'll die broke and just a memory. Oh yeah a message to all you rap guys: You aren't rockstars!!! Real rockstars will beat your ass then do a line on your mamas coffee table. Travis Barker and Fall Out Boy are not the only rockers out there just because you see them hangin out with Kanye or Jermaine Dupri. Ask any of these guys about the Ramones or The Clash, fuck it even Alice in Chains...they'll be left speechless.
Here is my list of rappers that I'm not tryin to hear next year because you won't progress the artform:
-Lil Wayne (ya'll are mad at me lol!) - so called "best rapper alive". Prove that to me. I have yet to meet someone who can change my perception of this dude. He sounds like a toad and he rhymes about nothing. I can see how someone who didn't graduate college can like this guy but for more than average hiphop listener, this guy is just so so. Prove me wrong. Im still waiting on that "genius verse" that everybody talks about. It'll probably sound like one of Kweli's throw away filler verses minus the "swagger". When you claim to be the best prepare to get your self proclaimed title snatched off your head. And you all know what's gonna happen. He's gonna do a diss track about how he's been in the game so long and that he's from the "murder capital". What does that have to do about rhyming...uhhh absolutely nothing!
-Soulja Boy - walking joke
-DJ Khaled - will continue his "we are the best" in every 10 man posse cut
-50 Cent - retire and let some of the other dudes shine
-Yung Joc - will have the same nursery rhyme flow in 08
-Jay Z - will do another album about the hustle
-Plies - uhhh yeah. Fake-ass Trick Daddy
-TI - will try to claim how he's the king of the south like he always does
-Jeezy - same thing
-Shop Boyz - die already
07 was also the year of the DJ. Shit Lindsey Lohan is a DJ now. WTF!!! Almost all the dudes spin the exact same shit on their little laptops (Serato is cool but I've seen DJs use nothin but a laptop ie: GirlTalk) You can have your whole set pre-recorded and you need to do is sit back, click the mouse and wave your hands in the air while hundreds of 18 year olds go ape nuts over some Justice remix of Belinda Carlisle. The rave that everyone made fun of now runs the scene. I've witnessed my favorite "Scratch DJs" turn into overly hyped, booty bass, electro rockin, laser sound effects button pushin celebrities. You got grown ass men walking around lookin like a box of fruit loops sweatin to the 90's. You know it actually wouldn't be that bad but its just that EVERYONE is doin it. No joke! I can't tell these dudes apart. Im waiting for UFOs and candy necklaces to come back. Oh yeah in order for you to be any kinda rapper in this genre you have to sound like JJ Fad. Booty Bass beats are a must, as well bamboo earrings and leggings.
R&B is shit. Every video is in slow motion in the club and in some baller-ass house. The only way you can have a hit is to have a rapper in your song. Tracks like "Bartender" and "Buy you a drank" are for recovering alcoholics. In my opinion the only guy that can get away with all that shit is R. Kelley. Im waiting for the New Jack Swing to make a comeback bitches.
Rock is now Pop....next
Pop is now electronic. Look at Timbaland. He can't rap to save his life anymore so he remixes everybody elses shit with bleeps and beatboxes. Fergie wishes she was JJ Fad and Nickelback sounds like country twang...I kinda wish boy bands were still around lol! (not really)
Fuck the radio, fuck the mixtape, fuck the one leg hipster dance and fuck the exploitation of good indie artists. They're independent for a reason. So they don't have to let some 80 year old A&R telling them what to make songs about. Music was an art, now its a business.
oh yeah I hate Gym Class Heroes lol!
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i thought i was the only one who felt this way.
i do like Weezy F. Baby. but i do not think he's the best. he's just ok. but ya gotta love this dude's grind ethic.
oh- and i have absolutely no opinion of Gym Class Heroes. everytime i hear them i slide into a state of confusion and all i can think is "what the fuck."
I HATE SERATO. i know it makes things easier for DJ's but then you end up with shit happening like it did to my big brother Applejac when Buddah Tai knocked over his shit at the fake ass MF Doom concert. and with serato, my 3- year old daughter can be a dj because she knows how to click a damn mouse. i YEARN for the milk crate djs.
2007 was full of dumb shit in music. i have absolutely no comment about any of those artists, because i just don't. the slow motion with everybody looking like they swam in baby oil video was created by Hype Williams in the early 90's and for some reason in order to make the top countdown its a must. plastic hair, shiny boobs, its all coonin' if you ask me. but then again mtv and bet wouldn't play it if regular everyday things and people was in it. fantasy sells.
I have to quote Slum Village on it all- "as T.A., its all bullshit."
lets get great in 2008.