What makes good music? Why do you buy the music you have? If they play it on the radio, does it make your play list?
Not to long ago I received a track from an "artist" that has owned a MPC for almost 10 years. I was excited to hear what he had to offer considering I have yet to hear a completed track. To make a long story short, the music was wack, told I was a hater, and hip-hop has a new saturator.
This is for the green tea, tree smoking, 500-gig I-pod carrying, John Coltrane horn sampling, Miles Davis "Blue Note" inspired, I don't watch BET MTV or listen to the radio because they don't play that "real ish" complaining. Same Wu-Tang t-shirt wearing, discolored Cuban Links cassette carrying, I could care less about the range or fame screaming. Writing to The Source about their mic ratings yet a proud card carrying member for 5 years, album cover is of you on the 2 train headed to Brooklyn because that is the borough Kweli and Mos Def are from artist; your music is no better than these calcium deposit ring-tone artist clogging up the radio .
Just because you may not follow, the current trend of commercial music and/or fashion does not make you dope nor does your music push the envelope of creativity or artistry.
Let's be real, I wanted to emulate Kane, LL, Rakim, KRS, and Slick Rick but I was a child and I couldn't afford the jewelry nor would my parents pay for it. The next best thing was to go to the cheap route and buy the fake 4-finger ring, am I alone in this? Am I the only person happy that the dookie rope is back in style? I liked "I get money" (gasp) is my real music membership revoked? On the Sa-Ra, track "Thriller", Taz Arnold spits, " my g g f f trophies aligned". He described it as his braggadocio rap to his Fendi and Gucci collection; does that make him less of an artist?
The reality is wack music exists on both sides of the fence and as human beings; we have the un-canny ability to create our own reality. So before you grace us with the "realness", be prepared for critique by what others consider real.
