Is hip-hop deteriorating to the fact it is all about image, glamour, bling and hot girls in videos. Real authentic hip-hop emerged from the streets, mainly from black neighborhoods and was aimed towards street audiences. We get a misconception that hip hop is living a lavish lifestyle instead of self-expression of the hoods it came from. The bottom line is that hip hop is living a lavish lifestyle instead of self-expression of the hoods it came from. An MC is supposed to express him or herself and a lot of artists do with only the few having any hip-hop in their way of expression.
To me if you are real hip-hop it comes with a purpose of lyrics from where you come from to originality and lyrical styles. This is regardless of your skin colour, you can relate to hip hop culture in one way or the other. The bottom line is that hip hop will live on if rappers think less about the money and more about their art. Look how the beats have evolved over the years from the drums and scratching to hip-hop nowadays. What am I hearing now? There are some good producers out their like e.g. premier who keeps it to his natural style and there are some who just produce McDonald beats.
By this I mean the fast ready made beats which are pushed out to make money. To me some of the beats are rushed causing it to have no backbone and making it a waste of beat. On my last note I feel hip-hop needs to go back to its roots to get that certain feel of lyrics and beats combined to bring it back to its roots to get that certain feel of lyrics and beats combined to bring it back to its original style. West Coast rapper Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding chose an unthinkable method to heat up a public feud with an East Coast rival last week. The 23-year-old, best known in the industry as the driving force behind the emergence of Slap song lyrics Rap for his hard-hitting lyrics, shocked insiders and fans alike when he released his latest album "The Pug of Thug" on Tuesday.
The album's cover features an image of Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding dressed only in high heels and a grossly oversized T-shirt. He also has a bib tied around his neck. But it wasn't the album's lyrics or high heels that had people talking. No, everyone seemed distracted by the gigantic "Property of Melva" T-shirt he was wearing to worry about some silly footwear.
Melva, of course, is the name of Busta Nut's beloved mother. Melva, who weighed more than 375 pounds, died two weeks ago after choking on a chicken bone. While Busta Nut and Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding have engaged in a fierce rap battle for many years, experts say insulting an artist's mother has long been taboo. "Talk about my speeding tickets, talk about my love of fruity alcoholic drinks, but don't ever say a word about my mama," said I Know Music magazine editor Ed White. "That has been the golden rule of rap since the jheri curl was in style." Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding's agent released the following statement after news of the controversy engulfed the rap world. "Busta's mama ain't even herre anymore, so why should he carre what I say about herr," Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding said in the release. "If I offended anyone with the album's cover that was my intention. I didn't get into this business to make friends. I got into it for the bitches." Critics have praised the album's contents but cringe at its cover. "If you look closely at the album cover, you can see grease stains on the bib and T-shirt," music reviewer Tiger Undo said.
"Those marks are a deliberate attempt to humiliate Busta since we all know by now that Busta's mother had difficulty using the phone to dial 911 while she choked because of the chicken grease on her fingers. Her inability to call for help contributed to her death and that's deep. Much deeper than the deep fried chicken she loved." The fuss hasn't hurt record sales as Sing-a-Ling-a-Ding's album has been atop the charts since its debut. Over the weekend he mingled with fans at several clubs and signed autographs while wearing a "Nobody Trusta Busta" T-shirt. The T-shirt sold out in just 10 minutes after being on.
