Shit Talk Right Philosophy
posted by on March 20 at 12:52 PM
Larry’s column has great news for hiphop! Its sales are plummeting. Last year the fall was an incredible 20 percent. This year it will be more. The hiphop bubble has finally burst!
This is why I’m not mad at total music sales taking a 20 percent hit last year, or a toddler’s handful of rap albums going platinum; I think it’s high time rap stopped looking like an easy route to riches—maybe those who truly don’t love the craft and the culture will become actual marketers, PR people, and white-collar corporate tools. Then the rest of us weird bums who have no choice but to do this shit will just be left with the task of trying to find a way to live doing the art we love.
Amen, Larry.
Death be Nelly. Death be all the sucker emcees who have a one-track mind like Diamond D’s Sally. Now is the time “to stop fakin’ the funk” and give “a fuck about the art.”
Speaking of art, I’m now committed to dubstep. It is the highest point at which new music stands.
Charles, I gotta disagree about dubstep. To me it just seems like another run of bored white rich kids from England trying desperatly to lay claim to a new genre.
Problem is, dubstep has very little in any way distinguished itself from all the genres it borrows from.
youre right charles--mizzel's positive take on the decline of album sales was the first id heard like that. pretty brilliant, and i hope hes right.
Perhaps this is a great oportunity for the Pacific Northwest to rise up and give Hip Hop lovers somthing to believe in. From what I can see their is alot of talent up and down I-5 from Portland thru Washington onto BC.
death to hip hop, that rap may live!!
or wait... maybe its the other way around...
you know what i mean. long live the less shiny rhyme.
Diamond D made classic music and Nelly's not nearly the problem he's made out to be. Get your heads around the fact that there is a demand for garbage that is being filled by smart folks with no second thoughts about feigning dipshit.
Hip hop as some precious faux religion is way more irritating than bad pop rap.
Larry's article says it just like it needs to be said. This little bit of gravy training his insight is already getting convoluted with identity driven hate though. Diamond D's just fine man. WTF?
Same with Reggae. I like the old days when Djs and toasters mixed up there popular hits and found the artistic side and soul searching with roots rock and dubwise. I like Beenie Man but after him it just seemed to spiral out of control and the mystic side of Reggae sounds was replaced with the million dollar sound of get the money I dont care if the piano sounds out of tune such as the over produce sounds of Sean Pauls 'Girl you Sexy' jamz.
It seems everybodies got that fake souless vibe when all they do is talk about themselves as Rich greedy bastards and their car, money and girls. Sometimes I have to just pop those out the tape deck and scramble for a better sound boy Dj.
like "Gimme Gimme Dj Gimme Gimme Dj throw me a test Throw me a test,
Some of dem a worry some of dem a worry No me no fret no me no fret
Stop it a dj gwon said stop it a dj gwon
Don Dada a Don da da Dadd Don da da."
ahh thats better, not so grating on the ears.
O me a test
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