Hip Hop is Dead

My favorite musician of all time, Nasir Jones aka "Nas", titled his latest album "Hip Hop is Dead". The album goes on to criticize how Hip Hop is on the cusp of extinction because there are one too many MIMS, DJ Unks, and Dem Franchise Boys out there. As catchy as all their music is and how it makes people want to dance, music is supposed to have some substance. Not necessarily a lot, just some.







Why you may ask why I am bringing up an album that was released around half a year ago? The answer is quite simple: T FREAKING PAIN. If you listen to any radio station it is pretty hard to avoid "Buy You a Drank," featuring none other than DJ Unk from "Walk it Out Fame." If we're going to declare hip hop dead, why is nobody calling for the death of R&B. Rhythm and Blues. T Pain cannot sing. He has hit singles. Let me tell you why I am hating. He spells drink as "drank" so that his line can rhyme with bank. This bothers me immensely because both the word drink and the word bank can be rhymed with a gazillion other words. If he was trying to rhyme a word that was multi syllabic, maybe I would be ok with it. A machine sings all his lyrics. Machines lack Rhythm and cannot feel the Blues. There is an essential disconnect somewhere there. R&B may also soon be dead.

That is all.

-y