Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I Know, Hip-Hop is Dead. But We Can Still Poke Fun at it!

So it's very apparent that anyone born before 1983 is aware that hip-hop is under a detrimental state right now. Every artist from Nas and Jay-Z, to more conscious artist like Mos Def and Talib Kweli have been ranting and raving about how "our" music has taken a turn for the worst. With the lack of originality and the "biting" of beats and lyrics, no matter what artist, hip-hop radio has turned into a modern day broken record.
Me and millions of others have gradually searched through the archives to find classic artists, such as Slick Rick, Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff, NWA, Public Enemy, De la Soul, Biggy, Jay-Z's (Reasonable Doubt), Ghetto Boys, Goodie Mob, etc. My fellow blogger at eclektic relaxation posted an interesting take on the future of hip-hop. Check out the post here.
Other than rambling about shit that we already know and feel, I found these images of Cameron's Rhyme Books from another fellow blogger at listentoleon. If you know anything about Dip-set, then you will understand how funny this is. I did not realize that these youngins' really feel that groups like Dipset represent real hip-hop.
Great Example: I was at my boyfriend's apt. listening to Slick Rick's "Hey Young World", and his little brother (age 14) goes "what the hell is that?". My first reaction was "what do you mean? what the hell is that? this is a classic". But I soon realized that he had no idea who Slick Rick was, which is understandable. But I tried to school him and he was not hearing it. I even reminded him of Snoop's version of "LaDi Da Di", and explained that it was Slick who was the originator, and the kid was like "Snoop aint' shit either". His favorite rapper is Camron' by the way. I was left dumbfounded. So I just wanted to shit on Dipset for tainting the minds of the youth for posing as "real" hip-hop.
Below are the lyrics to Cam's "Get Em Girls" along with with funny illustrations.
Please pay attention to the details of the Rhyme Book it's so funny!





1 Vain Comments:

Anonymous said...

"Sigh."