HIP POP

Travel. I am fortunate enough to have a job that afforded me the opportunity to do this. I have been coast to coast as well as north to south. Along my travels I saw one common denominator among my people. Music. Our beloved Hip Hop. It doesn't matter where you are in this country, the same ten hottest songs will be bumping on the airwaves. This same music is leading to the downfall of our people. Flashback. Late 80's. Yes I'm old school. A lot of the music that was played raised the conscious amongst our people. From Public Enemy to KRS-One, these pioneers said and stood for something when the grabbed the mic. Fast forward to 2007. What the hell is going on? From the shoot them up bang bang to the bling bling my rims are bigger than yours. What happened to the music? Again the dumbing down of our society. Hip Pop, R&B or whatever they call it now is nothing but pop music. Turn on the radio and what do you hear. Some dude speaking about what he got, how his is bigger than yours and how many b****** he can get or got. Wow. Now look whose listening to it. The youth. The poisoning begins at an early age. This might as well be black on black crime. The dumbing down continues. Ask any high schooler what the last book they read. They don't know. But I bet they know all the lyrics to Little Wayne. I'm not killing all of Hip Pop some of it is cute. Half the time us as adults get caught up in the beats rather than listening to the lyrics. Remember go shorty its your birthday. What was 50 cent talking about in that song? Now what can we do about it? Who can we hold responsible? The record companies. I don't think they will go for that. With 7 out of 10 songs on the billboard top ten Hip Pop and R&B related I don't think they going let that money get away. Can we go to the artist? This might work but how many of them are willing to lose there street cred in order to uplift our people. I believe it will take one hot artist that is out right now and one super producer. Timbaland do you hear me. I think if they buck the trend and show you can still make money and uplift our people at the time the other artists will jump on the bandwagon and do the same. Hip Pop is filled with followers. We just need someone to lead.........................

The Beginning

Writing. I used to write back in the day. Local Stuff. College newspapers and stuff. Always heavily edited. I was never able to get my point across. Then I guess life got in the way. Just the ordinary everyday BS. I'm taking this writing back up to keep me sane. Moved to a new state. I'm trying to remain on the low to avoid the same life I had back in the NYC. I'm a little older and a lot wiser. I'm just focusing on things that matter in life. Being in a new place with lots of time on your hand makes you see the world in a different light. Being in touch with GOD also enables you to see things at all angles. I think he opens your eyes to a lot of the things of the world. I need to put this out there? Is anybody seeing what I'm seeing. The Blatant Tomfoolery of my black people. The prejudging, the guilty before innocent. Is it me or do you feel that there is no hope for the youth of tomorrow. To me it seems over the last seven years everything is getting dumbed down. I could blame it on Bush but that would be to easy and a whole other story I don't feel like touching on right now. I think a perfect storm hit my people. Between children raising children, the music and the crazy lifestyle my people want to live. Its just plain crazy, and whats more crazy is where do you start. Where do you begin? Who could you teach? It bewilders me. I try to speak to the youth but they get on me and tell me I'm old school. Well thank GOD for technology. I'm starting this blog to reach out to people out there. To see if anybody is feeling the same way I am. And what we can do to uplift our people. This is just a start. I hope it can lead into something big. If not I know I tried and played my part. More to come next week. I'm open to suggestions............