defconcepts said:
...Hip Hop IS everywhere....commercials...clothing..language....Hip Hop artists jump into movies...clothing...commercials...radio.
Yeah, and maybe it shouldn't be. I just read this little rant about hip hop. I like rap, and hip hop....well, a lot of it, but seriously what makes 50 Cent think he's a clothing designer? Why are Method Man and Red Man on Speed Stick commercials (or whatever brand it is)? I understand your point about hip hop being here to stay, but seriously I'm so fucking sick of all these rappers, and "R&B" people getting into movies and shit. Yeah they're trying to make their money, but they aren't good. Ja Rule? Seriously? He's awful. His 3 lines in The Fast and the Furious were a fucking joke. I can get behind some rappers who act. Ice Cube for example. He's funny, and he knows what' up, but when DMX is in a fucking movie with Steven Segal it's hard to tell who's the worse actor. I'd rather hear Steven Segal rap, than watch DMX act.
defconcepts said:
Kiss is probably the only other group on earth that was able to market themselves and make huge money outside of their music.....
Everyone is talking about making money. When did music turn into this thing that people only get into for the money? What happened to it being about the music? All these fucking rappers, and "R&B" singers, and whoever else are gonna lose all their fucking money because they have 1 hit single and they're on Cribs with their 4 million dollar mansion, and their $300,000 car, and all their fucking million dollar jewelry. It's ridiculous. Fuck those guys. They need to watch the Behind the Music on M.C. Hammer! If you're P. Diddy, or Master P, or anyone like that who's worth $300,000,000 cool, spend all you want on shit, but if you're fucking Lil' Whatever and the Dumbshit Crew and you've had one "club-banger" on the charts, stop being a dick and keep ahold of your money. What the fuck?
Give me rappers like Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Mos Def, MF Doom, and people like that who don't rap about stupid shit and how much bling they have, and when they're gonna ride in their Escalade next.
Hip hop is here to stay, but it needs to get away from this vapid, pretentious, money-fest, and get back to what it started as. Rock and roll too! Seriously, when is the next Nirvana gonna come along? If music continues the way it's going it's gonna implode in on itself. The record companies wanna know why they're losing money hand over fist? It's because they are putting out shitty shitty shitty music! It's not because of downloading it's because of crappy artists like Juvinille (sp?), Creed, Puddle of Mudd, Ja Rule, Lil' John, and Ciena (the 1,2,step girl?), and a shitload of others. These "artists" aren't bringing anything new to the game. Where are the Tupac's and Biggie's? Where are the Rolling Stone's and the Nirvana's? Where are the true R&B sings like Aretha Franklin, and Marvin Gaye? They're gone for good, and they aren't going to be replaced by Chingy, or Simple Plan, or Ashanti. They just aren't. There are good poeple out there, making good music, but no one wants to hear that. Sure, Alicia Keys sells records and she's wonderful, but she's not Carol King and sure Ludacris is doing his thing, and I like him, but he's not Tupac. Something needs to change, there needs to be a revolution in music! So go out and buy something that you wouldn't normally buy, you hip hop guys go out and get an Atmosphere cd (it's good I swear), anyone into rock go pick up the new Bright Eyes cd's (Jan 25th). Come on everyone, let's bring good music back to the mainstream. It has to start somewhere, why not with us?
