Horrible excuses for hip hop.

A few months ago, in New Haven, was the best hip hop show I think I could ever see. Jean Grae, Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def & Talib Kweli (with a random guest appearance from M.O.P, not sure how that fit in, but whatever, that one song made the whole place shake). I have realized since then, that good, real hip hop, is dying, is close to dead. All this bullshit you hear on the radio, see on those joke stations MTV1-37, is a bunch of crap. Mainstream, pop bullshit that sell-out artists are making because the average 15 year old white kid will buy it. For example, Eminem used to be a great great rapper. He had dope rhymes, the beats were new and unheard, and he didn't try to sing like a bitch. Then he realized to market himself, he had to sell out. And he did. Same for most rappers. What happened to Snoop Dogg? He used to be hard, a gangsta, he was amazing. His flow to die for. Then he joined No Limit and christ, the rest is history. 50 cent is quickly turning that route. What the fuck is that song "Best Friend" all about? What a bitch! Seriously. Listen to his old, grimey raps. Listen to "How To Rob", his first popular song. He is already a sell out, I don't know who I'm kidding. The only thing keeping him real, at all, is Young Buck, who happens to have the best flow and voice of the group.

I guess my problem is that I'm running out of music to listen to. I started loving this after seeing WuTang in concert with Rage Against the Machine. From there, I was a hip hop head. I went out and bought Biggie and Tupac right away, and fell in love. Granted, there are higher reasons I can no longer count on them (even if a mixtape comes out every 12 days) but there was hope. There was De La Soul, and Pharcyde. Eric B and Rakim. They were all before my time, but they are timeless. Then came the new school, the aforementioned Blackstar, and the "underground" artists. These guys are well known, but not mainstream, so they will never be as popular as these bullshit artists like the Ying Yang Twins. Real hip hop, the Roots, who put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Jurassic 5, same to them. Most people on the east coast don't even know who they are. And it's sad. To see people driving around in their 95 Civics with 19 inch rims and a bumble bee exhaust, pumping the bass heavy dirty south terrible excuse for even a rhyme music. That shit makes me sick. Wake the fuck up, enjoy that which is good, for that is no good. If you are dying for good hip hop, I do my research, I know a thing or two, and I jump at any chance I can to find a new album by these guys. Because the bullshit comin out these days, is killing any hope of hip hop ever being big. And it's sad.