Seeing that I'm bored at work, I decide to write about an issue that Hip Hop (and the black community, but for my purpose mainly Hip Hop) has, that's Blame. Someone is always blaming someone or something on the issues. Although I can go on for day about what Hip Hopper and their fans love to blame things on, I will manly focus on what is suspected to have assassinated Hip Hop... The majors. Not only the majors but the greedy corporate Americans, or the TI's (Tall Israelis) or whomever you want to call them as well as the Radio and MTV and other media outlets.
I have a problem with this because I'm in school for selling people crap the wouldn't want without seeing something shiny or a half naked girl on a poster and also because I need something to hate on for today.
People(meaning the 3 people who actually visit this blog) don't you understand no one is to blame but yourselves. It is you the fans who allowed MTV to just be TV, it is you who allow the radio to play crap-ass music (sidenote: I'm glad WAMO was sold, they played it safe and got screwed anyway). All people need to do is make a stand. We loved Room Raiders more than TRL, we still called in to the local radio and request songs on our instead of complaining. We did this as fans. We as fans also let good music go unnoticed. We buy out of ignorance. We by Gucci for the brand name and because our favorite rapper said it or we seen him with it. That ignorance is carried over into our music buying. We by Jay because of the name brand, we by Wayne because of the brand and we see everyone else with it. But when Sandtogold first dropped her CD she wasn't cool enough so we casted her to the side until she got a co-sign from Jay... Which is just a collab effort between brands. This sickens me because we blame the radio for not playing good music but yet when we call into the radio we ask for "Swag Surfing" instead of some Mof Def. Its okay though we as hip hop listeners are some of the most uneducated bunch in the country so how can I expect anything different.
Don't worry, the Hip Hoppers did this as "artist" too. The Majors been playing ball like this since the beginning of time (I assume). Diddy been rapeing his talents(meaning artists) and Atlantic has always shoved pop down our throats. Where Hip Hop became a victim is when "Rappers" start being about the money being blinded by the Zeros. Alittle shopping around contracts or education would allow an "artist" to see that some or most contracts he does not have full creative control over what he makes. Thus making him a corporate bitch. And I refuse to feel sympathy to a person who allows them self to be someone elses bitch then complain about it later. Rappers it is their fault that they have a bunch of pop sounding trash that they say the "label made them create" which to me sounds like I don't have creative control over my music because I'm an idiot. Another blame game is "I was not marketed right" or "I had no marketing push" which to me means, hey maybe I shouldn't have signed onto some other rappers label, because no that I think about it, were in completion with each other. Also if an "artist" has no marketing push, why don't they come out of pocket and wait to buy that $100,000 blue diamond chain (it may just be me but I've never seen a raw uncut colored diamond).
I can't stand to hear someone complain and blame the state of music on the radio or the majors, considering that we are the only genre where this is an issue maybe that's because this is the only genre centered at the black community.
But this is just the opinionated mind of a music menace...
**Written from my Blackberry, so please ignore any grammatical errors
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