The sky might fall...

Hello world, hello world. My thoughts of the week in accordance to music. Jay-Z once spoke a whole lot of truth onto one track in particular.

"I dumb down for my audience
And double my dollars
They criticize me for it
Yet they all yell "Holla"
If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyrically
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But I did five Mil)
I ain't been rhyming like Common since
When your sense got that much in common
And you been hosteling since
Your inception
Fuck perception
Go with what makes sense"

Moment of clarity. The truth, Lupe Fiasco, also knows what is up with his track Dumb It Down. I've noticed this with plenty of people these days in the music industry. Why? These rappers these days just want to MAKE IT. Who doesn't want to make it though? Everyone wants to be successful, everyone wants to have thousands of fans, everyone wants to be the topic of every conversation. However in pursuit of this success, I've noticed a number of people abandoning their morals. Drake is an example. Only in my opinion. Love him, but the mixtape progression shows it all. Hello Drizzy! Lupe, Talib, MosDef, etc... music needs you guys. I wonder, where is music going to be 10 years from now? Everyday it seems like it's in this downward spiral, but what can we do when this is what we want. We as a society are buying this music, REQUESTING this music on the daily. We dance to this music, we blast it in our cars...so this must be what we want right? That's what it seems like, so that's what we get. We really just need be redirected into another direction.

See I realize this problem, but...what am I doing to be apart of the solution? Nothing. I don't want to sound like a contradiction, but I just wanted to express how I felt about this music game. The music we have now is...aesthetically appealing yes, but this is what their feeding us...and we can't help but accept it.

My whole spiel is that...rap music doesn't HAVE to always be about fucking bitches and getting money. Sorry Young Money, but this is all I get from your music, though yall may have a handful that slip through the stereotype. I guess those types of things are aspects in lyrics no one can ever get tired off huh.

& I love fun music, creative music, funny music, DIFFERENT music. Kudi, go ahead.

The sky might fall...but i'm not worried at all.

Good day.

I Met...

AUBREY. drake. (drizzy) GRAHAM.
The man who is killin it in the game right now. Wheelchair Jimmy from Degrassi. To tell you the truth, back during my Degrassi days, a rapper was never anything I pictured little Jimmy becoming. He grew up on TV and I grew up watching him, shoot...DEGRASSI, IT GOES THERE. That school was cursed. lol. But anyways, from Room for Improvement to Comeback Season all the way to where we are now... So Far Gone, there is obvious improvement. I read in an interview a while back that he started paying attention to hooks and playing around with melodies; this definitely has worked out for him. Women love melodies and, I would say, is one of the easiest ways to capture their attention. Lyrics, yes, are important as well...but put into the right formula (Good Beat + Lyrics + Hook) you cannot lose. Room for Improvement is lyrically heavy with influences from great lyricists, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Talib, etc it seems. I love them, but honestly the mixtape never demanded my attention and sounded very familiar in relation to every other "rapper" trying to get their foot in door, of which we know as "the industry." Then here comes Comeback Season...SUCCESS! Don't You Have a Man, Closer, and B!@$ is Crazy are only a few of the songs on the album that jam. With this album you see closely the attention to he paid to the melodies he included on various songs. Robin Thicke, Trey Songz, Goapele, etc are a few of which are featured on the album. A PERFECT balance of good lyrics, good stories, plus a nice melody to tie it together. Then finally...one day we have SO FAR GONE. His work doesn't consistently stay the same, it is never predictable. Each and every ablum has been an improvement, and with his latest album, he left the world in awe. Left everyone saying..."who is this young cat? Drake? Jimmy from Degrassi?" DRAKE is a name these days, you cannot go a day without hearing. Either you hear him on the radio, someones facebook status, or TV...his name, because of this mixtape, is definitely all the buzz. His flow has changed, could be Weezy influences? Who knows, but So Far Gone is all Drizzy and not the Drake we first heart on Room for Improvement. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, all I know is that So Far Gone is his best to date. You've set the bar HIGH sir, and we can't wait for Thank Me Later to drop.

Ah, btw. Austin concert...why so late? Oh well, he beasted both shows Austin & Houston. Big props for knowing all of MoCityDon!

ciao.