"I dumb down for my audienceMoment 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.
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"
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.
The Crowd can never dictate whats right. Music as a whole will never be appealing to the crowd, its only appealing to the individual. To say its appealing to the crowd means that noone is an individual therefore negating the word "hip hop". For if Hip Hop is the way the founders wanted it to be, than it would be a movement of individual, instead of a high school full of failures.
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