Showing posts with label hip hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hip hop. Show all posts

Friday, October 15, 2021

My Take on Current Rap Music

I get it. Rap music is the pulse of the people. But lately, it seems more like drugs, sex,rock and roll and nothing in between. Im hoping for a Little Brother album, a Phonte solo album, some Oddisee. Or anything else with something more in it. Can I get an album with a woman's perspective on something other than what they talk about? How many more songs about hating hoes and bitches can a person write about?  Really?  For women,  it seems like the only thing people will listen to is how she is in bed, how she handles her man in bed, and what she does in bed, while shaking off other women who might want her man. Thats it. 😑 🥱

I guess the thing that brought on these feelings was me watching Rhyme and Reason on Netflix a few days ago. I got depressed because it seems like a lot of new music isn't really about telling your truth. There are people from all walks of life trying to be down with whatever they think people want to see and hear, and they're willing to portray that just for securing the bag and nothing else. Authentic stories are missing in a lot of music now. Its like there is nothing but lies coming from people who may not live like that for real. People seem only interested in the flex, and not bringing anything else to the table.   Its far, few and in between for a good story to be told. These days, I listen to a song, and I'm not moved by anything they talk about. It's a big ass remix. Even artists with no auto tune do this to me.  It isnt just the artists half my age either. The ones 40 and up make me feel this way as well. Even conscious rap gets on my nerves.  

Maybe I need to dig deeper into the digital crates a bit more, I dont know. But something's gotta give. Does anybody have any insight on why I might feel this way as a rap fan? I can't really call it.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

STORMZY [@STORMZY1] - SHUT UP



One thing I've noticed is that the UK has an interesting Hip Hop scene. A person could get more creative with their sound and delivery. I dig this.


STORMZY [@STORMZY1] - SHUT UP


Soundcloud: 

https://soundcloud.com/stormzy1

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Film,Soundtracks, and Black Music


Every so often, I'll watch a movie. And when I watch a movie as a music fan in general, I have to hear the soundtracks. For me, a great soundtrack could make or break a movie.  As predicted, a bad soundtrack, could really piss me off and make me become highly uninterested in a movie or show no matter how good it might be.

For example, Check out this trailer for The Interview:




This trailer is laced with Black music, and so is the entire movie. But the context of the songs is so very wrong. What does EnVogue's "Free Your Mind" have to do with anything in the movie? I saw this film and all I came away with was, what does Syl Johnson's "Is It Because I'm Black" have to do with the main characters walking up to the fortress?  That song is a very heavy song that was done unjustly by inserting it into a movie that falls into a comedy genre.  This had some great potential, but all of the misplacement of Black music, and the fake Black slang was a huge turnoff for me. I had to give it one star in hopes nothing like that would show up in my Netflix feed ever again. 

Another instance is the Deadpool trailers. Here's the first one




Here's the second one:




What does Salt N Peppa's "Shoop" have to do with the trailer? Does he sex somebody down in the movie?  In this case, I 'd have to see the movie to find out, but I suspect it doesn't fit in the entire movie. That placement of Shoop really turned me off. 

It's like the people who use Black music in their movies have no concept of context. It's like they go, "Dude! Here is a really cool Black song to put riiiight here! It'll be, like sooo awesome!"  Except with The Interview, they decided to create something of a White Blaxploitation film sprinkled with horrible slang.  It's like they don't really know anybody whose Black for real, and they had no Black writers, but somebody told them to "Black it up and make it feel more, ummm urban, ya know? Kay, thanks guys!" And a lot of the films have just one Black person in them. I don't remember if there were any Black faces in The Interview, and I probably won't see Deadpool because I'm an asshole like that when it comes to soundtracks. 

All I ask is for some accurate context for the placement of Black music in these films, especially if the show has no Black people in them and has Black music recklessly strewn throughout the entire thing. 

Am I asking too much?  Knowing the history of this sort of thing, I probably am. 




Thursday, November 19, 2015

X - Catch The Beat

Tryna catch the beat.

 

 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/itsxmusic/catch-the-beat

 Website: www.itsxmusic.com