Yoh Issues: I Killed Hip-Hop

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Record Labels

• ·       Radio
• ·       Rappers
• ·       Producers
• ·       Money
• ·       Soundscan
• ·       Comparisons
• ·       List
• ·       Love & Hip-Hop
• ·       The bullet that took Biggie
• ·       The bullet that took Pac
• ·       The internet
• ·       Youtube
• ·       Wordstar
• ·       Nas
• ·       Limewire
• ·       Blank CD’s
• ·       Live Streams
• ·       Hypebeast
• ·       Autotune
• ·       Chief Keef Dreads
• ·       Cheap Microphones
• ·       Cheaper Computers
• ·       Fruity Loop Torrents
• ·       Attempts at bringing the 90’s back
• ·       Blogs
• ·       Magazines
• ·       Bloggers
• ·       Emcees
• ·       Weed
• ·       Cocaine
• ·       Mollies
• ·       Alcohol
• ·       Jordan’s
• ·       Myspace
• ·       Twitter
• ·       Facebook
• ·       Black Planet
• ·       Yes Men

What you just read is a list of things that I feel could easily be trailed and convicted for the death of hip-hop. Most of those items came about when the era changed, when the 90’s became nothing more than a photograph we occasionally pull out and reminisce over. News flash guys, it’s not coming back.  Let’s just be completely honest with ourselves, no one killed hip-hop, no one can truly shoulder the blame for what the genre and the music has transformed into. It’s evolution, and you can’t just press B and cancel out the change. I’m sick of stating this, I’m sick of publications beating this dead horse, I’m sick of us just being unable to accept the fact THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH HIP-HOP that we can’t blame ourselves for.

Oh we complain about what’s on the radio as if we weren’t smoking on Keisha and riding around with that Nina this summer. When’s the last time you called a radio station requesting your favorite artist? We complain about album sales but we won’t spend a dime on the artist we spend hours online arguing is the best thing since Wu-Tang. Oh and my all-time favorite, We love, JUST LOVE to spew these outlandish, ridiculous, bull shit opinions what we consider what “real” hip-hop is. Last time I checked hip-hop was bigger than lyricism, bigger than radio singles, bigger than sound-scan, hip-hop is bigger than just a musical genre, HIP-HOP is a CULTURE. From the way we articulate our words, from the way we dress, from the way we even tweet have all been affected by that culture. How can something die if it touches each and everyone of us on a daily basis.

I’m ranting because what continues to get a bad rep isn’t what’s perceived. Albums are being sold, shows are being sold-out, rappers, emcees, artist, producers, engineers, managers, ect are living off hip-hop. We just complain, complain, and complain about whose underrated, about who deserves this, and who deserves that. Please shut the fuck up. Yes it’s seen some dark days, and even then we had something to enjoy. ENJOY the music. It’s too many ways to obtain the good stuff for you to cry, bitch, and moan on the daily basis and even the bad sounds good under the right intoxication. Accept the change, support the love, and stop acting as if you aren’t enjoying this wave.

It’s flawed like every other movement to exist in the world but god it’s our movement. It’s our time, R.I.P to the 90’s. Lastly, before you ever again fix your lips to say “hip-hop is dead” ask yourself what you have done to keep her alive. Oh and if you think by rapping about being the savor, blogging about the flaws, and constantly attempt to force your stupid ideology on others is going to change anything then I’m sorry to inform you but it won’t. Not now and not ever. This is indeed a rant from someone who slept through an entire semester of AP literature so WTF do I know, take it how you please. I hate you all- Yoh aka The Black Gohan. 

Side Note: Aye New York, how you guys gonna get upset over the comments made by a grown man that wears trukfit. His opinion is forever voided into the dark abyss along with every song Shyne has put out since his release.