PURPOSE

The current demise of the youth with pseudo-hip-hop music is lacking role models, positive thinking, self-enrichment, and moral integrity.

I forgot my password for my old blog posts directing people to inexpensive ways to enter the music industry. I begin to realize many of the people reading the posts weren’t really trying to network or invest in their craft. I encountered various producers and disc jockeys that were only in the industry for the fame. I must say, if your goal is to be rich and famous then consider the hard work, sacrifices, and outcome of success.

I realized that most of today’s youth want the fast lifestyle of being famous. With a little fame there is money involved. The amount of money that comes with a little fame is debatable. I came from a time where hip-hop voiced the struggles of being stifled by political injustices, social outcasting, and impoverished environments. Gangster rap came when the world was quite hostile, rioting in Watts County, California spawned a more militant style of rap, and the gangsters became the town crier for impoverished neighborhoods. Somewhere around 2000-2004, the gangster became split into two categories: big time drug dealers and studio gangsters. For the sake of being famous, studio gangsters were designed by the lifestyle of real life gangsters (big time drug dealers, high level “enforcers”, and movie characters depicting hard knock lifestyles using any hustle to survive). The big time dealers were hustling out of survival as it has always been; since I was 9 years old visiting my grandma in the third zone of Atlanta.

I explained those two different lifestyle to provide the layout for the facts of how hip-hop has evolved into R.A.P; repeated assassination of principles.