You know whats strange? I have access to download any songs. I have some websites that I belong to that I can get Cd's before they are even schedule to drop, and you know what I keep listening to? Old school music, or unsigned underground artist. I am at the point that I am praying for a resurrection of hip hop. Its weird because I try and keep an open ear to the streets and to be open minded to new artist and new movements, but it seems like hip hop has become a revolving door of gangster pop and the neutralization of immigrant hip hop. I think that hip hop is slowly declining and mainstream has over populated itself so much that every artist and every song has mass reproduced itself into its one worst enemy....mass reproduction.... I had a conversation with a fellow hip hop head who happens to be a starving artist, and he asked me what do I think the reason is that he can catch a break in the industry. I looked him straight in the eye and told him" Man, the game ain't changed ...naw dawg its the ears listening that have changed. We have become our parents, ranting of better times ,and gloating of our days of real music. Our parents Curtis Mayfield is our Jay Z ( Reasonable doubt not S.Carter) and their Marvin Gay is our Mosdelf...and so on......."
Brother I feel your pain... in order for their to be change in this...we need everyone to be liberated and freed from the commercial garbage and fads...we need a new leader.. not a recycled version of him....we need the real thing. Thats what makes sites like this so powerful.. One of you talented people most likely will resurrect the truth and set the music world on fire...untill then ....as long as the misguided keeps buying ...the Man will keep pushing.......
(dam I must be pissed...lol)