Spread Love F Hate
Who’s really to blame for this shit? I think everybody is. Even no action is action and those that have taken no action bear some responsibility. Record companies are businesses; businesses aren’t going to invest in what doesn’t make them money. The music people claim they want to hear, they don’t financially support or support in any other fashion. Everybody just feeds into the negativity, they roll with the mob shouting hip hop is dead, it’s a minstrel show, and it’s whatever. That time and energy would be better spent supporting an artist they feel does make the music they’d like to hear.
People come across talented artist from time to time on the net but they just acknowledge that those artist are talented and say stuff like, “I wish the radio would play more stuff like this” or “this is real music not that garbage that’s on the radio” but then they leave and go back to the garbage or they just leave period. Either they go back to listening to the radio, getting mad at what’s playing and turning it off, or they go back to listening to the same music they’ve been listening to for the past 20 years. Artists have been saying it in award acceptance speeches for the longest time, “I am nothing without you, my fans”. The radio needs listeners; TV needs viewers, artists need fans! Fuck the radio and not just fuck the radio in the sense that you turn it off and turn away from music but in the sense that you recognize the power you gave the radio and utilize that power to contribute to the success of what you do support.
People have to realize that if they bought shit on a stick stores would sell it, If they didn’t they’d lose their business to whatever store did. Toward the so called culture of “victimization” that people allege that so many of us in the “hood” have, they say stop complaining about how the white man’s keeping us down, stop making excuses, go to school, work hard, and can’t nothing stop us. We’re pretty much told to ignore the negative forces that have a profound amount of impact on our lives but when it comes to our music all people seem to recognize is the negative. People support it, they watch it, they buy it, they talk about how they love it, people hate it, they promote it through promoting their opinion of it, they talk about it, and they show it to one another. People that like commercial hip hop aren’t concerned with the music of artists they don’t like. You can’t even get them to talk about artists they don’t listen to. They’re into what they’re into, that’s what makes what they’re into so attractive, they make it seem like nothing else matters. We should take a page from their book and do the same. I don’t want to hear people talk about a problem unless they can show me a solution or at least have an idea of one. Don’t tell me about how much you hate 50 cent if you can’t tell me who you’re feeling instead.
You know what, if you find it difficult to find good music, I have a few suggestions:
Hip hop R&B
Cavalier
Empress TreZure
Supanova
Ihsan
Faro Z Frenchesca
Mc K-Swift
Joe Goldie
Najee Smooth
Conscious
Beloved
Star Power
Mercury
