Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Meaning in babel?
Music has made a drastic transition from what it was to what it is now. Initially songs like "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow showed how the margins coped during hardships and exposed the squalor of the ghettos. Modern songs like (and I apologize if I sound prejudice against pop music) "Your Love" by Nicki Minaj can seemingly make random new words and rhyme them with others (no lie, look at the lyrics.) To me, it seems like a major regression. It reminds me of when we were in second grade and attempted to rhyme "orange" with "core-ange". Now don't get me wrong I don't oppose Hip-Hop Music as a whole, there are plenty of artists and groups on the outskirts of the genre who are bringing Hip-Hop back to its roots. Songs like "Uncommon Valor (A Vietnam story)" by Jedi Mind Tricks and "Show Me a God" by Tech N9ne, expose the undercoated atrocities of not just the African American Culture, but the American culture. So as a retrospect, Hip-Hop as a unit has not fallen to the shadows of a meaningful way of conveying events in the history of not only the individuals life, but the nation as a whole, However popular Hip-Hop has.
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