What I've Noticed and The State of Hip-Hop

With there being a complete lack of music for me to review, I decided to address the state of hip-hop nation. I did discuss some of my feelings in my 2nd post. Read that at your leisure and govern yourselves accordingly. I also want to state a few things that I've noticed over time.

For all those people who have been banned from listening to any music, there is one individual that has taken over rap music altogether. He is the flavor of the year. He is the self-proclaimed best rapper alive. He is Lil' Wayne. By using the formula first introduced by Fabolous, he as turned the industry into his personal toy. By getting himself featured on as many songs as inhumanly possible(check out the mix tapes and tell me how he pulls this off), he promoted his own album to the point that it was certified platinum in its first week. He has been featured on songs from T-Pain to Kevin Rudolf to....(insert music artist here). From the momentum that this guy has, it looks like he will be the go to rap artist for quite some time. Now I know you're thinking that this is a bad thing for hip-hop. It looks like we are putting our hopes, dreams, and futures on this kid. And you would be absolutely right. We are doing just that. But, somehow (and this really surprises me) we seem to be turning for the better. Because everyone under the sun wants him to make a hit song, he has branched out of his rap comfort and tackled other genres by storm and succeeded.

There is another trend going on right now. In my mind I'm wondering what took everyone so long. Hit producers are stepping from behind the scenes and throwing their hats in artists as legit artists. This is not an original idea. The only people that you, the mainstream audience could probably think of that have succeeded in this task are Kanye West and Pharrell. But with the recent success of The Dream and Ron Browz, this could become something that could end up being a normal occurrence. Now, the people want more than just a rapper or just a producer. You have to do it all in order to be known as a force in this game. Browz and The Dream have a long way to go if they are ever going to make the impact that Kanye and Pharrell have. My guess, they have no chance in hell. Get back in the studio and do what yo do best, help others make it big.

Contrary to unpopular belief, hip-hop has made a little bit of a comeback since the Imus incident. Sales are slowly getting going back up and people are learning to forgive and forget. However, this genre will never be the same. That's a good thing. It shows that artists and promoters are starting to learn what kind of impact they have on society. They also learned that hip-hop is the perfect scapegoat. Anything that causes an uproar in the world will somehow be blamed on hip-hop. So, artists are a little more careful(and that is very little) on what they say. Music videos on the other hand, that's a completely different animal. Since I haven't watched on in quite some time, I can't comment on them.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. Leave a comment or something and give me your opinion. I could always use the feedback.