Rhymin'

Wow, what would this world be without music? I seriously do not think that I can even fathom what I would be doing with my life, because music basically is life. It expresses how a person feels, and we as people can always relate to a certain aspect of a song, genre, or artist. When my girlfriend was feeling upset, angry, or happy with me she would tell me to listen to a particular song and I would know exactly how she felt because certain songs spoke for her. Unfortunately, this is one of the reasons why we didn’t work out, because I need someone that can talk to me about their problems rather than keep telling me to listen to songs; I can only put up with that to a certain extent.

  I happen to like all different types of music from rap, to R&B, rock, alternative, even a little techno here and there; mostly rap thought. As I get older, I’m starting to become more calm and chill and lots of times rap music is too loud and fast for me, so I’ve been listening to more R&B. There is the new artist that a friend of mine got me hooked to named The Weeknd. He’s a singer from Toronto and sounds kind of like The Dream, only with a better voice. This mix tape he has out right now called “House of Balloons” is the hottest thing out right now in my opinion. It’s one of those CD’s that you can just put in and let play from beginning to end and let your head nod. He has some pretty nice producers because all of his beats are slow and chill; therefore, I don’t have a headache after jumping around and head banging like I would if I was listening to Waka Flocka or someone like that.

    Now, I listen to many different rappers, but there are some that I like way more than others. For instance, you won’t see my pick Waka Flocka over Lil Wayne or Eminem. It seems like nowadays they let just anyone in the recording studio and make a song about just any old thing. The newest terrible song on the streets is called, “Racks On Racks”. It is probably the most bullshit song I have ever heard in my entire life. Throughout the whole song all I hear is “racks on racks on racks, racks on racks on racks”, insinuating that he has a lot of money. They guy just sounds uneducated. I think that’s the problem with rap in today’s society. There aren’t enough intellectual rappers in the game that talk about meaningful things in their songs, it always about how much money they have, what kind of car they have, or how many women they have sex with. With that being said, the game is slowly evolving with new blood and smarter minds that are meaningful and helpful to society. It has never been the same since the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. Hopefully it will get back up that standard while I’m still alive. I would love nothing more than to listen to rap music until I die of old age, but if it doesn’t change, I will have to leave that genre alone for good.