My Bass Rocks

Stop playing yourself…

Continue on, to hear what I’m talking about..

In this day-and-age of hip-hop, the genre is WIDE open for change.  This is not the time to ride the styles of other artists in pop-music.  More specifically, the voice box nonsense needs to stop.  

I understand that T-Pain is rich off this instrument, but that’s been his style since day one.  He makes catchy (and good) pop-music, and hasn’t taken any radical steps to change his sound because he doesn’t need to.  The lesson learned here is, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it..”

Here’s where Kanye West fails.  He doesn’t understand the power he holds in music.  When “Stronger” dropped, I was excited…It follows the same recipe that made hip-hop so popular in the first place.  The Sugarhill Gang sampling “Good Times,” is no different than Kanye West sampling Daft Punk.  However, it’s pretty radical to sample techno in this day-and-age, which made “Stronger” so ground-breaking.

However, after hearing “Love Lockdown,” I’m incredibly disappointed.  Just as John McCain choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate was an act of desperation, so is the latest single from Mr. West.  In the past couple years, we’ve seen Kanye go from conscious back-pack rap, to king of the sweater-wearing hipsters.  His latest attempt at pleasing these hipsters is incredibly pathetic.  Kanye West doing shitty sing-a-long with a vocoder?  Are you kidding me?

The problem here, is that he has the power to make real change in rap.  He can take this dying (if not already dead) art and bring it back to prominence.  Now that might seem a little harsh, but it’s the truth.  If he really wanted to, he could probably get A Tribe Called Quest together to start recording again…He could probably do the same for Black Star.  But he chooses to make mediocre UK pop-music made for the cocaine-infused clubbing scene.

I know this message will never get to Mr. West, but I had to get it off my chest.  I understand that making money from music is tough in this day-and-age, but it doesn’t mean that you should sell your soul in the process.  Keep making beats like “Jockin’ Jay-Z” or “Flashing Lights,” and stop making shit music out of desperation.

“Love Lockdown” is not groundbreaking and should not be regarded as so.  I can only hope that this isn’t where hip-hop is stuck, because if I hear anymore music like this from “rap artists,” than Nas was right and hip-hop is officially dead.

Yeah, I said it…