Music has always been about a matter of taste. I can remember when I was young listening to my mothers music like Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Johnnie Taylor and Lenny Williams. Her and her sisters would be dancing like its 1977, mind you I was born in 1978. The thing I remembered most was her saying "This is real music, I don't know what in the world your listening to" or "Son our music had meaning, your music doesn't say anything". Now I want you to be aware that the music they were referring to as my music was the 80's and 90's hip-hop. The same hip-hop that is now considered to be the "Real Hip Hop", in contrast to the hip-hop today.
So what does this say? What is the purpose of this article? What it says is that each generation thinks and believes that the music they grew up on is more better, more authentic and more real than whatever the popular music of the day is. The purpose of this article is to tell people who say music today is less meaningful, less real, less authentic and is bitching and complaining saying real hip-hop isn't getting the light it deserve to either "Buy the Music or Shut The F*ck Up."
I have been in many arguments on-line with these E-Thugs always complaining that the real hip-hop is no longer here, that today's music is garbage and the industry only focuses on certain artist and and certain kind of hip-hop they repeatedly say they wish the old days were here. Here is the problem. You are the reason that the hip-hop you like is gone, you are the reason why it no longer ranks on the charts. In one breathe you bitch and complain about it not getting light, but in the second breathe you say you no longer buy albums and will download it or cop the bootleg.
You are the ones failing your so-called real music. For example, there has been a major riff between Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim fans. Kim fans say Nicki music is garbage, its wack and not real hip-hop. I see them all over the internet arguing with Nicki fans. But when Kim drops a single I don't see the support for her music from her fans, it never reaches the top 10 nad barely the top 100, her Black Friday mixtape made no noise outside the drama surrounding it. They claimed it sold over 100,000 copies in 18 hours but that claim was found to be false. Now when Nicki drops a single it reaches the top 10 in less than 24 hrs, and it's #1 within 48hrs.
I'm not saying Nicki music is better than Kims, or Kim's music is better than Nicki's but what I am saying is that Nicki fans support her music. If they quit spending time arguing on-line wasting energy on someone they don't like and support the artist they do, then it would be no issue with arguing on-line. For example, Nicki recent song "Stupid Hoe" has been garnering a lot of negative and positive attention in the last week or so, it has broken records reaching 4.8 million views within 24 hours. I bet alot of the 4.8 million views came from people who don't like her. It has received more dislikes than likes and here could be a reason why.
As you can see in the picture above TeamKim soldiers have been instructed to go on Nicki video and unlike it. A Lil Kim fan even went out of her way to create 6 youtube account just to dislike. But what Kim fans have done is given Nicki many extra clicks in that 4.8 million to break the record, and put money in her pocket. Who knows how many more Kim fans have done this. That energy spent on making those extra accounts could have went to buying a kim single off Itunes, or her sharing Kims music to another person to help get the word out about her music, or create more accounts and click on Kims official Vevo youtube account.
Let me end with this. Talib Kweli once said (This is not verbatim) the argument about whats real hip-hop or not is not relevant. Because at the end of the day, our album is on the same shelf, at the same store under the same genre both trying to sell.
So you wanna know why the music you love is gone, because you don't support it. So quit complaining "Buy The Music or Shut the F*ck Up"
