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| Half White Girl |
There has been chitter chatter since the start of the 2000's about the state of Hip Hop and the decline in music from New York. It's become even more louder with the resignation of Angie Martinez from Hot 97. Angie left Hot 97 to go work for the rival station which is Power 105. Both stations are based in New York. However, they're received differently by their audience. Hot 97’s morning show with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds is losing to Power’s Breakfast Club's DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God daily. But when it comes to a rite of passage for up and coming new rap artists, Hot 97 is what you want your music to be played on. It's known for it's binding glue in the hip hop culture. Besides getting an interview with Angie Martinez, Hot 97 was a priority to new artists. But every dictatorship falls at some point in time Now, Hot 97 is being blamed for the decline in the culture. It's apparent that a younger generation is taking a liking to Power 105.
Why is that? Because they're only keeping up. Radio is business. Hip Hop is culture. The audience has so much power in what we want to hear from a radio station. For example, the audience will choose Trinidad James "All Gold Everything" over an Action Bronson record. With that being said, can we blame the South for their records being played too much? Is it even considered a "blaming game" at this point? Power 105 is keeping up with the evolution of Hip Hop. At this time in history, you'd be a fool to say hip hop isn't changing or wasn't meant to change. The only way to bring the old hip hop back is to ban all new music that doesn't fit the criteria so new generation has no choice but to listen to authentic rap....Now who in the hell is going to do that? *side eye* This era is extremely important in the hip hop culture because it's going to determine our culture's future. It's a war between good music and bad music right now.
Oh and FYI Hip Hop is not dead!!
Hip Hop didn't die, it changed. In my honest opinion, it changed for the worst. With today's music, you can't benefit from a Migos track or you almost get killed at a Chief Keef concert. But you do get that realness from Jay Z or those crazy dope verses from Lloyd Banks. Our hip hop culture is supposed to thrive and be something that be benefits us as a community and society. It's supposed to be a battle of wits and rhymes. It's supposed to be a sport of You vs The Other Guy. Don't get me wrong, I think we should have a few twerk songs here and there because we need to move to something in the club. But why do we have so much of that? Naturally, this brings me back to our blame game. I say we blame these damn black owned record companies. I mean you can almost expect a white ceo of a record company to put out some bull as opposed to a black one. But nowadays it seems like even the black head honchos in this culture can care less about what their community listens to or how it effects them. Hip Hop is based on profit now. Why do you think we see all the chains, money, cars, clothes, and hoes? It's what they authorize to the viewing audience. They rather put out someone who can be easily influenced by their contract dollar amount as opposed to someone who wants to stay true their self and culture. You honestly think a record company will back some of these underground artists? Only a few! And they have to be out here grinding for years and years! For instance, Kendrick Lamar has been rapping since 2003 and mainstream audience hears of him in 2013? His underground audience grew over those 10 years and they had no choice to make a buck off of him his way.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a half white girl from the south that actually pays attention to what's going on around me and the damage that's being done.
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