Real Talk Pt 2: Keep It Real Rappers

Whats good people! Todays topic is about rap artists and how they keep it real and how they dont and the effects it has. Me being an avid hip hop fan and music fan overall this is a subject I've been looking forward to touching on. With the current state of hip hop being so polluted with overnight rap stars its fairly easy to point out so many examples of artists Not keeping it real. I remember a time when hip hop was about lyrical content. Nowadays it seems that if you have the right beat, a catchy hook, and some style you too can be a rap star. The days of actually having any verbal skills is fading fast. Honestly if you were to take the music away from the majority of these artists you'd be left with the dumbest shit you ever heard. Music is another way of expressing art, its poetry with a beat, it holds substance and meaning. at least it used to. Being an 80's baby I've been privy to hear some of hip hops greatest from the beginning. Verbal beast who had to earn the respect of the people in order to even be heard or recognized. A time when there was no internet, no youtube, when you actually had to work for it. A time when artists put their soul into what they wrote and created classics that stand strong today, touching on subjects that actually mean something to people. Unfortunately those days are fast fading. Now dont get me wrong there were some frontin ass rappers back then too but nowhere close to now. For example is it me or is every rapper in the game now a drug dealer, gangster, and kingpin? I mean its as if every song is the same. What happened to real life topics besides dope dealing, and gang banging? I dont claim to be no expert or anything but I thought Real gangsters and drug dealers dont like to broadcast and advertise their business. Even when the known hustlers are out in the flyest rides, freshest clothes, flashiest jewels, and baddest women, they dont go around and say "I just moved 100 keys this week". So why do we believe or even accept these rap artists when they make songs and anthems about it? Come on people wake up especially the youth, they aint doing all that. To be honest 85% of these cats is bigger customers than they are dealers. The real drug dealers is ducking the feds, not on the radio broadcasting they business. Having a personal connection to the music industry I know that its very time consuming and basically impossible for someone who claim to be in the streets to be on tour at the same time. I have to use my boy term to describe these cats "fugazzi" basically meaning fraudulent. The sad part is the people are actually supporting it. Real talk if they was doing all they claim to be doing they'd be locked. They get caught with guns, weed, so why not moving 100 keys? Get serious, half these cats might of used to do they thing, maybe made a little money, but definitely not on the scale of what they talking about. Now dont be mistaken their were some Real G's in the industry, unfortunately they got bagged. I wonder if rappers just ran out of topics. Personally I get tired of hearing the same subject to a different beat. Now Im not saying that there are no Real artists in the game thats far from the truth, what Im saying is that there are too many Fake artists getting too much recognition which is shutting out the Real artists. I'd like to see rap rewind and go back to it being more about the lyrical than the beat, but I might be asking for too much. Ya'll remember when you could dance to a rap song? Play it around your moms without cutting it short. The good ol' days. Would I be far from the truth by saying there's a conspiracy theory of why rap has taken the turn it has? Let me explain. In the beginning rap wasnt considered a threat until it started to reach so many people of so many different backgrounds. Reaching them in a positive and negative way. Once that happened it started to gain attention from "the powers that be" but still not enough to be considered a threat. As time goes on rap became a billion dollar industry, an industry where a young man or woman can start in the projects and end up in an estate. Artists became influential and powerful enough to swing the vote. Now according to the "powers that be" this is a problem. In comes the change of the game. The artists who are actually trying to do something positive have to be taken out so that the cats who dont care about nothing but that paper can come in which in turn kills the influence of positivity. Thus creating a stronger negative influence than positive. Thats just my opinion though, I could be wrong, maybe Im thinking too deep, maybe. Long story short artists have more power than they realize, they can move a nation. If your an artist dont forget where and what you came from. If you feed your community with negativity thats what you'll produce. Even if you did come from a rough background the point is to do your part to make it better for the next generation as was done for us. It may have been rough but Im pretty sure slavery and segregation was alot harder. Please dont let a donation be your way of "giving back" its way deeper than that artists from the past made songs that reached so many more i.e. Marvin Gaye "Whats Goin On". This is our time its up to us to determine which way things will sway for our children. If all they here is how fun it is to sell drugs I dont care how good the parent is thats just another battle of influence that has to be fought for the parents and with it being displayed and promoted in every way it can thats a rough battle to fight. The future is ours, our creativity is ours and shouldnt be sold out for no amount. Creativity is very open and Im not saying that theres no room for negativity but when is enough enough. Expand your creativity, elevate your game. Its in our hands now, what are we gonna do? Keep It Real Rappers. This your boy Eddie "E_SLIM" signing off for today telling ya'll to Keep It Real. Real Talk.