Shabherish – An adjective describing a rachette female or a
poorly attended to appearance or state of affairs. It sounded authentic didn’t
it? Well I guess anything can if you put enough effort and money into it. So my
dream state came to life this morning and reminded me that as far as recent
musical entries go creativity and good music are dying off fast. I watched 106
& Park for 6 minutes and got 240 seconds of commercials squeezing 120
seconds of some song by Wiz Kalifa where he was wearing biker shorts and a
beanie and singing through auto-tune. I miss music that portrayed artists as
factors or powerful figures maneuvering through an exclusive and/or forbidden
entertainment medium and getting rock star bucks in the process. Now the lyrics
are watered down to the point that a sing songy catch line for the entire song
passes for music. And your memory isn’t even challenged to remember every word
of 3014 different verses. Remember Rappers Delight or Tribe Called Quest
Scenario?
Now “We Dem Boyz” for 2 minutes in between Community College
ads passes for programming. Am I wrong? Or does it seem like they (the powers
that be) are turning us into zombies. Think about it, give the current trend
about 5-7 more years and music will be basically two words over a phat bass
loop and ghettos all over will march to that awful sound. They play bullshit
till you love it and then hit you with something even worse the next week. Want
proof? How in the hell is French Montana in the game? Anybody please….. Give me
1 tight verse he’s spit. Think about it this way, what if the underground, or
conscious rap, back packers or just thought provoking songs were streamed and
pumped through the air waves at the same rate. All of a sudden we’d be singing
shit that made sense and God forbid, we may even demand good music our of our
artists. At the very least our brains would return to functioning enough that
we could tell the difference between bad music and good.
Young people wake up! You are being programmed to be less
than you are. Parents turn that crap off, feed your children’s minds anything
that’ll make ideas and creativity take root. Don’t clap along when your baby
says “he ain’t worried about nothing”. Put a book in their hands and tell them
to worry about that!
R. Venner
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