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Is it just me, or does it seem like every young black male wants to be a rapper now days? Every time I turn around there is yet another guy on my Facebook timeline posting their youtube video or talking about heading to the studio. Why Oh Why? What ever happened to the professional driven [...]
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Samantha
August 10, 2012 at 9:00 pm
d**n i wan to be a rapper ma role model is nicky minaj
Jackie Cooper
May 22, 2012 at 11:24 am
I’m going to take the 1st paragraph as the actual question if I may. They want to be rappers because mistakenly it seems easy. In most cases you don’t need to have skills to play an instrument or sing. But I agree a lot of kids desire to be rappers but also mangers, studio technicians, producers etc. because for the 1st time in African American music history has there been so much exposure to the industry itself. At 60 years old when I was a kid everyone had a singing group sing temptation tunes in the basement with no further thought except a talent show where the prize wasn’t a contract but perhaps a hundred dollars to split between five people. Then you had garage bands that may have done the same things and some times local gigs. We never thought a bout a record deal in most cases ( or knowing about going about it) and being a producer or owning a label like Berry Gordy never crossed our minds. But today kids see a lot of options in this field that blacks could do. It’s not much different that kids dream of the NBA, seeing people going straight out of high school, which the odds are greater than a rap career. I’m not going to address the content of the songs, but remember back in the day groups like Funkadelic, Last poets, blues artist etc. released songs they couldn’t play on the radio because of lyrical content. I know a lot of kids trying to get into the industry and not just as rappers. Millions of African Americans thanks to rap/hip-hop are just finding out the music industry offered so many possibilities! I hear kids talking about publishing, producing, writing, chirography, even fashion design thanks to rap & hip hop. Ijs
C Devaun Rashard C
May 22, 2012 at 10:42 am
hey, if that person can be the lone artist today that can make a positive song or an entire album for my kids to listen to w/o vulgar language or a socially irresponsible msg, then why not. if that person is a leader rather than a follower & an actual “lyricist” then I say go for it.