Where’s the inspiration pt.2

Where’s the inspiration pt.2

What’s good world I really appreciate the responses to the first part of this blog and hope that the feedback keeps coming so without further ado lets get back to it!
The beautiful thing about music is you can get hot at any age for the most part, we saw Lil Bow wow do it , Lil wayne has been at it since 12 and the list goes on from Romeo, Soulja Boy, Kriss Kross etc. However you never really heard of a Rapper getting hot in his late thirties until now. Tauheed Epps aka 2 Chainz  is one of the hottest commodities in the Industry right now and it may not be coincidence that he has the brains of the young generation hooked on the bullshit he spews. Before his rap career blossomed Mr.Epps earned a basketball scholarship to the University of Alabama where he earned his Bachelors degree in Psychology. So while being very well educated more so than others in the hip hop genre he is smart enough to know that dumbing down your music is the best way to sell it ( cant knock the hustle). With that said how can such and educated man say some of the dumbest shit out. Let’s go with the his main hit right now “ Birthday Song”.
 2 Chainz 36yrs old -“ Birthday Song”-
She got a big booty so I call her Big Booty
Scrr Scrr, Wrists moving, cookin’ to it
I’m in the kitchen, yams everywhere
Just made a jugg I got bands everywhere
You the realest nigga breathin’ if I hold my breath
Referee, with the whistle, hold his tech
Extendo clip, extendo roll
When your girl leave me she need a hair salon
Hair weave killer, goin’ on a trapathon
See I done have more bombs than Pakistan
Dope bomb, dro bomb, and a pill bomb
See nigga, I’m ballin’ you in will call
When I die, bury me inside the jewelry store
When I die, bury me inside the Truey store
True to my religion, true everything I’m too different
So when I die, bury me next to 2 bitches

This is what is being said by a man who claimed himself to be 2pac without the nose ring. For me homey is nothing close to Pac whatsoever his hottest 16 couldn’t compare to one of Pac’s worst poems. Now i know Birthday Song is a Hit and most hits are lyrically dumb ed down with a good beat and repetitive hooks that the formula. However sun could have came with a little creativity damn smh.That’s the problem all these dudes are trying this just speaking from the head tactic, and recording rather than letting that pen hit the paper, or there thumbs work that qwerty on their phones and take time to really write something. Tupac Amaru Shakur aka 2pac @ 24 yrs old wrote “How do you want it”-
Love the way you activate your hips and push your ass out
Got a nigga wantin it so bad I’m bout to pass out
Wanna dig you, and I can’t even lie about it
Baby just alleviate your clothes, time to fly up out it
Catch you at a club, oh shit you got me fiendin
Body talkin shit to me but I can’t comprehend the meaning
Now if you wanna roll with me, then here’s your chance
Doin eighty on the freeway, police catch me if you can
Forgive me i’m a rider, still I’m just a simple man
All I want is money, fuck the fame I’m a simple man
Mr. International, playa with the passport
Just like Aladdin bitch, get you anything you ask for
It’s either him or me — champagne, Hennessey
A favorite of my homies when we floss, on our enemies
Witness as we creep to a low speed, peep what a hoe need
Puff some mo’ weed, funk, ya don’t need
Approachin hoochies with a passion, been a long day
But I’ve been driven by attraction in a strong way
Your body is bangin baby I love it when you flaunt it
Time to give it to daddy nigga now tell me how you want it

What is incredible to me is while both songs touch on the same topic which is partying and having fun with women and living it up the vocabulary word play, delivery and flow are just unparalleled. Pac challenged himself when he wrote a song, using a dictionary a thesaurus finding different words to convey the same meaning while expanding his vocabulary. Honestly when have y’all heard one of the new rappers use the word “alleviate” or any word that is not used in everyday conversation there is no effort to expand their verbal arsenal  it just seems the more ignorant you sound the hotter you are. (SN: only one of those men had a bachelors degree in psychology.)

French Montana is another dude that’s popping right now and that is getting away with this bullshit rap and bars over hot beats with an OK hook.
French Montana 28 yrs old -“ Pop That”-
Work, work, work, work, work, work
What you twerkin’ with
Throw it, buss it open
Show me what you twerkin with
Ass so fat, need a lap dance
I’m in that white ghost chasin’ Pac man
Hundred out the lot, I be leaning thats a rock
Hundred large bring a mop
Cars tinted like Barack
Got a brinks truck in my pocket
30 chains on my collar
2 drops, no mileage
Top off like Wallace
And I’m hella smoke, bitch know that
Filthy rich before rap
Your new deal, I throw that
3 Benz I’m on that
We pop a molly, she buss it open
She seen it, got it, that pussy soaking

Now I’m not going to lie I was a French fan for a min when he was on that Cocaine City grind and riding the Wave with Max B he was spitting that shit from time to time and  maybe he still got it but this garbage ( Ed lover voice) C’mon sun!

In the late 90’s the game was slightly being infiltrated by bubble gum rap , glamorous videos and shiny suits! One man shut all that down and change the course of hip-hop, brought it back to the streets and off of the pop charts
With his rugged and raw voice, actions, lyrics and style, Dark Man X gave the game something it desperately needed before it fell off the cliff and into the abyss of pop music . DMX @ 27 yrs old Wrote “Get at Me Dog”
What must I go through to show you shit is real
And I ain’t really never gave a fuck how niggaz feel
Rob then I steal, not cause I want to cause I have to
And don’t make me show you with the Magnum
If you don’t know by now then you slippin
I’m on some bullshit that’s got me jacking, niggaz flippin
I got my man and them stay pretty like I’ma stay shitty
Crimey it’s all for the money is you wit me
Hit the bitches, went out I could make the crime
And when it’s on we transform like Optimus Prime
I’ll form the head, roll out let’s make it happen
If we ain’t gonna get it wit them we’ll take the cap down
Bust it off, gust it off on the softest niggaz
Money with the biggest mouth, yo let’s rob this nigga
A novice nigga never made a sound
Breath too fucking hard like you gettin bust down

That right there was passion when you heard him go and let out that bark and the beat drop them goose bumps came on your arms. You could hear his hunger and determination you knew he was going to make a change in this game one way or another. I know I’m not the only one who had that whole album bumping threw and threw and when you think about some of the bars he spit as you read this you can’t help but to get amped!! That’s what I’m missing in today’s music.
Now with all things there is a silver lining and there may be some hope for the future we will visit who those artist are in Pt.3 of this blog until next time I leave you with this.
“A vision, without the drive to execute it, is just a hallucination.”
Peace-

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