Hip Hop In Time Out

If Jim Jones's mom feels compelled enough that anyone in the hip hop industry would actually listen to her, then what does that say about the state of the game. I mean, even soulja boy somehow became a hit so who knows. But really, this is what it's come to? Even 10 years ago we couldn't shake the repetitive style of how much richer and tougher I am than you. Its been a stew simmering for awhile.

Was tribe called quest and the pharcyde area that long ago? A lot of times I ask myself and others, if rap didn't pay so well what do you think they'd rap about?Seriously, think if it paid as much as it did a teacher in a public school. That would eliminate 55% of today's hip hop.

Unfortunately, that other 45% is an obsession of sex, like its never happened the prior 3,000 years. It also feeds to the social problems obtained my its listeners, teen pregnancy. But just like the father in the situation, the artist wouldn't want to claim responsibility for it.

 Or maybe its another social phobia, the fear of admitting vulnerability. The pharcyde would sound like self loathers compared to this generation's music. Hip hop used to be like that, a form of updated blues. Rappers who didn't mind to explain their pain resentments, and fears.Now, a complete 180. This fear that your not as much of the "shit" you think you are. Disguising any fear, emotions, worries, or admitting you were ever wrong. Its the essentials of humanity. You can't ignore that, its how you grow, and get better. Instead you get stuck in a blissful ignorance where no one can tell you anything simply because you don't want to believe it

Maybe Im asking for too much from people, who knows? But Hip hop really needs to do some soul searching. Its a shame when talent isn't even marketable, and repetitiveness is rewarded.

The Fantasy of Government Dependency

After a bad week for Mitt Romney,which seems now to be a cliche to say these days, a lot of discussion about the "moochers" government aide has surfaced. Mitt Romney says he can not reach a certain 47% of the electorate because President Obama has solidify that portion through government aide, so they will never vote for him

I wish that were true only for the fact that if it was, the president would be up by 30 points, and Mitt would have to kiss the south goodbye as Dylan Matthews points out in the Washington post article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/18/mitt-romney-will-probably-get-95-electoral-votes-from-moocher-states-obama-will-probably-get-5/

This idea of government systematically making people dependent of them for political gain is simply not true. Majority of the Republican base receives some type of government aide, but completely opposed to the idea of government doing anything for anybody.

Generalizing people who receive aide as people who just want to settle with dependency is simply not true. Case in point to my general readers, mostly college students. Financial aide and tuition helps those who usually wouldn't have the opportunity to gain higher learning. It simply stand as a helping hand to society doing better for its self.

Yes, there are people who milk the system. But there's nothing that some type of reform can't solve.Completely erasing the system would only make things worst. Demonizing who ever have is simply turning your back on half the country.