New Life

Lately, I've been feeling really good about the state of Hip Hop. Although there have been some posers, some extremely whack people attempting to make us believe that they are dope, and styles have changed. In the past couple of months, I'm elated to see that "The great dumb down" has been put to the side for the moment and allowed some good stuff to get through the barrier. Raekwon, Drake and Rick Ross have solid albums out, Nicki Minaj is strangling every track that breathes, Joel Ortiz is using other people's beats as a punching bag, Kanye West, Game, and TI are back and Fat Joe has the best work I've heard from him in years. I remember I saw an interview with Joe and he spoke about being successful in the industry and he talked about making the radio hits to stay relevant. It is true, but resulted in certain songs that I didn't particularly care for. With this album, some serious, serious, heat. This is what needs to played on the radio in my opinion. Please don't ever believe that every time I turn on the radio I want to hear some cat singing a duet or pouring his heart outm I've got Al B Sure cd's and XM Satellite for that. I suppose that since sales are down that people are formulating a new plan making the music that we've been missing for the past few years. Hopefully this is a pattern that will continue for a while. Feel free to comment and tell someone to tell someone.