It’s Called “Old School” Because It’s Old

Last week I tried something different. Thanks for baring with me.

Moving on rapidly, I present an interesting question. How many of you think that Hip Hop has not been the same since Biggie and Pac died?

Come on…raise your hands.

Now all of you that believe in this archaic idea stand up.

You will all be teleported back to ’96. Pick yourself up a pair of parachute pants while you’re there.

Aside from the jokes, (thanks for the laughs), I noticed something extremely introspective about Hip Hop. As listeners, rappers, and fans we all tend to live in the past. Hip Hop is one to carry its roots with it where ever it goes; along with its dirty laundry.

I have to hear about Hip Hop dumbing down in the last 15 years all the time. It is almost incessant everywhere you look on the internet (especially on the social toilet bowl we call twitter. Jk). As one person is complaining about the radio while someone else rants and raves about the internet affecting the music. Now we have people complaining about bad talent in the game…without respect to themselves, while they are failing to focus to get money and touring.

It is almost counter productive to consistently compare music and times to then.

Nothing gets done with that statement!

Shit, I feel like thinking in the past is extremely counterproductive. Think about it.

If we continue to think that Hip Hop is not as good as it was 20 years ago, that only attracts the continuation of this “decline” into the future timeline of the music genre.

Most of the people saying “it hasn’t been the same since Big and Pac died” were barely old enough when they died TO EVEN KNOW they died. (I will be real with you...when either rapper died, I had no idea…nor did I care at the time).

Why do we continue living in the past? Why can’t we just let go? Why can’t we realize that this industry is STILL SIGNING 7 FIGURE DEALS (to time warped rappers right out of jail…Max B should cake) and has too firm of a grip on the neck of America’s youth to ever “die”.

I feel as we continue digging up the dirt of the past, we are covering up the dope acts that we have right now.

But I am not, nor do I feel, like going into depth on what acts are poppin’ right now. If you are on this site, you already know the answer to that question.

Instead, I am going to introduce something interesting. Something that many Hip Hop heads will find alien. For one day, act like Hip Hop was invented in 2005. Take everything for literal concepts then. Forget everything before 2005.

Listen to the music. New music. Do not listen with scorn and disdain because it is not old sounding and has more lyrical ability than the average song today. Take the music for what it is.

I have a feeling you’d like it more. Shit, I like it more. Whenever I listen to music, I think of it in the year that it was released. My mind is in 2010 right now…not 2009…or ’96. Old School is Old School. Everyone’s idea of Old School varies (based on age and orneriness).

I feel that we should be able to take music for what it IS and not what it WAS.

Mature up Hip Hop!

See you next week…might breakdown my opinion on rappers performing a SERVICE…but that just might get me killed right?

As always, email me at JacquesMorel08@gmail.com