It is quite apparent that today’s modern world is filled with so many possibilities that one does not know which to choose. We are constantly being bombarded with information, career choices and everything in between. Shit gets real for most of us after we finish high school and realize that life is not one big party where you are locked up in the school yard for 5 hours and given 2 breaks to eat and socialize.
We quickly realize and learn that, life is a long ass journey that requires us to think harder than before, act faster and be hurt more easily. Most of us choose the route to go to University and study for some shit you think you good at because you were the best at it in high school. For the hardcore people, University is not an option, school is not an option…this select few of people who choose to follow what they believe in are mostly shunned by society because they are not scared to break the norm and explore something new.
I respect this people because it takes a lot of guts to say you are making it in life when you finished matric 5 years ago and have no single diploma to your name simply because you are not one to follow the ways of society. When you believe your artistic vision cannot be interpreted by any text book or literature you are forced to read and understand because having that knowledge ‘improves’ your social status.
I think art is a way for people to better explain most things we experience in life. Music is one form of art that has the ability to change how people act, feel and look at the world around em. Personally I’m a hip hop lover; this music is probably the realest form of black art you will ever get to experience. It does not conform to the shit dished out at school for you to follow, it does not abide by the law most times and it is interpreted as violent and an excuse for us to act irresponsible.
The little number of rappers who can accurately breakdown what’s real are usually branded as controversial and decayed. It is believed that if you are a rapper you have given up on most of the shit in your life so you can get to smoke weed everyday and this mindset is busy filling up the game with idiots who think just because they can spit a rhyme and demean women then what they do is art. Hip hop is a way for everyone to explain their travels in life through the oldest form of communication which is ‘talking’. Delivery of a message is key, be real in your storyline in a song, relate to someone, be yourself, be unique and don’t do it for the money, the lights, the fame, the groupies or all that materialistic shit that drive most hood rappers. Do it for the fun, do it for the people, rap with the people not for the people.
Don’t do it for the money, do it from the heart.
Do it cause its art!!!
TheNASHmag Ed.
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