You got to know what to fight for.
Success is a common dream of man. We all want to be successful at something; we wanna see ourselves achieving something extraordinary. This is a state of mind we are all born wit, I mean think about it. No one can really say they taught you how to walk, or talk or rap or be yourself. No one can convince you that whatever you are trying to achive wont be successful unless you choose to have the mindset of that pessimistic mother fucker trying to bring you down.
We are human; the most precious asset we all own is the brain. Like, I don’t get why the fuck some rappers sell out their music for fame and fortune. Why are you a rapper? Is it because you saw a music video where nigaz were popping bottles and shit? Why do you rap? Is it because you are bored and by some miracle you taught yourself how to use studio equipment so you can lace your voice and force us to listen to the noise you somehow call music?
In the hood it’s rare to find a rapper that raps so his music will last long after he’s gone. Rap has changed so much over the years that it’s getting hard for some to stay relevant to the art. In the 90’s it was about war on the racial injustices done on the masses and then we found freedom and now don’t know what the fuck to do with it. This change in the game has led to rappers looking for excuses to justify their music. It’s more to do with selling than actually saying something on a record. I crave hearing something that is conceptual and has meaning, don’t get me wrong I am not saying all rappers should be conscious and I damn sure aint saying all rappers should be YMCMB.
Hip hop is an art that’s supposed to teach people, it is a vehicle of delivering a message to people and you as an artist have the power to choose which message you deliver. If you don’t sound real, then real will not recognize you.
Don’t let change remove the culture you grew up with, don’t let TV influence you, don’t sound like anyone, don’t dress like anyone and don’t move out of your hood because someone made it to the top by doing that. Change does not mean yall have to act a fool, it just simply means there’s more to music than you think. It becomes pointless for you as an unknown rapper to spend a lot of cash on printing CDs, making music videos and dropping links on the net if you don’t know which step to take after doing all that. Anyone can drop a music vid but who will push that shit when it’s time for you to go to the stu?
Please don’t get into hip hop to be cool, don’t do this shit if you gone be a common rapper.
BE REAL
TheNASHmag Ed.
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