I USE TO LOVE HER

Oh how the time has changed, faster and faster every year with little remembrance of the ways the Hip Hop culture use to be.  Sure change is good! It's important to evolve and grow through the time that made us what we are! Yes the Hip Hop culture influenced all of what we see and hear happening today in our lovely industry and community of artists and admirers. 

The days of Sugar Hill to Run DMC rebelling fanatically, jumping forward to LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee battling vigilantly leaping forward passed Public Enemy, X-CLAN, Arrested Development, N.W.A movement and Big Daddy Kane's touch of sophistication (that obviously inspired P Diddy). To the Wu Tang movement that galvanized a world of supporters are something of a mystery to many, as new artists face a different approach in getting their music to the masses.  No longer the performance in front of the record label or gorilla advertising your music at every event, radio station and board meeting possibly to get recognition towards their craft. It is and has been the days of the Internet! In other words 'THE INTERNET KILLED THE EXCLUSIVITY OF HIP HOP ARTISTS' allowing everyone the opportunity to express their feelings....perhaps or more so creating the illusion that making music makes you money or makes you an automatic star of the industry.  Check out Method Man talk about the lack of real Hip Hop ironic ain't it?!

Method Man visited the TLC Show NY Inc.

Mef got a sick Wu Tang Killer Bee tattoo from Tommy on his left arm, then returned the favor by tatting a Wu Tang Clan symbol on Tommy's leg.

While there Method also talked about what he sees wrong with today's hip hop scene.

"Can you even call it hip hop?" Meth asked. "Back in the day when you told a kid 'yeah I'm an MC.' First sh*t they would say to you is 'say a rhyme for me.' Now you tell a kind I'm an mc '[they ask] where your car? where your chain?'

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I don't know how many times I hear "yeah man, all I need to do is make one song and it will be a hit, then I will be rich and famous", oh yeah that's a good one. Or how about the supporting friend that asks you "have you ever heard of ....they are great!" Not to say that the artist may not be great, though by what standard does greatness weigh upon.  It must be the Credibility, of the artist that builds their name in the street; the Capacity, to continuously create relevant product and the Character, that defines what people desire to see in themselves by living through what they like about the artist, they truly appreciate and connect with.