Well, this is entry number 4 and I still hate rappers. Not all of you, just most of you. If you missed the first 3 parts you can check those out down below. If not, let's talk about why I hate rappers today. Today I hate rappers because they love the lifestyle more than they love the music. I'm not saying they don't care about the music, actually I am. You don't care, you care about the lifestyle.
Nas, Drake, Jay Z, Eminem and even 2 Pac all got famous because they compleatly stopped making new music and just spammed people with their old stuff. Jay Z has been spamming Hawaiian Sophie for almost 30 years now and all he did was one adlib in that track. Nas has been living off Oochie Wally for almost 20 years and that was the feature on that song.
I'm lying, nobody except Jay Electronica has ever gotten famous off one song and then rode that into greatness. Even one hit wonders have other music because you can't eat off Ice Ice Baby forever. You don't care about being known for your music. You care about being flash in the pan and cashing out on one song. You're not interested in continuing to improve your music, you're looking for one hot track to take you to the top. You look for a catchy beat that you won't pay the producer for. You'll ask for it with the promise of "I got you later bro." Meanwhile you've gotten such the ego to shoot down other rappers, some of whom are just better.
Once you've got that beat that you think has the ability to blow up and make you famous you lay a few mediocre bars on it. Then you spam everyone with it. Not just that day, you continue spamming that one track for months. You don't make any music for the next 3 to 9 months but you keep swearing you've got the next big thing. You don't care if you're ever accepted as an artist. You just want the fame associated with being one for 15 minutes. But what do you do when it doesn't come? You start tagging songs with irrelevant tags. Trying to hop on the fame of other established rappers or producers and ride them to fame. It's extreamly unlikely that you'll pull a Leonard Cohen "Hallelujah" out of thin air. But do you try to move forward and keep moving forward? No, you keep dwelling on the past as if you'll be able to go back in time and change it.
You don't even want to work hard for it. You want the fame right away. You want instant recognition and gratification. It's not like most of you are doing anything unique that sets you apart from everyone else. You don't bother trying to create a new style that's all your own. You take your favorite rapper and copy their style. Then you spit some generic bars in their style. Add an adlib that may or may not be from another of your favorite rappers and call it a day. Most of you don't even bother to mix and master your tracks.
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Nas, Drake, Jay Z, Eminem and even 2 Pac all got famous because they compleatly stopped making new music and just spammed people with their old stuff. Jay Z has been spamming Hawaiian Sophie for almost 30 years now and all he did was one adlib in that track. Nas has been living off Oochie Wally for almost 20 years and that was the feature on that song.
I'm lying, nobody except Jay Electronica has ever gotten famous off one song and then rode that into greatness. Even one hit wonders have other music because you can't eat off Ice Ice Baby forever. You don't care about being known for your music. You care about being flash in the pan and cashing out on one song. You're not interested in continuing to improve your music, you're looking for one hot track to take you to the top. You look for a catchy beat that you won't pay the producer for. You'll ask for it with the promise of "I got you later bro." Meanwhile you've gotten such the ego to shoot down other rappers, some of whom are just better.
You don't even want to work hard for it. You want the fame right away. You want instant recognition and gratification. It's not like most of you are doing anything unique that sets you apart from everyone else. You don't bother trying to create a new style that's all your own. You take your favorite rapper and copy their style. Then you spit some generic bars in their style. Add an adlib that may or may not be from another of your favorite rappers and call it a day. Most of you don't even bother to mix and master your tracks.
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