Whats the take on music today? Be it the styles, genres, the industry, the big 3/4... what do you think.
I think its pretty ironic that we live in a society that promotes obscene individualism and narcissism and yet nobody is original with their music. Artists, DJs, producers, promoters, A&R. Admittedly the Music Business folk do go with what makes money so what ever MTV has on today is what WB, BMI, Atlantic, is going to promote. I felt I could express my views in rhymes better than formal writing:
The age of music today / it seems to correlate with society's lasting decay / will it ever be able to find its way into a land that only my lyrics are allowed to play // when you look at me and say wow / if only I had the tenacity to be that low brow / to make music for money and not fame / to train my brain to think clear and not fear the mans leer // its an age where hip-hop has to sell out / to be about / cars, pussy, money, weed / where are all my brothers who see what I see // who look at the tree of todays life / is that really the branch from which I want to pluck my wife / no I want to live in a world where Im allowed to roll my own dice / not live in a society of pet mice // who will come save us / pave us the way / lead us astray from the current way of blind acceptance and moral disarray // will it be me / will it be you / will it be all of us if we so choose // first we must free the music / free the people who use it / to control what we hear / what we fear / and tell us what we must hold dear // sure being ignorant is bliss / but for those of us who aren't content / all of you ignorant fucks show us what life really is
