The 3 B's of Rap

The B's of Rap Music

A rant.

Ok about this rap music, first it took me a while to even gain an appreciation for this music, but eventually I came around. Lately however (and by lately I mean the last 6 years) I'm sick of it. Can we rap about something other than the B's (thats B, Bullets, Bling and B....ch's). Amazingly enough I'm not interested in who you shot, what you're wearing or who that is on your arm, and I'm sanitizing this greatly. So, along comes a guy (Lupe Fiasco sp?) raps about skateboarding, Kick, Push and Coast. And everybody is like "Wow, that is out there, a rap song about skateboarding" Like African-Americans can't enjoy skating. Gosh, nobody got shot in the song, no women were sexually abused in this song (maybe an animal was injured, but hey I can't have dinner without harming an animal). My gosh the world is ending. An actual rap song without any B's in it. This is written about in the paper, "it's left field", "Lupe is out there", "man, what was he thinking" Come on, its a song about skating. I have these rap clients, that come in talking about their cool clothes, their MB or BMW, which they don't own, they road the bus to the studio, but they can barely pay for an hour of studio time, then they complain "hey it doesn't sound like the radio" Uh, no, it doesn't, that song probably took 6-10 hours to mix, oh and it was probably mastered also. So, no it doesn't sound like the radio, but maybe you can ship it out as a "mix tape", hey the place I buy gas sells mix tapes. Maybe you can sell your stuff there. So, what I'm saying is write something new and interesting, about skateboarding maybe, or life, or school, or maybe a real love song, or how about music, or your children. No, you just write about the B's. Oh, and while your at it maybe back off the profanity (that's cursing and bad words for those of you that don't know what profanity means). I might buy it. Others might also. Cause it ain't just me that feels this way. I bought The Black-Eyed peas and really they aren't that great, but at least they have something different to say, so I wanted to support that. But maybe you like the B's, maybe you like the profanity, But why must you flame the guys that don't. I've heard you, "that ain't real rap" Hmm, it sounds like rap to me, its just not about killing, shooting and that B***h. Hey, some of it I can let my children listen to. They kinda like rap, but there's like 10 songs I can let them hear. So, come on guys give us something new to listen to.

This rant does not apply to my clients, I love all of your material.

Thanks,
Brent