Kids are the future...

so im on the bus on my way to school last friday I believe. Something happened that helped me realize why its so important for me to include socially aware & creative music. Its definitely no tjust all about swag and bitches...well for me anyways....

there two little black kids about 12 and 14. I think they were brothers.

The little one asked me to use my cell phone, so I gave it to him. I see him pointing at my screen because I have a picture of me at a battle from a lil while ago on it.

Him and his brother both were just staring at the screen in amazement like "wow you rap." I told them I did...

then the older brother says, "you go hard like my niggas (lil) Boosie and Gucci (Mane)."

Now, here is where two different points of view can come into play.

1. The hiphop advocate would give them a lecture about why those dudes aren't good and why they should listen to real hiphop.

2. I could have said "hell yea nigga" and started spittin some irrelevent bullshit that they would have ate up.

Instead I told them I didn't reallly rap like that. They asked me who i rapped like, so i thought for a second and told them "nas & kanye."

What happened next broke my heart, the older one gives me the blankest stare like he never heard of those dude & he didn't comprehend what I was saying. He goes, "yes but remember that line...(busts out into some gucci verse about bitches with tattoos)." Then he's like, "do you rap like that?"

At this point I wanted to slap the lil nigga and mke him stand in the corner with his face to the wall in the corner. (lol nah)

i told him "naw" and he looked mad disappointed. I let them hear one of my songs and they liked t a lot.

This goes to show that radio and tv don't exposed our youth to anything beneficial at all. The black community is deeply influenced by rap music. Sadly, lot of us don't read, so a lot of times music is a way we cope with life. When all you listen to is "hoes, hoes, hoes, 22's" I think that our music and our culture slowly looses its value.

Don't get me wrong, I like commercial stuff, but its oversaturating the market. And its making the kids sound dumb as hell. Next thing we know the first words from our kids are going to be, "fuck that nigga." Its horrible, but now I know why people like Oprah and Bill O'Reily continue to hate (more or less Oprah.)

I think hiphop has a bright future though...a lot of new artists with different styles and messages are starting to be heard more with the rise of independent lables. I honestly think that as soon as the majors slowly become extinct a lot of people will become believers.

Im going to leave u with this thought...

"If u think hiphop is dead, then you're looking in all the wrong places."

- Drect