After listening to an intern today about hip hop music and how great Drake is I had to put my two cents into this. I grew up listening to rap and hip hop. I used to turn on the radio at night onto Hot 97, and make sure I recorded on cassette tape the hottest tracks like Biggie's One More Chance, Fugees' Mona Lisa, and random tracks Funkmaster Flex played. Luckily I grew up during the Golden Age of Hip Hop and music in a whole was not tainted with the internet. But those days are long gone. I always thought I can grow with hip hop music, but the older I get the less relevance it has in my life. The new artists today has no relevance in my life since, I can't "stunt", "floss" or even "roll." With an exception of a few artists such as Eminem, Drake, and Kanye, I really can't see any young or elder adult take hip hop that seriously these days. The only thing I can see a young adult do with hip hop music is either dance to it at a bar, club, or sing the hook in your car.
Growing up, people who were older than me used to listen to Biggie and Pac and listen to their lyrics and not just that, memorize the meaning to it. After listening to hip hop and rap today, I have no idea nor clue what they are trying to say. Then one of my friends said, you're just too old for it. Well if this is the case then great, I can't bring my intelligence down to understand non-sense. On Biggie's Juicy, he overwhelmed us on how he took himself from poverty to success, now kid's have to listen to someone talking about black and yellow.
Whether I'm getting older or I just out grew hip hop and rap music, I will still listen to the classics.
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