LandryFieldsDad
All Star
With all due respect. This "Trap" music is truly and honestly beyond terrible and its destroying not only hip-hop music, but further destroying the neighborhoods it comes from.
Don't get me wrong if you are between the ages of 12 and 18 hustling out of a trap house in any other state EXCEPT for New York eating Doritos for lunch, wearing Jeans so tight the slammer leaves an impression on your pelvis and never had anybody that loved you including your grandmother because she's only 31 and dysfunctional like so many others in her generation as well as the surrounding generations, go ahead and make the best trap music you possibly can.
But if you are not what I just described and you want to be a "Rapper" why not do it for real? Why not actually say something? Why not raise the bar? Why not actually be different? Why not be impressive? Why not enlighten, educate, activate and impress rather then be a gesture that winds up a statistic and inspires others to become a statistic as well?
Is being lyrical, having a message, a unique sound and numerous flows old school? Look what hip-hop as well as the hood WAS like when rappers like Tupac, Wu-Tang, Nas Jay Z and MANY others were setting the tone or when artists like Brand Nubian, Tribe called quest, Heavy D and MANY OTHERS were..or when Public Enemy, Rakim, Big daddy Kane, LL Cool J and MANY others were setting the tone.
It seemed like everything was in a better place. Sure the hood was always the hood and kids growing up there were always exposed to very tough things, choices and circumstances but at least they looked up to more enlightening, more masculine, more intelligent, more talented role models that not only just spoke to them, but were teaching them and inspiring them to be better....to be more not only as a person but as Hip hop artist if that's what you chose to be.
People say this is a natural evolution of music but I blame labels and marketing. For example, there were always murders in Chicago's urban areas but I am 100% positive there would be so much less if the music was different. As I sit here at a giant console in the recording studio going over my records putting together not only my debut album but the mixtape that will lead off through a record company I can finally trust, I can't help but be responsible... to do something different.
I will never attempt to follow the status quo or attempt to be anything other than me and I have been fortunate enough to look at the world and see that there is only one JJP so it's a given that there is only one Jojo Pellegrino in hip-hop music and that is good enough to start some shyt, gain some serious fans, make some serious money, and inspire plenty of young artist to do the same. Remember hip-hop is the most powerful verbal art form known to the human race. It was tampered with, destroyed and poisoned on purpose by the same people who have been attempting to destroy the people who originated Hip hop and the communities it comes from in the first place.
Shout outs to the real White boy Ceo's that helped build the true hip hop culture and gave you damn near every last one of your favorite artist that were the best to do it like Tommy Silverman, Rick Rubin, Lior Cohen and Steve Riffkind. Besides for them of course there is Jimmy Iovine...however he is a different type of guy. He is a legend but with all due respect he's not a hip-hop individual even though he was later in the game a pioneer and a fan. I don't believe hip hop flows through his veins the way it does his pockets but thanks for giving us not only NWA, Dre Dre, Snoop and EMINEM but more than a handful of the best hip-hop artists to ever do it to this very day.
All we're left with now are the chairmans responsible for today's "hip-hop" music that everyone complains about. I promise you any of those white guys I mentioned before would bail any one of their artist out of prison if something was to go wrong and have done it in the past. It was HIP HOP FAMILY values. LOVE! Before anyone comments on why I mentioned the white boys that helped pioneer hip hop its because they were in a position to lie and to cheat their black partners when they went up in that office as "the white face" to broker the original HipHop deals with other white men who could care less about the urban community and the music they created and chose to keep it thorough.
They were also just like me at one time.. the only white boy in an all black environment intrigued and inspired to live and be a part of the culture around friends and business partners that they truly loved and cared about. There are plenty of CEOs all colors shapes and sizes but every last one of them are a subsidiary to a white chairman ( I gave Doug a 5th I got 5 Stax back" -Jay-Z) We all know who Jay Z is what how many of you know who Doug is? Doug Morris is a chairman and if he walked over to you and said hello you would never know who he was and you would not be able to look at him and tell he hands out $200 million checks to most of your favorite hip-hop labels that supply most of your favorite artists either. So with that being said it is the chairman who is responsible for not only today's music but yesterday's music and unfortunately tomorrow's music.
All a hip hop fan could do at this point is pray for more CEOs no matter what their race is who actually care about the growth of this music that will force the chairman's hand. Everybody wants to be a rapper but I believe more of us should want to be CEOs that grind to build relationships inside of these labels to the point where you could eventually sit at the desk with the chairman who releases multimillion dollar budgets and convince him what you are trying to bring to the table is worthwhile. Much respect to some of today's biggest rap stars like Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J- Cole and thank God for the independent artists that keep this thing alive. In the famous words of Flava flav..."You gotta fight the powers that be!" Enjoy this lovely weather we're having. Signing off your#FriendlyNeighborhoodPelly
Don't get me wrong if you are between the ages of 12 and 18 hustling out of a trap house in any other state EXCEPT for New York eating Doritos for lunch, wearing Jeans so tight the slammer leaves an impression on your pelvis and never had anybody that loved you including your grandmother because she's only 31 and dysfunctional like so many others in her generation as well as the surrounding generations, go ahead and make the best trap music you possibly can.
But if you are not what I just described and you want to be a "Rapper" why not do it for real? Why not actually say something? Why not raise the bar? Why not actually be different? Why not be impressive? Why not enlighten, educate, activate and impress rather then be a gesture that winds up a statistic and inspires others to become a statistic as well?
Is being lyrical, having a message, a unique sound and numerous flows old school? Look what hip-hop as well as the hood WAS like when rappers like Tupac, Wu-Tang, Nas Jay Z and MANY others were setting the tone or when artists like Brand Nubian, Tribe called quest, Heavy D and MANY OTHERS were..or when Public Enemy, Rakim, Big daddy Kane, LL Cool J and MANY others were setting the tone.
It seemed like everything was in a better place. Sure the hood was always the hood and kids growing up there were always exposed to very tough things, choices and circumstances but at least they looked up to more enlightening, more masculine, more intelligent, more talented role models that not only just spoke to them, but were teaching them and inspiring them to be better....to be more not only as a person but as Hip hop artist if that's what you chose to be.
People say this is a natural evolution of music but I blame labels and marketing. For example, there were always murders in Chicago's urban areas but I am 100% positive there would be so much less if the music was different. As I sit here at a giant console in the recording studio going over my records putting together not only my debut album but the mixtape that will lead off through a record company I can finally trust, I can't help but be responsible... to do something different.
I will never attempt to follow the status quo or attempt to be anything other than me and I have been fortunate enough to look at the world and see that there is only one JJP so it's a given that there is only one Jojo Pellegrino in hip-hop music and that is good enough to start some shyt, gain some serious fans, make some serious money, and inspire plenty of young artist to do the same. Remember hip-hop is the most powerful verbal art form known to the human race. It was tampered with, destroyed and poisoned on purpose by the same people who have been attempting to destroy the people who originated Hip hop and the communities it comes from in the first place.
Shout outs to the real White boy Ceo's that helped build the true hip hop culture and gave you damn near every last one of your favorite artist that were the best to do it like Tommy Silverman, Rick Rubin, Lior Cohen and Steve Riffkind. Besides for them of course there is Jimmy Iovine...however he is a different type of guy. He is a legend but with all due respect he's not a hip-hop individual even though he was later in the game a pioneer and a fan. I don't believe hip hop flows through his veins the way it does his pockets but thanks for giving us not only NWA, Dre Dre, Snoop and EMINEM but more than a handful of the best hip-hop artists to ever do it to this very day.
All we're left with now are the chairmans responsible for today's "hip-hop" music that everyone complains about. I promise you any of those white guys I mentioned before would bail any one of their artist out of prison if something was to go wrong and have done it in the past. It was HIP HOP FAMILY values. LOVE! Before anyone comments on why I mentioned the white boys that helped pioneer hip hop its because they were in a position to lie and to cheat their black partners when they went up in that office as "the white face" to broker the original HipHop deals with other white men who could care less about the urban community and the music they created and chose to keep it thorough.
They were also just like me at one time.. the only white boy in an all black environment intrigued and inspired to live and be a part of the culture around friends and business partners that they truly loved and cared about. There are plenty of CEOs all colors shapes and sizes but every last one of them are a subsidiary to a white chairman ( I gave Doug a 5th I got 5 Stax back" -Jay-Z) We all know who Jay Z is what how many of you know who Doug is? Doug Morris is a chairman and if he walked over to you and said hello you would never know who he was and you would not be able to look at him and tell he hands out $200 million checks to most of your favorite hip-hop labels that supply most of your favorite artists either. So with that being said it is the chairman who is responsible for not only today's music but yesterday's music and unfortunately tomorrow's music.
All a hip hop fan could do at this point is pray for more CEOs no matter what their race is who actually care about the growth of this music that will force the chairman's hand. Everybody wants to be a rapper but I believe more of us should want to be CEOs that grind to build relationships inside of these labels to the point where you could eventually sit at the desk with the chairman who releases multimillion dollar budgets and convince him what you are trying to bring to the table is worthwhile. Much respect to some of today's biggest rap stars like Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J- Cole and thank God for the independent artists that keep this thing alive. In the famous words of Flava flav..."You gotta fight the powers that be!" Enjoy this lovely weather we're having. Signing off your#FriendlyNeighborhoodPelly
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JoJo Pellegrino should make some trap music, he might actually get over.