Rap Music.

Lately I have been stuck on rap music. I guess the rap of old is much better than the rap of to day.
There is a lot of anger and aggression presented within the lyrics of old rap..

I have been writing a few rhymes myself,  ( now, I am in no way or form suggesting that I am a rapper or can rap at all for that matter, I just happen to enjoy rap and writing rhymes), the stuff I have been writing is seeped with anger and aggression at the place I am living in. I have been sitting down and just forming lines in my head to the point of where I'll say them aloud and they sound like they are sickinsane, the words themselves are innocent but put together they are angry and pissed off.

To say that I am simply saying the words would be a lie, I am in fact spitting them, they hit hard, rough and fast. It is almost as if I can see why or how people like Dr Dre, Biggy Smalls, Nas, and Tupac have written such horrendously angry rhymes, I can see where the lines have come from, I can see where they were formed, from the anger of the place that they are living in, from the anger that they feel over the situations that the might have been in at the time.  There have been times when words just flow through me and take over my mind, those times have been times when I just cannot bare to do anything but write the lines spinning in my mind down and put them to the test.

With old school rap there is feeling and emotion, stories, lives, and situations thrown into the mix. With the rap of today there is a lot of rubbish, a lot of sex and drugs, raps with no real sustenance. There is no real feeling in the words, they lack empathy, they are just lacking in general. I can't listen to it without feeling bored to death. Although that cannot be said for all modern rap. Some of it is good, some of it has a lot going for it. Such as Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and of course Eminem.

Anyway just a little musing of mine.

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