society

this is the 2nd post from me, what i noticed about my blog is that the spelling of marshmallow, yes, its a wrong spelling, my bad. I just came back from a wedding at Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor. It was in a hall in a place which I dont even know the location, im just in the car just staring blindingly at the buildings while my family are trying to search for the place where the wedding was held. There were 3 entrances but only 1 was opened today, so we just went around the place for a few times before we actually found the entrance. The place is extravagant, well, based on my past experiences, well, this is like the first time where i went to a place like this. With Dato and Datins everywhere. Im thinking to myself, wow, this is how the rich actually have their weddings.

I have always been to them wedding ceremonies where it was held near the bride's house. With caterers everywhere with hair filled with hair gels. Its my relative's wedding (im not quite sure how we are related, all i know is that we are related). With mercedes benz cars filling the parking lots. This was truly something. As I was eating the food served there, my friend text me, and we were talking about something (not quite sure), and he said something about weddings now because i said that i was at the hall attending the wedding ceremony. He said that how the Malay community has changed. In the old days, we used to have everyone in the community help out in a 'Gotong Royong', now its just held in halls, with caterers serving the food.

What is actually happening to us? what happened to the times when everyone taking part to helping out a fellow neighbour? Is malay culture really dying in the heart of the community? Even the government is making campaigns because the malay culture is dying, we truly are people which heavily influenced by the west that we forget about our own culture. So ask yourself, are we really going to let our culture die just like that?

first day

well, this is like, the first time i actually done something like this, this is truly a new experience, im actually feeling quite hyped up about this. Before, i have read blogs from another blogger by the name of dafrosty and seeing him posting blogs about current events kinda makes me want to make my own blog and actually display it for the world to see. For today, im gonna actually write about my favourite music genre. Hip Hop, a music genre often discriminated as a music which promotes violence, with music videos filled with half-naked girls, alcohol all over the place and all of that ish. In 2006, Nas, released his latest album called Hip Hop is dead through def jam, a record label in the US. There were mixed reactions from the title of the album. The question is, is it really dead?

Now, lets look at it this way. When the pioneers of hip hop created rap, it was purely creative lyricism, from the early ages of hip hop to the golden age of hip hop, where rappers or mcs like Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Rakim innovated complex rhyming which is considered as ahead of its time. To the 90's where there were rappers like Biggie Smalls, 2pac Shakur, Nas, Jay-Z. So, what actually went wrong? What happen to the times when poetry is still the heart of hip hop? Now television and radios everywhere are airing songs like Crank Dat, Ay bay bay and all of that ish. Not that im actually blaming rappers from the South for killing rap because the South has some quality rappers like Chamillionaire, Outkast and many others.

When i discussed with my friend, dafrosty, about hip hop, he said that even hip hop in KL is not how it used to be. Rap isn't like it when it was in the early 2000's, no more hip hop gigs in KL now. Most of them local rappers are moving to Singapore because they embraced hip hop more than Malaysia. So, my conclusion is Hip Hop is officially dead as far as the Malaysian music scene is concerned.