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.