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Someday we'll be Together: Jozua K.
All About the Music: by Jozua K.
In 1963/1978, perhaps the year in which the West took the decisive step on the road leading to the crumbling Babel of now,
Bob Dylan released a song that would become a hymn of the irrationalists of the Left (i.e. Pods): The Times They Are a-Changin’.
It’s been known ever since as the archetypical protest song, and has been recorded by every major leftoid singer
with a big heart and a small left brain.
There are versions by many others, just like this by miscellaneous Obama worshippers & metaphorph project and so on.
The Metaphorph project is runnin' by Jozua K. himself.
This is the song’s opening stanza:
Good poet though he is, perception and analysis of social reality have never been Mr. Dylan’s strong points.
And so, the “Civil Rights” struggle on behalf of America’s blacks and egalitarian potheads that The Times are a-Changin’ has come to symbolize would metastize into a cult of fraudulent equality of all and everything, allowing not even the distinction between the host-civilization’s self-preservation and self-erasure.
The process reached a symbolic closure with the release in 2005 of Things Change, a rap piece co-performed by a black multimillionaire
named 50 cent on the soundtrack of a film entitled Get Rich or Die Tryin', about Mr. 50 cent’s life.
The platinum soundtrack album with Things Change, produced by Mr. Black Jeruz and Mr. Sha Money XL, has sold 3 million copies.
To compare, one of the great popular thriller book publishing successes of 2005 by a superstar author, Michael Crichton’s State of Fear,
had a print run of 1.5 million copies.
The opening stanza of the artistic effort of Messrs. 50 cents, Sha Money XL et al., was:
Nigga, Things change
The don't stay the same
Now watch me come up even harder
I hustle, I hustle even harder
That work in to win, no problem
The times have changed, and not for the better.
The Western peoples whose lunch the Body Snatchers and their clients have been eating since the 60s should have tried harder
to defend it from the hard hustlers.
What remains now is to take Dylan’s advice and either empty the pond or start swimmin’. But not in the direction he had in mind.
Recently, on YouTube, I came across the music video to “Wait(the whisper song)” by the Ying Yang twins.
As I have no particular interest in the career of the Ying Yang Twins, I had never heard the song before, even though it’s not a new song.
The only song I really like by the Ying Yang Twins is “Salt shaker.” I’ve heard plenty of other songs by them, much of which sounds like background noise.
What really caught my attention about this song was how bad it was. It’s one of those songs that just screams out for a big thumbs down.
The video, of course, had the requisite beautiful girls, spiffy cars and the glitz.
Whoever came up with the concept for this song surely didn't win any prizes for creativity, but that doesn’t matter because that’s not what the song’s writer had intended anyway…or at least I hope not.
The song and video are just about having fun and being different, and there is nothing wrong with that.
There are probably a lot of people out there who like bad music and the Ying Yang twins have certainly exploited that.
At the end of the day, for the artist, all that really matters is that somebody listens to their song regardless of whether it’s good or bad.
I will, in fact, go as far as saying that despite the fact that I don’t think that the Ying Yang Twins are much good at making music,
I do like them and I think that they're great at what they do best, which is being unique and making money.
These guys have been around for quite a while now and have arguably earned the torch.
People who hate on the Ying Yang Twins should ask themselves if they could ever produce a platinum selling album.
In a way, one has to admire them for their poor lyrical and musical skills because that means that they must be extremely good salesman
to be at the level that they are.
Nas certainly does, although he hasn’t publicly stated it. We know that he does because he thinks that rap is dead and he blames it on the image pimps of the rap world,
although he hasn’t publicly stated that either.
If you remember correctly, Nas released his 8 th album titled Hip Hop is Dead in December, 2006. I think that Nas is a great artist.
He’s truly one of the best lyricists to have ever touched a mic. But when Nas—like many other conscious rappers—chooses to make a statement about anything other than lyricism,
Just before his album came out he did an interview with WestWood Radio Show in the UK where he said,
“Hip Hop is dead because we as artists no longer have the power.
What's UP?
Could you imagine what 50 Cent could be doing, Nas, Jay, Eminem, if we were the Jimmy Iovines.
Artists didn’t have power even when hip hop was alive.
Businessmen have power. There is no law which prohibits Nas or 50 Cent from becoming powerful heads of labels. Just look at Dre.
And besides, what Nas says 50 Cent could be doing, 50 Cent is doing.
It's Nas himself who isn't doing what he says others could be doing.
During another interview Nas made another interesting statement.
He said, “Basically, America is dead. There is no political voice.
Music is dead.
Perhaps Nas should be more like the Ying Yang twins and actually react to how the world around him is changing.
Adapt or die.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm Tyrone "TyMacy" Jenkins Says:
For starters, the state of hip hop, depends on, who's assessing it. A lot of old school emcees, have a different outlook, on hip hop, than the younger generation.
A lot of these young kids, don't understand, the essence of hip hop, and we shouldn't punish them for that. The hip hop music corporation, has formulated,
a limited amount of molds, that characterize rappers. The gangsta, drug dealer, and the pimp. Anything image outside of those, afore-mentioned, doesn't pan out.
Nas is my dude for life, but Hip Hop, is very much alive, in these kids' eyes. One Love
TyMacy
February 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm Bboy Says:
I guess the word "crap" can be a relative thing. The way I see it a lot of the stuff Mos Def and Talib Kweli produce is crap because it keeps reminding black people
February 14th, 2008 at 1:45 pm Wise One Says:
Hip Hop is truly dead and will only return when we realize that it is an art form that was predicated on uplifting not degrading.
It was a true creation of the afro-american culture and creativity just as jazz, bebop and blues were.
All of which eventually have been completely lost to the wide range of afro-americans in the USA.
Furthermore, it should be clearly understood that anything that degrades, defames, dehumanizes a culture or a people is not art it is genocide and that's what hip-hop has become, "crap".
An audialized form of crack that ahs enslaved the minds of youth and distorted their sence of right and wrong.
Woo to those who uphold this nonsense we now call hip hop and those who spit out the flith there in.
There is a price to be paid and if you open your eyes and free your mind you will see the devastation that is being produced, in our afro-american youth today.
"Blood flows upon the urban streets, children with no love and not enough to eat.
Women and girls live to be mistreated and have their spirits defeated.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:32 pm brock Says:
The problem with Nas is that no one takes him seriously anymore.
The man's time has come and gone. He knows that and that's why over the last few years he's gotten provocative.
Everyone knows the shit is dead. he doesn't need to keep reminding us; we know your career is dead too Nas so chill out.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:41 pm Champ Says:
Who cares
Hip Hop (Adapt or Die)
