Personal Observation: I think most of the music today depends too much on the rhythm, beats, and bass to hide the simple plain lyrics. Whatever happened to soulful similes’ and heart stopping metaphors. Where is the imagination and the passion? I remember how Marvin Gaye would sing about a cause and move a nation. Now Aretha Franklin demanded her R-E-S-P-E-C-T and even TLC would talk about Red Light Specials and you’d giggle wickedly knowing exactly what they were referring to.
Now the music leaves no room for imagination and rub our faces in the Benjamins they make. There’s no heartbreak unless its done by a baby mama or the stripper taking their dollars.
I really feel for the generation as they see music role models only fighting for a cause when its only because they want to sell more records or talking bad about my brothers and sisters and how they are shiftless Tyrones and Tyronette Gold diggers looking for the next meal.
I know you’re gonna tell me that this person gave money to a good cause or she helped clean up during Hurricane Katrina or even they give a lot of money to urban youths. Now a days I just feel they are just doing it to expose their brand to the ones that don’t know them yet. This hip hop artists are only doing this so when those kids get money in their pocket of their own to spend, they’ll run to the store and buy a brand, not a sound.
No cause, no imagination and no drive to do better. Yeah, you dropped out of high school to pursue your record career, but have you once ever just stated that leaving your education was wrong? That you should have gone back, that you want to go back and you wouldn’t suggest someone to take the same road as you.
Do you even try to encourage any of these kids to follow the fourth commandment so their lives can be long and prosperous instead of bad mouthing the parents and making the kids rebellious with your lyrics.
Give me something that I can listen to and feel like it’s church. Preach to me. Tell me what real love is. I know it can’t be in a dark bar, or a one night stand or selling my soul to pay my bills.
I know my life has meaning and I’m worth that.
The new generation definitely needs to hear that more because I don’t feel they hear that enough.
Yeah as a parent I know if I don’t want my baby to listen to that mess then I need to turn off the radio, but can’t you help a sistah out.
You know I’m all by myself. You know there are more single parent households than married households and we are not going to go into blaming you about that, but could you please please please give us a hand up instead of your scantily hand outs.
Help us nurture this generation to let them know if WE could change history on one single day then THEY can do twenty times better.
This is another rant from How to Love A Black Woman. We now return you back to reality.
What do you think?
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My comment is plain and simple. When you are concern of what your kids are listening to or what they are doing, then you are a parent that takes the time out to know and learn a lot about your child, instead of trying to find out what music they are listening. It will also show how much of a role model you are for you child or children. Just take the time out and enjoy your kids and be a true role model, by being their for them and I mean be there not spoil them, but be their and communicate with them with respect and honesty and they will know what music to listen to, that they can relate to in regards to their relationship with their parents. The artist are just who they are trying to find someone to love them, when their parents may or may not have been there for them. Now this is something to think about...
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