Whatever happened to just being an artist? You know writing songs and performing for millions of fans. Well now it seems that you have to add criminal to the list to become a rap artist. As much as I love the hip hop culture it seems to be declining at a very fast rate. Song content has no substance anymore, artist just include a quick manual to how to commit capital offenses now inside their lyrics. Lets take for example the ever so popular Lil Wayne, 90 percent of his content involves the use or sale of narcotics. He himself has an addiction to cough syrup and marijuana. He brags about it in his records and is in interviews getting high all the time. This guy sold close to a million records in one week and the songs have no relevancy. He just was released from jail a month ago for possession of illegal firearms and narcotics.
These young talents mostly come from rough backgrounds but this is no reason for them to destroy what was built by others. It seems lack of substance and ignorance sells records faster than just flat out good music. Look at the days when music had a
message in it, these records are timeless because they still apply to todays current events. Just recently a former artist of P Diddy's label Bad Boy Records turned himself in for a murder he commited 17 years ago. He has been strung out on drugs for the past 10 years and just completely fell apart. The examples that the media masses choose to display are just ignorant, but yet no one wants their child to act in this manor. Well the children of today have poor examples in front of them and are confused on what is right and wrong. The change needs to come from the top, the labels need find artist who can actually put out good product and not some dope dealer who can rhyme.
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