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Why I Can't Take Hip-Hop Seriously
This article sums up in a few short paragraphs all that is completely ridiculous and absurd about rap music. It's a quick run-down of the circumstances behind the much-publicized feud between "50 Cent" and "The Game" who combined have about the same musical talent as the tambourine player in the Partridge Family.
In the article, 50 Cent is referred to phoenetically ("Fiddy"), and we get to hear all about his nonsensical feuds with other rappers with equally absurd names like Ja Rule and Fat Joe. Apparently Mr. The Game recorded a song with Nas (keep in mind that it would break the laws of physics for any rapper to release an album without the assistance of every single other rapper, presumably because the more of them there are on the album the more closely they can approximate the talent level of 1 actual musician), which was a major "dis" to "Fiddy" since "Fiddy" spent an entire song on his album making fun of Nas about somethingorother, perhaps because Nas' tricked-out Cadillac Escalade wasn't as big as "Fiddy"'s.
Try to imagine if anything like this happened in the rock world, how come we never read articles like this: "Guns blazed at the end of the Jack Johnson concert yesterday when members of John Mayer's posse showed up to accuse Jack of stealing Mayer's whiny girlish singing style. In a statement released Monday, Johnson responded 'I don't know why John is so upset, it's obvious that we both ripped off Dave Matthews anyway.' Mayer fired back by leaking a self-produced song about how much Jack Johnson sucks to the internet. By this morning it had reached #6 on the Billboard charts."
Comments
Good old 50 Cent. It's hard to take hip-hop seriously, but at least it's entertaining.
Posted by: Brian at March 14, 2005 12:27 PM
Hey Chris,
How are you doing? It's already been a year since we were at Wash U in the DOC group :-) Just thought I'd drop a line to say hello.
You are as funny as ever - keep writing!
Posted by: Ravi at March 14, 2005 3:26 PM
These guys are the boy bands of hip hop, except they might actually have a musically interesting nugget underneath all the drama queenery. Give Deltron, Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Kool Keith, or maybe Blackalicious, a serious and critical listen, and I think your eyes will open.
Posted by: Charlie at March 14, 2005 11:40 PM
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