Hip hop music is dominating online and offline music charts. Hip hop music fans experience an “it’s about time” moment every time they turn on MTV, VH1 or any local radio station that doesn’t specialize in country music. Even urban channels that used to play only mid tempo rock music have diversified their rotations to include more hip hop music.Why is hip hop suddenly everywhere?
Suburban Kids! They latched on beats, nouveau riche lifestyle full of machismo and bling, and they latched on to party. Hip hop might have started out as a companion to rap music, but today, two musical genres are a world apart. Hip hop is funky, full of energy, dynamic, catchy, male, female, American, European, Asian and Indian all at same time.
Modern hip hop is so dance friendly that frankly no cares about lyrics anymore. I can name a bunch of up and comers in field including Lloyd Banks, Ciara (or anyone else out of Missy/Timbaland factory) and Chingy. Then, let’s not forget 3 million people that make up G-Unit and D12. That’s pretty cool.
Now, can I name one verse of any song, by any of these artists? Of course not! These people are selling hip hop music for club. If I hear even three seconds of a song from any one of them, I’m on dance floor. Still, I can’t come up with two solid lines to any of their songs. Why?