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Originally Posted by bigstig 
Remix: What would you like to see brought back from hip-hop’s past, if anything?
RW: Songwriting! Not to say that there aren't some downright talented songwriters making hip-hop records, but the vast majority of commercially available music lacks any sense of the craft. There are a ton of really well crafted, thought provoking, personal and political, socially valuable rap songs from the past 25 to 30 years, but I don't hear many new ones these days. A few, but not many. If your song consists of an 8 bar beat, two verses that say nothing more than how rich you are and how many cars you have, and hook that has two words, one of them being profane and profoundly ignorant, you don't get to call yourself a songwriter. That's just my opinion, of course, but I think that's one of the reasons why record sales are in the toilet. Creativity is subjective, but if the only message in your song is an anatomical reference or self congratulatory rant, you should hang it up. If we can't bring songwriting back, I'd settle for NWA. In my living room. Yeah, that's what I want! |
I agree 100%!! And thats why I still have the older "classic" albums still in rotation in my car instead of buying the latest over produced, under thought release of the last few years. I find very little inspiration from most of the current crop.
BUT... back to topic I have read the said blog and found it to be a great insight into how the top tier handle their biz.