Music and It's Times

So I logged into IMEEM while I'm running around the house packing and such to move back to norfolk [shoot me] and I ran across one of my old school playlist [hmm] sooo I clicked on it and started just thinking...so it inspired me to write a blog.

Man o Man, so I'm listening to "Friend or Foe" Jay-Z, for those who don't know, and it just put me in a state of mind like wow the evolution of music has, well to the obvious eye, downgraded. I often wonder how it would be to live in the mid-90's being my age as of right now, it seems like the vibe of music was so much stronger people actually enjoyed it and just didn't release bullshit tracks for the money. That whole vibe that whole feel of the music of urban HIP HOP/RAP and R&B in general was RAW back then, even if it was mainstream, which most of it was. IT WAS REAL. [hmph] I feel that maybe YOU have to be a music head to relate but artist nowadays release, well stuff for the clubs and the clubs only. SHIT, I want music that I can vibe with..well whenever I want to. I can't really ask of much of any artist nowadays people have no such originality left [its fuckin' terrible]. I do commend the artist that have not jumped on the money bandwagon and stayed true to actually pleasing their fans and releasing shit that isn't dumbed down. [LUPE]

uhhh on another note something that really pissed me off while I was listening to music was Teedra Moses. Complex Simplicity her first album has to be the most raw and original sound I have heard in a long time. You can feel what she says every song is different she's so versatile and that's what I love in an artist. Every rhythm and every word spoken it's like falling into your own thoughts and just floating [unexplainable feeling]. So much for that, I was browsing her myspace page to listen to her new tracks for her [long awaited second album] and she has a MIXTAPE, sounds nothing like her. HMMM a little back ground information on Teedra is basically she is a very UNDER RATED artist that had a marketing team that didn't do shit for her [she signed under Lil' Jon what do you expect?] This new sound of hers sounds like a publicity stunt, or maybe its something new that's she's trying to do, but my thing is stick your roots! UGH. I loved her first album so much and was ABSOLUTELY disappointed by this mixtape she's already released, what happened to the second album? Taking skips and leaps into the wrong direction much....

Lastly should I even start on Lauryn Hill? Where are you? I kind of don't blame her for abandoning her fans because I feel as if she would have released another album now [highly anticipated, well to half of her fan base now] it might have not been the Lauryn we fell in loved with. Granted she does have a family and such but still that voice of hers should NOT go unused..

I could write about music forever, maybe in other blogs I won't bore you non-music heads.

Well that's my little spiel for this morning....