Critique of Artist

After four weeks of intense training and guidance this hip-hop artist is starting to come into his own writing and posting a lot of useful and meaningful information, songs, and poetry on his blog in his journal. He has created some great pieces titled “Unfinished….”, and his hot new poem “It’s me...” He is not scared to showcase his talents on stage, he isn’t afraid to do that. The artist said, “I really have learned to make something personal and I try to give something everyone will enjoy and really take something from each piece I write.” In this new video that the artist just did he wanted to send a message out to his own hip-hop generation. The performer did a good job with his message talking about how the messages that Hip-hop sends needs to be more positive then negative. He mainly talked about how the lyrics of today which needs to speak more positively about women. In his video a suggestion that I have is that maybe he could’ve looked more into the video camera and really get the audience engaged with what he was saying. He did a good job with the deliverance and captured the audience with his voice. In his original piece he talks about hip-hop generation how it has changed from old to new. I think he brings up a question about this genre is, “Can Hip Hop Be Resurrected?” Hip-Hop is dead for quite some time now, just like Nas stated in Hip Hop Is Dead that was released in December 2006. Can it be resurrected? It sure doesn’t sound like it when you turn on the radio. What used to be vibrant, exciting and groundbreaking music just appears like facade now. The only topics that are being discussed in the past years are “bling bling”, “how many guns you have”, “how many cars you have”, “Ho’s”, “Laffy Taffy”, “Lip Gloss”, “Chicken Noodle Soup” etc. So what happened to rap music? How did rap devolve form its glorious past from what even some founders believe is its least motivated period? One of the many reasons for that is the commercialization in music, today; artists want money and fame for their talent, instead of actually using their talent as an art. Back in hip-hop’s glory days of the ‘80s and early‘90s, to artist like Public Enemy, Rakim, KRS-One, Wu-Tang Clan and the list is endless. Despite the different approaches they seemed to somehow talk about something meaningful. In this video that was posted, the artist did a good job talking about how hip-hop today needs to be changed to speak a more meaningful message to people but especially to women. I know that if these rappers keep calling women these names then they justify the fact that everyone else can call them these degrading names. I feel that this artist can do big things for the upcoming year. His words speak knowledge, which gets people to think very critically about the world. I think that he can really get people to change and improve the world’s overall function. I also see that he like to bring comedy and a lot of personality to his story, so I am excited for this artist future work.