my opinion on this topic
it's not the music people..it's the people behind the music. the people "acting" so to speak. it's the attitude those young, old and upcomming artist carry in thier lyrics, in thier stride, in thier tone, in thier vocabulary, in thier relations, in thier life. Positive or negative. it's not the music, it's the representation of a culmination of various aspects of peoples lives and how they want us to know about thier experiences. I make music, for example when i make a hard Bay area sounding beat i don't automatically think, oh.. San quinn would be perfect for this beat..no, i may entertain the thought though, but when i decide to put a country singer on that hard hittin bay soundin beat and call it Country Ebonix, what am i trying to say...
it's who represents the music. you swear any country artist wants to represent San Quinn on an album...you feel me, that's why rappers have to do what they do, and in the process they create thier own world of what ever, violence, drugs, women, sex, money....bla bla bla...The subject matter that relates to the artists in the rap game needs to change...who cares if you grew up in the ghetto, or in Hillsborough....face the reality, everyone knows how to rap...but not everyone knows how to relate...
"...and this is my opinion" Mac Mall