keep in mind that to play basslines and chords you gotta know a little about music , if its a tempo below 80 bpm you better know something
I mean aint that the point? If you're not willing to take some time to learn a little bit
about music then why the fuck would you be trying to
make music.
Musical movements or genres are only going to go as far as the FANS take it. If MOBB music "comes back," but the shit don't sell it's gonna fade back into obscurity. Bay Area rap fans are the most wishy washy fair weather fans I've ever seen. Niggas excited one min, then bored the next. Niggas rather buy 50,000 copies of "Carter III" than San Quinn or E-40's new shit. We can't expect any musical movement from the Bay Area to succeed if the damn fans don't get behind it.
Like I said i don't think Mobb Music needs to make a comeback cause it never left. It's just been overshadowed by by the whole "Hyphy Movement".
Now unlike some niggas I got nothin' against Hyphy as a music form. Like any infant form of music it had it's pluses and it's minuses. The real problem with it was that it was labeled too early and was tied to certain slang terms and clothing styles that were destined to fail from the gitty up. See, the Bay is full of lames who wanna be down so bad that in their quest to prove to everyone that they know whats new and crackin', they gotta overdo every new trend that comes along. Real niggas will not have anything to do with somethin thats played the fuck out so they immediately distanced themselves from any and everything Hyphy related. What followed was the fans and ultimately all major label support.
Slang and clothing styles are not that resilient so to tie a music style to them is to guarantee it's early demise. Especially when it's as corny as the Hyphy Movement's slang terms and style of dress were/ are. I mean, I know cats wanna see the Bay blow up, but lets just take a minute to look and listen to ourselves. We look like clowns. All these multicolored clothes and shit, screamin' go dumb and what not, and lets face it, 95 percent of the music the bay produces now is junk. If you check out the RELATIVE sales figures you'll see that the Bay's sales are way down.
Sales don't lie. You cant just forcefeed niggas junk and expect them to buy it unless you got radio to back you up on the brainwash.
We went from the world lookin at the Bay as pimps, players, and hustlers to
them lookin at us as a bunch of multicolored jiggaboo clowns. What we need to do is regain our dignity by just lettin all that extra shit go and get back to real job of makin' quality music thats original. To me the best place to start is exactly where the train ran off the tracks in the first place. Mobb Music
is the sound of the Bay. if we allow it to evolve gradually it
will take us where we want to be....
