Blog #1: Hip-Hop Alive and Well
Over the last few days I have seen a lot of things: six different cities, six different clubs, 5,000 different people, ten bottles of liquor and four artists that live for what can’t be killed “HIP-HOP”. All the time I hear hip hop is dead and our generation is the driving force for its death, but during the Hip Hop Live Tour I’ve seen how wrong the critics can be. We’ve gone from Ft Lauderdale thru Georgia, Carolina all the way to the nation’s capital D.C., and every night I see Hip Hop is alive and well. It’s amazing to see artists with totally different styles come together and mesh like hen and coke to form one hell of a show, all because they share one common theme, a love for our music and culture.
This tour is all about the essence of not just hip-hop or rap but music itself. Live instrumentation (shout out to the Rhythm Roots All-Stars) and fans that came to rock. The energy from the show is so incredible and undeniabl,e I really don’t know if I can explain it with words. When B.o.B and I hit the stage I look out into the crowd and I see so many different races, age groups and people. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Old, Young, Sober and Drunk of course!!! But it’s all love because everybody is there for the music and the feeling it gives them. If that’s not power and proof Hip Hop is alive I don’t know what the fuck to tell you.
You got Talib from Brooklyn, Banner from Mississippi and B.o.B and myself from Atlanta, but we all come from the root of what was created by a generation before us. People say we’re dying and don’t know it but I think our big brothers who came before would be proud to see the evolution of what they passed down. Each set is unique and highly creative.
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