M-Bone Murder- Condolences and questions

I am deeply moved by M-Bone’s death day before yesterday. The Cali Swag District rapper had a bright future ahead of him and he was so young; only 22. I really want to pass on my regards and condolences to his grieving family and friends but I also want to question our society for such brazenness.

Who gives them the right to kill?

I asked my neighbor’s daughter what she thinks of the gun in the hands of teenagers like her; she replies, “Power, pride and guts”. I am saddened to think that the hip hop culture has lured our youth to think weapons of defense are symbols of strength. Yes, I may be wrong is associating this violence with the rapper as a side-effect of the pop-rap culture. But what else am I to think, looking at how most of them spend their lives behind bars?

Music to the ears should be limited to rhythms and not the sound of gut shots that destroy. It’s time we change this and change the perceptions about “Images”. If you get killed tomorrow, the images won’t stay; only the empty space will. Your story will end with you. And from where I look, I think a life is far more precious than that.

We just can not tolerate street violence and neither can we tolerate our youth straying like this. We don’t want to leave behind a generation of murderers and drug peddlers. That is not what our culture is about and that’s not what we want our children to imbibe.

We might just think it was a “celebrity” shoot-out to presume things are fine as long as we are commoners. But inch a little forward and you will realize it that the slope is deep; deep enough to hurt us and the ones we care for.

Common America, this is not who we are.

New rap songs

Rap is a capital misnomer for hiphop music. It may be deemed that rap is synony mous to hiphop but that is not true. Rap music preceded hiphop long before the ter “hiphop” itself was coined. Rap music has evolved from the 1970s disco rap to today’s modern rap.

Today’s rap songs are way different from Lionel Richi, Stevie Wonder and the likes. The new rap songs sound like Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now”, Kanye West’s “All Of The Lights”, Nicki Minaj ft Drake “Moment 4 Life”, Lupe Fiasco’s “The Show Goes On”, Lil Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot”, Waka Flocka Flame’s “No Hands” are the newest rap songs. Many rap albums like Jim Jone’s Capo, Unstoppable by DNC, The Greatest Story Never Told by Saigon are the latest rap albums. The best place to listen and download all the rap songs and albums is none but BrainstormLive.com

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Crime rap

Crime rap, is obviously rapping about crime, as the name suggests, but it is mainly a sub-genre of mainstream hip hop music, which is also known as Mafioso rap. Though this genre has never been very famous, its fair share of limelight is still due and also its revival. The potential brilliance of this conceptual style has been often underestimated by hiphop purists who deny any relation of mafioso rap and hiphop. They often dismiss the form as materialism and fantasy. But whatever maybe the opinion of experts, Mafioso rap can, at its best, be a truly worthy form of hip hop music.

Mafioso rap is mostly based on lavish and luxurious fantasies of mobsters or Mafiosi. These music videos show stylized depictions of mafia wars with such lyrics. Mafioso rappers spin imaginary fantasies of rappers as Mafiosis, drug kingpins, and organized crime figures. This new subgenre does not just draw from its predecessors; it takes those concepts to a higher level.

Some of the all time favourites Mafioso songs may be listed as The Firm - Firm Fiasco, Jay-Z -

CONSCIOUS HIP HOP

Conscious hip hop may be joked about as rapping by conscious people but actually, it is rapping by people with a conscience!

Conscious hip hop is a form of hip hop wherein the lyrics are based on social issues. It has parallels with political hip hop and also encompasses the subjects like religion, African American culture, everyday life and the state of Hip Hop itself. This style is somewhat influenced by Jazz-rap and is often a cause of controversy due to the subjects it deals with.

Socially conscious hip hop deals with social issues and conflicts, not overtly political, on subjects like religion, aversion to violence, culture, the economy, or simple depictions the struggles of ordinary people. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" was an early and hugely influential political and conscious hip hop track, decrying the poverty, violence, and dead-end lives of the black youth of the time. Other artists like Lupe Fiasco and his work, Food and & Liquor and artist Common Sense and his work Be are applaudable on the conscious hip hop scene. Kanye West, himself a good artist, also lends his talented production skills to other socially-conscious rappers. Talib Kweli, though not considered a rapper, is a unique figure on the conscious rap landscape. Some other conscious rappers are KRS One, De La Soul, Mos Def, Dead Prez, The Roots, Lauren Hill, Wyclef, Paris, Kam, Afu-Ra, Black Eyed Peas etc. Socially conscious rap is here to stay, and may even prove commercially successful; the word power of rap is a perfect canvas for young artists to paint a difference onto.