Uncle Rush, Please Get Diggy A Record Deal

Just press play.

Diggy just spit something serious and it just ain't fair to those who aren't talented enough to duplicate the same results.

Though I could have done without the "n" word and the gun shots, this was a great effort on his part.

This makes up for the "Pretty Boy Swag" video that I posted the other day, I do apologize for that.

I'm done.

Is Jay-Z Really The Greatest Rapper Of All Time?

The ancient argument that seems to always hit a dead end has left the corners of Hip-Hop and found its way to sports TV. Wale recently made an appearance on ESPN's 1st and 10 and entered into a debate with Skip Bayless about if Jay-Z is the greatest rapper of all time.

Of course, Wale was there to defend his idol stating that Jay has had 11 number 1 albums therefore he has to be the greatest (without really saying those words exactly).

Judging from Hip-Hop/R&B today, what can we say about the future of music?

If you haven't noticed yet, I am an extreme music fan and am as equally opinionated about the genre. Music is a huge foundation of the person that I am today. I listen to music when I wake up in the morning (my alarm is the radio), my iPod stay running out of life, and I am a fiend for brand new music; meaning, I want to hear it the minute it gets burned on a disk.

With that said, I really needed to ask where is music going. I have visited this question more times than I can count. I have asked friends, family, and strangers what their thought on music is in it's current state and the reactions, naturally, are mixed. The moto for an artist these days is to be as different as possible. This of course is a major relief seeing that just a couple of years ago everyone wanted to be the "next" somebody. But I have reason to believe that a lot of artists are taking it a little too far.


I may be digging deep here but it still is worth mentioning; while these artists are out here saying that they are "hustling" trying to make their money to "eat" or they are trying oh so hard (sometimes too hard) to be "different" and "unique", they are failing to see the long term effect of their selfish actions. And when they are not doing the listed, they are losing themselves in their celebrity. Stay with me now. At this point in time, I can only use myself as an example. The first time I fell in love with music was when I was just a kid in pampers.

My parents were avid music listeners and played music from sun up to sun down on Sundays. They played Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey (her 1990-1996 work), Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder (my fav!), Rolls Royce, Run DMC, and many many more; and what I loved most about the music was that you could tell that the artists words and unique styles came from the soul.


When these singers recorded their music, they recorded it with passion and overall empathy for their listeners. They wrote or co-wrote (even bought) songs that they knew -not thought- their target market would love. Their music was universally loved and admired and most importantly understood. Today, I have to say, you will notice a complete difference. To at least like a song, you have to hear it constantly and if you don't like it, you are told that you are either a "hater" or that you wouldn't understand it's sound because you are not from the geographical location where it originated from...really?! I never stepped foot in Memphis, Tennessee and I love me some Aretha Franklin like no other.

Is asking for quality music too much? I would like to hear a song one time and know that I love it instead of have it grow on me. I am not saying that all music is terrible, I'm just saying that the bad is starting to out weigh the good.


It could be that I am old and need to get put on to the new, that is of course if you feel a 20-something year old is too old to know the new, but help me out with this; are you comfortable knowing that their are children right now being inspired by the music we can't hardly stand today? I didn't think so. Times are changing but good music will always be good music; and most importantly, classic music can never get old and boring.

There are the some out there that say I may be taking music a little too seriously and music is here for fun. I have to disagree with those that say such silly things and point out that music is serious, forget what you heard.

Have you ever experienced one of the roughest days in your life where you felt like you were going to lose it only to have your favorite song come on the radio and take you away from those thoughts that were bringing you down? And even though that feeling lasted for 3 1/2 minutes, you knew that it made you feel a heck of a lot different even better? That's how serious it is. Basketball player Stephon Marbury is probably a perfect example of this, no?



I'm still not feeling you after your stint with the Knicks Stephon but moving on...

A person's like for music of course depends on their own personal taste, but what happens when the general public has rated their material a fail? Are we still just all haters?

I know one thing, I am hoping that a majority of the young one's that are aspiring to be entertainers one day are looking to the old school for inspiration; if not, we may experience a not so sweet case of deja vu in the coming future.