Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Retirement for MC's by T.
The Rolling Stones are on tour...Tickets sold out. This is not uncommon for most if not all genres of music besides my beloved Hip Hop. An older (experienced is the word i prefer to use) artist, group what have you from another genre can tour until they are in wheel chairs but once Hip Hop artist reaches a certain age they are considered old and obselete. Is it the machine (record labels, suits)that decides this or us as consumers? I'm 36 and most of the acts i grew up on don't put out music or if they do you only know about it through happen stance. Is there an age when a rapper needs to hang up the mic. I say no. There is no age limit on hip hop. If you can rhyme you can rhyme. I hear the hole "you can't sell drugs all your life" arguement but I don't look or listen to rhymes are real life stories. They are movies to me (verbal street opera's if i can quote Tony Starks). The good ones can tell a story abd you can see it. It has nothing to do with age. If anything they get better as they age with constant practice. It takes years to become a master in the Kung Fu arts and you are always learning and honing your craft. Why can't hip hop be the same. Your take...."T"
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Ok Also 36 born in 74' i feel me and hip-hop is about the same age as me cuz they say it started in the Park round 72 anyway it's still young and has to grow as a culture and have support and followers, that’s what i feel we doing, growing, living my lifestyle that happens to be Hip-hop. The old player had B-bop and jazz, then R & B heads are 4 life, feel me, even though the younger generation is changing it more these days. If you nice, then you can rhyme forever Like Jay-Z, Ghostface, Q-Tip and sound good, now these young cats i don’t see how most could still listen to a young Jeezy or plies when they like 40 cuz you gotta grow up and so do your lyrics, but like ghost say "I’m rhyme until death, like 80 years old rhyming”…
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