There are 2 trends in young Hip-Hop than need to die immediately
1) Weed Rap: There are a good half-dozen rappers taking up incredible amounts on bandwidth on the internet that have nothing to talk about other than the contents of their [whatever kids smoke out of]. Who cares? Honestly. It was OK/cool/interesting when there were just a few Devin the Dude's in the world, or emcees would have a track every-other album dedicated to their favorite herbal recreation, but shit...now we've got kids like Wiz Kalifah, Curren$y and Freddie Gibbs who can't go more than 8 bars without using the words "smoke" or "green", and yet they're considered some of the genre's best new artists.
2) Making songs about the downside of fame before you're famous: Or as I call it, the CuDi Complex. It seems that the success of CuDi, Drake and B.o.B has lead to a rash of pseudo-emotional young rappers who somehow claim to be jaded towards "the game" before anyone really even knows who they are. It's cookie-cutter shit at its worst, and borderline emo. Obviously, I'm not the kind of dude who only has jams M.O.P. and street shit. I enjoy and appreciate REAL emotion and sentiment on a record, but how is it that you can write and record a song about hard hard it is to please fans, or how lonely it is to be a star, or how "the haters" are trying to keep you down on your first single? Or worse yet, on a mixtape track before you've ever even been signed or so much as
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