I cram to understand how people can be mad at Trinidad James for speaking the truth. The bottom line is that New York hip hop is suffering from a case of garbageitis and its been like that for quite some time now. There are so many elements that play a part to this and I could easily go about this blog by blaming all the bum ass rappers that have lost their footing by sounding like these rappers down south. Now we got rappers on lean and molly, rocking over these trap beats; but wonder why you are not selling an abundance of records.
We don't have artists like we did years ago that prided themselves in being trendsetters. Everyone wants to sound like someone else instead of taking the time out to really create something different and not being afraid to stand out. Then when you do step out the box you do NOT get the support from the people that need to be supporting. It's so hard to go into a club and get "turnt up" I don't get "turnt up" I get LIVE we WILD OUT. We never had TRAP houses we had CRACK spots; now everyone is in the trap, but when will we get our identity back?
We will get our identity back when we can come together as a unit. New York rappers don't support each other. I guess Nas was ahead of his time when he said hip-hop is dead because it is. There is only a few people left carrying the torch. Thank GOD for Nas and Jay and there are several NY OG's I could name, but for the sake of relevance and being in the forefront I thank these two although Jay did make kind of a southern song with that fuckwithmeyouknowIgotit; but for the most part he tried to keep that NY sound flowing. Nas got praised last year because he made Life is Good. It was the last true depiction of what our sound is supposed to sound like right now, that's why his album was praised.
We can also thank these dick riding DJs that spin this on the radio and the club. The radio and the club go hand in hand because clear channel controls radio they are only going to play the most popular music and New York music is non existent on New York radio; which is the reason why I banned myself from NY radio because it sucks. If you look at any rotation on NY radio there is hardly any NY rap that is in regular rotation. Why? Because NY don't support their own region so why would the DJs support what people don't support; it's a bad bad cycle.
Hopefully we can get back to when rap music was real rap music. It doesn't have to be exactly like the 90s; I do recognize that the 90's was almost 24 years ago, but we have to put that soul back in music. I love J. Cole, but where are the NY rappers making heart felt songs like that? I'll wait. People will claim the King of NY because no one is standing up to take that crown. I am looking forward to getting back to the basics, but we have a lot of work to do before we get there and it will start when people stop making music for money and make it for the art again. We will see what happens in the future.
