Artists and Polotics.. do they go?

What they have to understand is that once they become respected artists they have to have a certain level of professionalism. A certain artist who helped UK breakthrough in the hip hop scene, made an embarrassing political statement on live news. What they need to understand is that people look up to them and they need to need to maintain their standards. Check out the video below:


Now what i didn’t understand was that if Dizzee Rascal didn’t know much about the political view then why did he do the interview and embarrass himself.

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Embarrsing UK artists

My opinion is that UK artists are getting negative media and views because of what their videos consist of. They try to imitate what American artists do, but they do a very bad imitation. All the videos consist of is violence, guns, crime, alcohol and girls. The American hip hop artists videos consist of the similar things, but the difference is they pay allot for high budget quality videos, where as the U.K artists produce low budget cheesy videos.

If you look at this link, it is a video of N-dubz, a UK hip hop group, and you will understand what I mean by low budget videos compared to American artists.
Whereas you have some people who make high budget unique videos
Check out the video below people, it’s ‘Roll deep – shake a leg’


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Where Have the Poets Gone?

Focusing on 1 of the most known and respected Poets of our time had to be 'Tupac Shakur'. He rapped his life, he rapped his emotions, he rapped about situations that people are dealing with still to this day. But what separated 'Tupac' was his unique rapping style. Compared to artists such as Notorious B.I.G, 'Tupac' was poetic where as B.I.G just rhymed and made no sense, which is just like most artists of today.



The only poetic artist that has been recognised and been respected for is ‘Marshall Mathers’ also known as ‘Eminem’. He has been the only artist compared to ‘Tupac’s’ level. 50Cent was considered to be the next ‘Tupac’, because of the pain in his music, but that pain died out in his music when he started to become more commercialised and focused on other business ventures.

Check this video out – One of Eminem’s poetic songs


One of 50 Cents poetic songs


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U.G.K = UK?

Right everyone we can get a lot different point of views on this topic. UK hip hop has come a long way; we have artists like Kano, Wiley and Dizzee Rascal, who have opened up the doors for UK Hip-Hop to get recognised. When Wiley and Dizzee Rascal came out they did certainly open the doors for UK hip hop, because at the time it was mainly about American hip hop, but the more songs the UK artists released the more the media was publicising and American artists started to recognise and give credit for the UK hip hop scene.

There are a lot of new artists who are helping push hip hop further, but are they succeeding? We will elaborate more on that later on.

'You don’t have to be American to be a rap star' as stated by an underground artist named 'Craze 24'. He has a good point here because UK hip hop has not received the deserved amount of credit it should have compared to American Hip-hop. But there are some acts, like the US scene, that are holding the UK side down. So-called artists like N-Dubz who in our opinion are having their 15 minutes of fame at the moment. Acts that are 'manufactured' by the record labels after the money.

For out UK readers in particular, what are your views on all of this?

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New Blood?

Which artists have been blowing up the scene? Papoose was thought to be next best thing after 50Cent, because of his clever rapping style(see the video below to see his talent), put due to the producers and his management he never did make it big. There’s a particular artist that has come across as a talented freestyler if he is directed in the right way to become commercialised yet keep it street like Lupe for instance. His name is Cory Gunz, he’s only a young lad who started free styling and battling other MC’s to get his name out there. He has a unique rapping style compared to other freestylers. The question is can he just freestyle or can he rap too? Will he do the same as 'Jin' and stay as an underground freestyler because he couldn’t make it as a rapper?


He has done freestyle collaboration with other artists but not yet released an official album, but he has released an underground mix tape which I’ve read about and the reviews are encouraging. What’s your views about this rapper everyone?


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Rap Battle

A lot of artists make their way up by underground freestyling and participating in rap battles. There are a lot of rappers out there who have no freestyling talent at all, and still make it big within the hip hop industry because of the songs that have been produced for them. There have been many artists who have come onto the scene slightly but have disappeared temporarily or permanently. Take Papoose for instance he made it real big with free styling, and he did alot of mixtapes working with DJ Kay Slay, but he never did that well getting commercialised. He got featured on many tracks such as Busta Rhymes' "touch it (remix)", Joe's "where you at" and chamillionaire's "ridin' (remix)".

Another good up-and-coming underground rapper is Cory Gunz. Although not well known now, in the underground scene he is known for his complex freestyling skills. These are the kind of rappers that should be making a name for themselves, but aren't getting the recognition they deserve, well in our opinion anyway.


Heres a taste of some good freestyle rappers courtesy of BET. The rappers featured are, Willie Northpole, Blaq Poet, Hime and Cory Gunz, with DJ Premier. Enjoy!

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The Recession

No not the album by Young Jeezy. I'm talking about the recent crisis that the world seems to be in at the moment. I brought this up partly to do with what we were talking about a couple of weeks ago, how rappers are making their money through different ventures.
Then I started to think about the recession and how maybe because of record sales, this may have lead to the cause of so many delays of album releases. Albums such as Busta Rhyme's "B.O.M.B" album and until its eventual release Common's "Universal Mind Control" album. Could this be a reason for the boom of rappers going into other areas of interest?

PEACE

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