RAP : The Unwashed Masses

Good day to you all. I would just like to start off by saying that these rap posts are MY opinion and should not be taken to heart. So dry your tears all you sobbing Lil' Wayne fans and drag yourselves out of that hole you're buried in; surrounded by posters of your 'idol.'

Anyway, I would like to address another topic on rap music that is close to my heart. MUSIC VIDEOS.

To put it mildly, music videos are basically meant to convey the message of a song through visuals. Well according to Wikipedia it's more like...

"A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.^[1] Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, whenMTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip"."

Well then again, that's just the mentality of Wikipedia. Anyway the real problem at hand that I would like to point out are the messages the rap videos convey. The fact of the matter is, there are very few rap videos in the mainstream and popular life that convey a very good message. If there are any then please inform me, cos I certainly haven't come across any.



Most rap music videos today comprise of these 3 factors : 1)MONEY 2)BITCHES and 3)RETARDED DANCE MOVES.
For example, let's take the very famous 'hit' song of 2012, 'Bandz A Make Her Dance.'It's no secret how much I despise this song. However, the video is even worse. The fact that Juicy J attempts to grab the attention of the public with an army of mildly attractive loose women, gyrating their silicon-filled asses for the unwashed masses. As if everyone who watches rap videos is some pre-pubescent horny little white boy who dreams of getting his hands on a real sister from the motherland. Or some black guy who dreams of getting his hands on 'a bad bitch who's on the TWERK team.' They choose to show women in an unflattering light and choose to view these dancers at bad camera angles that regular girls would probably cry over. What disgusts me the most is the constant portrayal of women as strippers who will do ANYTHING for your rubber bands or your dollar bills. Juicy J, get your ass out of the strip club and proceed to go search for Tupac's ghost to teach you how to rap. And just because you carry around a bag full of $1 bills tied with rubber bands that 'make them bitches go insane', does not mean that you are 'getting money bitch!'I'm not even going to attempt to decipher what Lil' Wayne is saying in this song, due to the fact that I don't pride myself in applauding people who think of themselves as poets just cos they think EVERY DAMN WORD UNDER THE SUN RHYMES WITH NIGGA!

KILL. ME. NOW.

We all know how much I hate 2 Chainz but I will leave that story for another post. To put things mildly, when 2 Chainz' verse pulled up, I could LITERALLY feel the brain cells dying in me. I believe that now I have justification to fail math due to that song...just saying. :P

Now about the money...

Jessie J could easily pop out and start singing that, "It's not about the money, money, money." However Jessie, since you pulled in a cool $5 mil. as of late April 2012, you won't mind if we download that album of yours from songlovers.com right? Didn't think so. -_-

But ladies and gentleman, Jessie J is not a rapper but provides a very good example.

Either I live under a rock or have you noticed that nearly EVERY music video out there has the main artist showing off their money and rap about how they splurge it on cars, Louis Vuitton shoes and, you guessed it, bitches. 

Rappers choose to rap about these things because they believe that it is socially relevant but mostly because they have run out of material. The fact that they assume that we want to hear about their recent exotic splurges on a house in the Bahamas and plastic surgery for their Brazilian girlfriend. I just don't understand it all. The fact that they're waving around dollar bills and bragging about their gold-plated toilet seat just further justifies my belief that rap music has gone to the dogs.

Finally, retarded dance moves. I really don't want to get into this one because I feel that it is a topic that doesn't even deserve my attention. The truth is, rap music has been plagued by these 'phenomenons' every damn year! We had Korean K-pop singer/rapper Psy create 'Gangnam Style.' It has it's own little dance accompanying it and unless you've been living under a rock then you must have heard of it. You will also realize that the internet is filled with lame parodies of this song. I'm sure that no one will remember Psy past this song, considering the fact that he's released 6 albums already!! He will probably fade into obscurity like all those other internet 'sensations' out there...

more rap rants to come....:)