The Death of......

Wow, so much goin on! What it do y'all? Remember me? I'm the Blak Smith & I'm still approvin my messages. What about you? How y'all doin out there? Haiti had a big storm the other day & caused MORE DEATH & HOMELESSNESS. Let's see.....uh...Iran had a 6.1 earthquake & though I told y'all that NYC might get an earthquake in September, it AIN'T happen & we got 2 days left in the month. I hope that it doesn't happen but.....I saw a link on FB sayin that there is a Bitchup eddie long sex tape. I didn't even go in on that link bcuz if the accusations are true, I don't wanna see 'em. It's just so much goin on. Well, it seems like ya boy Chris Breezy did his MEDIA TIME & properly weathered the storm of his riri thing. Accordin to the usa today, dated 9/24/10 written by Steve Jones on page 11D, the headline read, "Fans are starting to climb back on board with Chris Brown." The subtitle said "with No. 1 song and album on the way, singer is restoring reputation." Need I say more to that? North & South Korea could be goin to war at anytime which would lead into China & the US gettin it on. Ya see, the US needs another war to finally shut this mother down like they want to! Man, I'mma keep this prelude short. I wanna talk about MUSIC today & how it really relates to all in this world. So with that, LET'S Get it IN!!!

Okay, the music industry. Y'all already know that I covered HipHop has gone WILD! Parts I-X. Y'all know that every so often, I cover music & the ramifications thereof. What happens when the ghost in the machine dies? Well, let's take it from a white woman artist named Aimee Mann as I ran across an interview in the Atlanta Journal Constitution dated 9/24/10 in the Entertainment Section on page D7. The interviewer was Holly Aguirre. This is pretty heavy stuff here. Check out what she got to say.,
Q:Your turmoil within the music is well-publicized. Do you forsee a change or a backlash to come?
A:I don't think the music industry will ever be the same. I think there will always be oppurtunists who will find a way to make money off of people who make music. That is going to evolve into mostly manufactured pop where they bring in songwriters, producers, stylists-where the artist is more of a product. Where the money comes in is having all these tie-ins with other products. Britney Spears has her perfumes and clothing lines and stuff. The music helps to sell that as opposed to to being what is sold because people just don't pay for music anymore. Anybody who is in the music business thinking that they're going to make money is crazy. I think the supermanufactured stuff will get bigger and bigger and that's what you're going to hear. The indie stuff just has to be more and more homemade because it's too expensive to make a record with musicians and studio time. There's not much of a middle class.
Now to all y'all out there, I quoted a 50 year old white woman who has been a singer for some time, has been nominated for an oscar & has no reason to lie to anyone as she has nothin to do with HipHop as far as I know. When she speaks here, she ain't thinkin on the next lil wayne or paul wall BUT she is somebody we can HEAR with our ears, SEE with our eyes & LOOK at for what's goin on from an impartial source without prejudice! To all aspirin artists, read those words again as she's speakin on the industry as a whole! She said you gotta be CRAZY if you think you gonna make money. Yo Pa, that music better start bein made like that homegrown you grew every summer on the low. I been tellin peepo since a few years ago that "AIN'T NO FUCKIN MONEY IN THE GAME NO MO & IF YOU THINK IT IS, try & sign & see. You'll be like them dudes complainin in the Source & XXL from years back while thinkin, "nah, not us." The only way you gettin thru is thru 360 deals & if you really want that & don't know what it really is, you hustlin backwards. Look that shit up yo!
Now, I ain't gonna make this LONG like eddie but....The technology is now so cheap & everybody has access to a computer such that, music will have to be real again. That organic, made ya own instruments from animal skins & such will win over electronic manufactured anyday if it's DOPE! As the creme will always rise to the top, THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO RECLAIM HipHop bcuz HipHop is US! Like Ded Prez always says, turn off that radio & that can allow US to determine what can rise to the TOP from the BOTTOM UP! Just like WE created the artform, we gonna define it & ya won't need to be rich to do so. Start off with the digital stuff & when you get to a point where you can get a real band, do so as it is sonically superior & healthier. It should go BLAK to the old style of honin the craft, perfectin it, goin out & then doin it! Shit starts with REAL PEEPO on the local level, not youtube & facebook! They took it & wouldn't let go but now all of the legislation that they did to destroy it is BLAKfirin on them & everybody doin what they fuck they wanna! Dudes just take straight instrumental tracks now from popular artists, sell 10,000 copies of they own mixCD & keep it movin just like that. Dudes with followins can do the same & sell their music at point of contact but if its online, it's free. HOLD THAT THOUGHT & MARINATE ON IT! You won't get rich but GET CREATIVE & multitask & be those MULTIGENIUSES that y'all was born to be. In other words, be a complete artist! No more ageism in HipHop as if you heard a dude spittin & you bought it & then afterward found out dude was 47 but he spit that FIRE, would you be mad at him? Hell Naw, dude NICE, what's the damn difference? Ya see, like the arts, THEY time is up & they already mega-rich from ya blood sweat & tears & it's now OUR TIME TO literally SHINE in the SUN/SON! This metaphor can be seen as his TIME IS UP & y'all better be ready for it as he knows it. This is why he sweatin now; he ain't reproducin & he got us out here same sexxin & killin each other to control our numbers! For whatever reason, we have had 'em in a losin position & always have used a sense of justice or compassion & when they strengthened back up & got in position, THEY came back & got what they wanted bcuz we always allowed them too. The age old sayin about those not knowin they history bein condemned to repeat it ring true & we won't allow it ANYMORE! I luv thru INSPIRATION & so if this depresses you, don't come around me yo! Nah, his time is up BUT he wanna take as many of us with him as he possibly can. He has created the vehicle to destroy HISSELF & we can liken it all to a one way unstoppable locomotive train & we way in the back not knowin when it's gonna stop; but we all waitin for the other shoe to drop. As most of us only wanna kill when it's JUST US, we gonna have to allow that train to take its course. Will you be with him upfront on that day or with us in the BLAK? The DEATH of..... ..... is IMMINENT