P.O.S. - Bush League Psyche-Out Stuff

In my opinion this is one of the best songs ever fucking written.

Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead (hip hop politics)

So, I'm posting this song for a few reasons. The first one being, that I was listening to my headphones while cleaning and this song shuffled through. I haven't heard it in a while and it took me back to awesome, younger memories of when this song was all over the place...however my current/older/more experienced self, started thinking about how my musical journey has lead me to a point where I don't fully agree with Nas' entire message here. I do agree with his point that the music that's constantly on the radio and on every DJ's playlist, is played out and usually lacks any real talent or unique quality. However, I don't agree that hip-hop is "dead"... (Bare with me here because this whole train of thought will start to turn into a giant run-on sentence, but if I stop to worry about punctuation and all of that shit...my point will lose its intended value.)

In this song, Nas is referring to hip-hop as being the type of music that you hear on a constant loop on the radio, in department stores, and every stereotypical "bar."(Ya know, that type of bar you never plan on going to but somehow end up there late night/early morning...those gathering holes that try to portray a "club vibe" but in reality it's just an overpriced bar with an awkward strobe light, that's always too crowded and severely lacking of any type of seating...the places you have to throw bows like a claustrophobic Moses parting the drunk sea in hopes of finding a slightly less occupied space just to have it Christopher Columbused by a space cadet in search of their cellphone or a conversation about their feelings.) Holy shit, I digress..those types of places are literally my nightmare.

Back to my point, what Nas is referring to as hip-hop here...I like to refer to it as Rap. Hip-hop is good music...it has an intelligent message and a captivating beat. Rap music is played out pop-hop (I don't know if that makes sense but I'm saying that it's "pop-ish" in the sense that it lacks substance. There aren't any meaningful lyrics, and the beat is probably chopped from the same sample as the four songs played before it on the radio loop.

At the time this song was made, hip-hop wasn't dead but it was close to being buried and forgotten. I think that Nas could have used this track as an opportunity to talk about something better...not to shine more light on the radio pop rap community. When you talk about something it gains more popularity..in this case, it just helped to further burry real hip-hop's image. Nas should have just ignored all of that annoying shit and stuck to his old school hip-hop roots. With this track, I feel like Nas was fxcking with rap-pop himself. A wise man, Murs once said, "I coulda done a Nas and scream hip-hop is dead, but I got up off my ass and did something instead" (Song: Can It Be). Just something to think about...highdeas are the realist.

Dead Prez - Mind Sex

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I still think that this is the greatest/most creative music video ever created....I don't know how anyone could even attempt to step to this...

Atmosphere - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 2

Currently, I am obsessed with this beat.

Kno - They Told Me

Throwing one of my older favorites into the recent mix of thangs.