November 18, 2009 Hip Hop’s New Age Is Here!
We have journeyed through the desert and finally the oasis is in sight. My fellow hip hop headed freshmen, we have made it through the worse some would say and now it is time for a new popular music renaissance with new rhymesayers prepared and ready to carry their music into the future on their very own shoulders. Connections have been made of the coincidental downturn of the past 8 years of rap music, to the last eight years of poor government leadership here in the states, a debatable notion but an intresting observation no less.
What can be agreed upon, is that hip hop has been givin a facelift and now flaunts a new, fresh and youthfull appearance that continues to grow in popularity and pop culture empahsis. Drake, Wale & KiD CuDi our only three representatives of the new generation of hip hop music, and with artists such as Lil Wayne, Common and Kanye West who themselves have only begun to come in touch with their own prime while still maintaining a spot in this innovative and forward looking group, rap fans everywhere believe a new age has come.
Thus, all of us here at we:Freshmen wanna hear what you have to say about hip hop music and the direction it, and it’s sub genres are moving toward. Who are you listening to, and which new emcee has you most optimistic and excited? Participate in the poll and leave a comment of your personal opinion. Hip Hop is back, and I for one could not be more excited, drop science below homie!
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Tonyela
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I posted a similar poll on my blog a while back..this was a good article. My top 3 freshmen are Kid Cudi, Drake, and J Cole with Wiz Khalifa following closely behind. Kid Cudi is my fave because he basically just created his own genre of hip hop and made people ENJOY it. Thats a breakthrough on its own. Yea, Nelly has done it before but not with such conceptual ardor or creativity and emotion. Drake is in a class of his own and has the potential to follow in Jay-Zs footsteps. The only reason I hesitate to put him on ANY kind of pedestal is because he hasnt dropped any original material yet. BUT you have to have some prominence and skill when you can drop the same mixtape twice and still get nominated for MTVs hottest MC, a VMA, and countless other accolades…J Cole, i dont think he gets enough credit. Period. People know who he is but he has yet to have that one HIT single like Drake did. But thats OK i like how he is playing his cards.
Great Post.
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Mike aka sauce aka apple
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J. Cole is going to be that dude…with jigga backing him…it’s a wrap.