I will start with a simple question. Do you like music? I am not going to wait for the answer, because I already know it. Everyone loves music. But there are all kinds of music. And this pose my second question. What makes a good song? Is it the melody or the lyric? Or maybe the mood, production, arrangement? The answer is somewhere in the middle. I started with these questions, because today’s music seems to lack one of the important ingredient: the feeling. If I was to answer those question by today’s standards, the main and sometimes only ingredient for a good song is monotony. Nobody is making music because they feel it. It’s all about the money.
I’m looking at mainstream rappers and all they seem to talk is money, riches and so on. Where is the love in that? And the sad fact about that is that they are role models for our kids. What are the moral values our children will learn from this violent music?
I am not going to throw rocks at nobody – I love hip-hop music, but when I look at these new music stars, it’s like I’m having a bad deja vu. The same girl/boy singing on the same synthetic melody, with the same simple...