I feel like Nas may have been right when he said "Hip Hop is Dead" back in 2006. It just seems like anyone can get on a mic and come up with a stupid yet clever hook over some good production. Now do that a couple times while blowing blunts and pour some lean in a double cup, now you have a mixtape. You don't even need a good voice anymore with all this auto-tune business, but surprisingly this has created some "good" and undeniably hilarious tracks and albums. For example Future, a former drug dealer, is now perusing a full rap career with great success. After releasing a few mixtapes with some hits like "Tony Montana" and "Racks" Future then released his debut album Pluto. The bizarre thing was Pluto was really really good, it was a complete album with hit songs like "Turn on the Lights" and "Same Damn Time." Today I'll be putting his free mixtape up called Astronaut Status. The best song off the mixtape as well as my personal favorite is called "No Matter What." It's Future's best work overall with heavy auto-tune vocals and hard to understand lyrics. Once you look up the lyrics though, it becomes very easy to understand what this Atlanta rapper is trying to deliver, here is a link for the lyrics. Some of the great lines future comes up with while he's leaning hard include,
" Anytime we spend time, we spend more than benjamins"...
"What the fuck this high siddity girl want to do with an astronaut kid"
and finally
"You gotta live and learn to make mistakes to be the man."
Future is asking the questions of why this particular girl wants to waste time with an air head like him. And I agree he is an air head rapper, yet talent can come from the most surprising people, and I do have an interest in entertaining rappers.
I think Nas had a point to say about hip hop being dead. Coming from one of the most talented and celebrated MC's to ever get on the mic, I would be upset that people like this are becoming successful without putting in as much time and effort into lyrics as well as the general flow that hip hop requires. But then again Nas came back 6 years after that statement with a great hip hop album entitled "Life is Good." and it is.
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