Oh Hip Hop!

Oh, Hip Hop! The things you do to my soul is indescribable. There is simply nothing like hearing the most perfect beat with an intelligently written, completely original verse delivered with impeccable mic presence. That "ewwww-weee", head-nodding, "hold on I gotta hear this again" moment...... Its like discovering love for the first time, over and over again. Hit "Play". Hit "Repeat".

How I wish people in the world who are "avid hip hop lovers" would take the time to really listen.....How I wish they would take a few minutes and request amazing local music be played the radio. Instead, they take all the time in the world to complain about how much they dislike rap music. How they cannot stand the fact that music doesn't mean anything anymore. How they hate Soulja Boy. They update their Facebook statuses full of verbiage about how Hip Hop is dying.......Not only is that completely false, but if the complainers put the smallest ounce of that negative energy into supporting local artists, their complaints could be relieved.

Hip Hop breathes. It lies underground, compelling the people who are really searching for it to come back and visit. It slithers from person to person on burned CD-Rs and free downloads that not enough people take the time to click on.....Oh- but of course those people miss Hip Hop.....They can't seem to see the smoke that lies behind the eyes of an artist that probably works right next to them, his heart smoldering until he can afford to get back into the studio and let the consuming fire out in the form of a track so hot the sun is somehow dimmer......

Maybe if those oblivious people who long for their souls to be somehow mended just stopped.....Stopped and listened to the kid who wants to hand them a free flyer.......Stopped at a little club just down the street to see a show with some guys they have never heard of before......Stopped standing on the ground and put their ears to it..........

Oh Hip Hop! You have the power to magnetized the world....If only people's backs weren't facing you. If only their eyes weren't focused up at the stars to see what everyone else was looking at......Sometimes you've got to look down. Hit "Play".