justnick's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's the 80's, and I'm down with the ladies In a world of commercialism and Industrialism run rampant, the cries of the common man were stifled by society's fat-cats. It was a world in which you were silenced, cut down, ignored and forgotten if you didn't fit in with what white America called an upstanding citizen. It was time for a change. A revolution. It was then that Hip-Hop and Punk music were born. A call to arms. And there has perhaps never been a more bitingly prophetic voice calling for revolution than that of Jay Z, when he says: "Young hoes, ya'll know when the flow is loco. Young B and the R-O-C; uh oh." I mean, either Jay-Z has lost it, or he just stopped caring. When Beyonce's booty shakes, people's brains shut off, it would seem. come on, does anyone know what he's talking about there? And never has there been a more stinging social commentary than Nelly's: Girl: It's getting hot in here. Boy: So take off all your clothes! Girl: I am getting so hot, I'm going to take my clothes off. On what planet is that arousing, exactly? Now, I don't know how you do things in the STL, Nellykins, but to me that's about as arousing as a nature documentary on animalmating habits. It seems a tad forced. Romance 101 for sociopaths. Hip-Hop has always been there to show the world the problems of the common (wo)man, and that anyone who has them was not alone. Take R Kelly's gripping verse: "We were homies for like 20 thug years, we sat in church and cried the same thug tears." And aren't those just the most painful kind? Tupac is spinning like a top in his grave, as we speak. Now, it's not just going to be Nick's rag on black artists entry, cause if it wasn't for middle class white-bred suburbia wanting to play gangsta, this shit wouldn't sell.No, punk, the supposed soundtrack for socio-political upheaval, has been removed just as far from it's former edge. And so this revolutionary, for one, resigns his status as a punk. Tim Armstrong is now selling shampoo and in a video with Kelly Osbourne and Banji from Good Charlotte. The last real punks are dead, and apparently they're being replaced by the people who grew up in the punk era still thinking Billy Idol was punk rock. Punk has become everything it was made to rebel against. The music that told people to be themselves, question everything, never compromise, cry out for change, and above all think for themselves is now being used to sell shampoo and souls. And Che Guevarra weeps. Excelsior. 5:29 p.m. - 2003-10-11 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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