Hip Hop, its not you, its me! I do not feel that there is any substance to our relationship. You use to have passion and talk about “fighting the power”, social change, and inspire me to overcome the “hood.” You use to take a good beat and put an even better lyrical flow over it, now the beat is simply used to cover up your non existent flow with lackluster content. Now all you do is cuss at me, get drunk all the time, stand for a superficial existence and encourage drug use. You have no substance. What happened to questioning America’s inconsistencies, musical activism, pointing out the plight of the poor and under represented populations– the music and rappers that were more concerned about sending a message rather than selling records? Hip Hop you have let yourself go!

You no longer work hard at writing social conscious lyrics and using the medium of music as a tool to reflect positivity. What happened to driving and identifying with you–the connection we use to have. Now, everytime you open your mouth, I get more disgusted. I simply cannot support you as long as you stand for everything that I am against. You see, I refuse to encourage sexual promiscuity in a world of HIV, I refuse to encourage alcoholism and drug use, I refuse to encourage the use of deplorable language, accumulation of material possessions as social status and display life as one big party. What you call a party, I call addiction. Hip Hop, you are an addict and you won’t acknowledge you have a problem! I think we should see other people…you need to seek help. You need to reconnect with who you were.

You need to really think about answering to the God you acknowledge at award ceremonies, but refuse to include in your work. Simply put, you are a social coward. Who says that if you take a stand, it will sell less records? What about the children? They are looking up to the image of you that you perpetuate in your music. You live in the Suburbs, your kids go to private school, you eat at five star restaurants and drive cars that cost more than some low income neighborhoods! You encourage them to buy your CDs, but are unwilling to give back to them. Children and teenagers need more from you! Your listeners deserve better…you have really let yourself go!