Brown Sugar

“When did you first fall in love with hip-hop.” That’s a famous quote from the movie Brown Sugar. The movie Brown Sugar is interesting because it shows the life of two individuals who fell with Hip-Hop, but it uses parallelism, because they fell in love with each other. The two people who fell in love with Hip-Hop, were not even artist, they took a different route in making a career while showing their love for Hip-Hop music. So the line “when did you first fall in love with hip-hop,” is a loaded statement. It could mean the actual music, it could mean the lifestyle, it could mean a person (that you associate with hip-hop), etc.. The concept is relative. But, the main point in the movie is that lots of people are not in love with hip-hop, they lack the passion that is so greatly needed.

Every new artist should be asked the question when did they fall in love with Hip-Hop. There answer will tell us a lot about their passion for the concept of Hip-Hop. When I hear answers to this question, I want to hear heart-felt stories. Feelings being conveyed. If an artist gives a general answer it takes away from there credibility and it takes away from their music.

In the music industry today there are to many watered down artist who lack passion, and they use gimmicks to become famous. To me, that is not Hip-Hip. What big business fail to realize is that the reason Hip-Hop is dead is because of the way it is marketed. There is a lot of quality, passionate music that is not being marketed because companies don’t see the gimmick, or the catchiness in a song so they are afraid that it wont sell. But, quality will sell, it sells now without the proper marketing so, with the proper backing it will sell even more.

Even in life the hip hop community is water down, we need to find our “perfect verse over a tight beat.”