A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.
Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.