Value Check.

The days where music was solely for mental enhancement are long gone.  We have reached a point in the arts where those who choose to think intellectually, or focus on more than the latest clothes are being ostracized. Which leads me to todays topic, has todays music altered our values as a race?  The first music from our people that's recorded would be the negro spirituals sang by slaves.  When they were singing in the fields, they sang about prosperity and making better lives for themselves. Not killing master because he's an opp, even though they were the supreme example of such.  Later we reached the Harlem Renaissance which was very instrumental, causing mental stimulation as well.  The days of Miss Billie Holiday singing are long gone.  During this period, making music was a privilidge.  Everything was organic, natural, and thought about for long periods of time.  Today's music has gotten us to caring about what the next person can afford.  Why?  Have we entered the phase of life where materials are the only thing that matters? What's worse is, many of us are buying things we can't afford to "keep up with the jones's" rather than taking care of our priorities.  If people my age have gotten to the point where there are murders over Jordans, and sexual favors are being done for Louboutins what's to come next for the five year old students screaming "No New Friends?" Newsflash, new friends are how we as a people can make connections and prosper in jobs and industries.  Loyalty isn't acheived solely from years of memories, but from an allegiance you and others have together. In the music previously stated, they were loyal enough to wait until it made it to their part of the US. Since technology has intensified wildly since then, we can hardly wait for albums to drop without them leaking first.  The microwave era we've grown accustomed to is hindering us all. 

The Rap Up- Music is for entertainment purposes, not to alter our sense of reality.  If you wouldn't make a decision before you heard it rapped or sung about. Don't make it.

Love Always,
-Deshauna