Coolio Is Better Than You

Never thought you would wish for me...

Most new hip hop fucking sucks. I don't even know what gets radio play down here, because as soon as I turn the station to hip hop - I get a cacophony of crap that makes crazy Mexican love songs on ciento cinco punto siete sound like angels. What happened to verses and a chorus, or I don't know, an attempt to make music? Let's create a song, not just "lay a mauhfukin track."

Remember "Gangster's Paradise?" This song was a ballad about a troubled young man who was tough as hell but still realized his mortality. Remember this?

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left.

This is a great use of one of the most beautiful phrases in the Bible, turned from hope to dispair. Check out this one.

But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it.
Me be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of,
You better watch how you talkin, and where you walkin
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk.

Have you ever been threatened so eloquently? If Shakespeare was a ganster rapper - I wonder if he could improve on this.

Even Coolio's party song "1,2,3,4" from the same album was better than the crap playing now. It sucks because most of the good hip hop came out in the late 80s and was about done in the late 90s. Back when I was in college - when Next or Monifah or Ginuwine came over the speakers - everybody, and I mean everybody was bumping and grinding. Nowadays, I go to some of the big clubs in here - and no one who isn't half in the bag is on the dance floor. Why? The music sucks.