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Yesterday, Jason Whitlock (a sports journalist), was a guest host on Jim Rhome’s sports radio talk show known as The Jungle. But to my surprise, instead of discussing the latest sports news and headlines, Whitlock initiated a topic. The hot topic of the two hour program was the hip-hop culture and how it’s affecting professional sports and athletes. Read the entire entry …
Another exclusive, a review of Kelis’ surprise performance in South Africa. I like a lot of Kelis’ music, and her last album was good. Not to sure about the outfit.
Article & Photos by Khetha Mkhize
Photos by Peter Morey
RealTalkNY is going international lol, my homey Khetha Mkhize sent in a review of John Legend’s performance in South Africa. If anyone is attending events hit me up with your review and a picture if possible and I may post it up on the site.
Fabolous’ fourth album, “From Nothin To Somethin,” hits stores tomorrow June 12th. While people will complain the album is feature heavy, I think it is Fabolous’ best album yet. Check below for the review by Samir Siddiqui and leave your thoughts on the album.
RealTalkNY presents, What Hip-Hop’s Been Missing. A top 5 list of the things the hip-hop game is missing right now. Read below and feel free to discuss.
5. New York – Over the past couple of years, hip-hop has seen southern music rise to prominence with the emergence of some of today’s most notable emcees hailing from the south. It’s no denying the influence the south has made on the hip-hop culture. And although it’s good to hear from the once slept on region, it would be great for hip-hop if New York and the east coast came back to add more diversity to the game.
4. GOD MC – With the list of top emcees getting shorter every year and your favorite rapper getting older, hip-hop needs a new voice. An emcee that has the talent to put out top-selling albums and at the same time possess enough charismatic appeal to appear on shows like Oprah or Bill O’ Reilly to defend a culture that’s always been scrutinized by the media.
3. Classic Albums – This past year in music, artists and record labels saw album sells plummet due to bootlegging. Whether or not this has lead some rap artists to focus more on outside business ventures than there music (which has hurt the quality of albums) is up for questioning. And like many others, I’m guilty of buying an album off the strength of one single (damn you Rich Boy), then I’m greatly disappointed when I purchase the album and it’s filled with nothing but album fillers. Hip-Hop is definitely in the need of that one classic album.
2. Originality – Yes, even this still matters in today’s music industry, but it’s definitely hard to come by. When there’s a successful rap artist, industry execs tend to try and clone the artist and duplicate their music by putting out a carbon copy version of the same emcee. This leads to the over saturation of the same type of music, which ultimately hurts hip-hop.
1.Quality Music – Rather than letting their talent speak for themselves, more and more rap artists are looking to ride the wave of an overly publicized rap beef to sell records. This doesn’t work all the time, (please see the career of Gillie Da Kid for more details). In order for the hip-hop culture to continue to grow and remain relevant in today’s music industry, our artist need to put out quality music. That is and always will be the bottom line.
RTNY now poses the question to you, what do you think hip-hop’s missing?
It seems like this was suppose to be 50 Cent’s summer to take over. Just as Spiderman 3 was a guaranteed blockbuster, 50 Cent’s new album was expected to take over the charts. Everywhere you looked you saw advertisements for the new Spiderman 3 movie, probably the most hyped movie of the year. 50 Cent’s media blitz was in full swing, he took over Rap City for a week, appeared on TRL & 106 & Park, released two new videos and had a performance on the BET awards planned. Unfortunately 50 Cent was in for an abrupt change of plans.
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