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Hip Hop: How Much Should You Sacrifice To Be Relevant?

So as an artist I've started to think about the question of relevancy. Like how much of your craft should you sacrifice in order to stay relevant? In some ways the answer is obvious. Just enough to keep your business alive so that you can have a craft to do in the first place. In other ways, it's less obvious. Take this for example; finding your style as a rapper can be a difficult task. The landscape of rap has changed so much in the last twenty years that it's hard for people to find their fit. In the past what was valued was pretty obvious. Lyrics. You always had your rappers that weren't quite as lyrical but relied on their cult of personality (which I hear was Tupac's claim to fame). You also had your complete booty rappers that were entirely commercial (Vanilla Ice for instance). But long story short, it was a market that was album driven and primarily featured lyricists. Now Hip-Hop has expanded so much that a lot of the things that make it "Hip-...

Kaiser: Tricknology (Rap)

https://soundcloud.com/kaiserunique/tricknology Would you believe me if I said I had to write this for English? The requirements of the assignment was make a song that has thematic relation to George Orwell's 1999 and the real world. Hence why you hear references like Big Brother, proles and Newspeak laced through out the song. The whole thing is a black pride song masquerading as an English project. It talks about the "Tricknology" that white people often deploy upon black people. Their ability to manipulate history since our history as a race is not present, the same way the government in 1984 does. So yea, lyrically I'm pretty proud of this one. Lyrics: Everyday I pledge allegiance To a nation that impedes us And constantly believes that it’s in their best to defeat us From each of our pain I guess they see some type of gain And protesting with a knee more contentious Than kill is shamed They think the fabric is more important than the symbol But that point...

Kaiser: 85 to 15 (Rap)

https://soundcloud.com/kaiserunique/85-to-15 This is my first track and first time using GarageBand. I w rote it after I heard Black Panther reached a billion dollars and it reflects in the lyrics. I’m no Kendrick, but I felt like he didn’t mix enough references in his Soundtrack for the movie. Didn't have much relevance to the movie’s plot or explore the bigger implications of what the movie said about the world. But it’s fine. I got it. Lyrics: Aiyo, my spirit has awoken We’re ain’t just playing tokens You got us in the box office game And then we broke it Just Keeping it a hundred or 99 that’s my slogan  Cuz the other 1 percent won’t be subjected to erosion The smart notice the program, like a pirate knows the ocean And the 85 percent deny the cause of the commotion  That’s our special potion we be ruling from underground We got every nation hooked on this hip hop sound  Cuz a colonizer knows what the fuck is vibrating  ...

Kaiser: Shadowbox- There's Nothing to Stop Us (Rap)

Shadowbox (A Cappella Audio) Google Drive Link I wanna introduce me by myself I’m the Kaiser and as for rap skill Imma give an appetizer Won’t lie If it’s academics Imma dimwit, but not as many can weaponize their bullshit And who’s this? Someone who wants to try Bout to walk up take out two blind eyes And did he wanna die? Yo he must’ve this style was custom Guaranteed to crush em This body’ll bust em Not my physical My mental slash paragraph Violent and lyrical The shit is a miracle And if you wanna learn Step your ass up and wait your turn Cuz I shadowbox with nothing to stop me I shadowbox with nothing to stop me If you wanna come and try to top me I’ll show the peeps that also rockin Weird, measured with the man called Volume, The random in tandem Calculating it all too The spazz is on your ass and you def gonna die Meanwhile then you don’t even know why He long and stalky, he’s comin' like Rocky He’s said he’s gonna box, “like there’s nothing to stop me” Not...