Has Hip-Hop Gotten too mellow?

So recently Jay-z commented on the fact that he thinks weed smoking has gotten to the point where it is affecting hip-hop music in general, making everything extra mellow and soft. A link to his comments is right here courtesy of Contactmusic.com (ironically). The first blush attitude would be to write him off but he isn't completely wrong is he?

Look there are a lot of reasons right now why a

That Hip-Hop I Live for

Lol yo Onyx still has the feel after all of these years. Sometimes we need to have some angry music to balance out the happy-go-lucky stuff that you hear most of the time. It also has some real feeling and emotion behind it unlike the falseness from a Rick Ross or Lil Wayne.Now Fredro has been kind of annoying lately with his wack ass tales of the industry but the fact they have the idea that

Hip-hop Movie Review - A Day in The Life

So i got a bunch of new stuff lately and one thing that I have is a movie called "A Day in The life". The movie is by Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones of Onyx and first looking at a movie by a rapper with that bland title and an idea of what straight to video stuff normally results in I wasn't thinking ti was going to be worth more than some good laughs. i was mistaken.While the movie doesn't attempt

Where did the Gritty go?

Back in 1994 there were many different hip-hop acts. Nas and Jay-z were hitting the scene as hustlers with ambition. Jay especially captured the mob mentality. Biggie and Craig Mack had ushered in Bad Boy with harsh lyrics and rawness smoothed over by Puffy's business savvy. Then you still had artists who didn't really fit one mold like Naughty by Nature. Hip-hop was at a cross-roads with one