Monday, April 16, 2012

The Weekend, Drizzy, and Ross


I am going to start off with the Weekend. The author of the article describes The Weekend’s music to be unreal, skeezy, and pretty much not good at all.  Personally, I never really liked The Weekend or got into his music much.  He just sounds like he’s whining all the time to me.  But I’m pretty sure I am one of the only people who feel this way, because everyone I know loves him.  I wouldn’t describe his songs as unreal or not good, he is just an artist I haven’t really gotten into, because I don’t care for his music.

            The next artist is Drake.  The author describes him as an r&b artist who should pretty much go back to where he came from in Canada.  He compares him to the work Kanye West did in his album in 808’s and Heartbreaks, which was not a good album at all in my opinion.  Kanye is definitely not a singer.  I wouldn’t call Drake an r&b artist, because he still does rap.  I think he is just a little confused truthfully.  He singing isn’t really good, but at the same time it isn’t bad.  Drake is just in touch with his emotions.  He doesn’t rap and about selling drugs and killing people, like some artists, because he hasn’t gone through that.  He raps about what he knows, which is one of the many reasons I respect him as an artist.

            Lastly, we have Rick Ross.  The author of these articles loves Rick Ross and thinks he’s an authentic.  I feel the exact opposite about him.  Why does Rick Ross think he became rich off cocaine? He was a correctional officer.  He acts like something he isn’t to me.  Don’t get me wrong, I like Rick Ross, mainly because of that noise he makes, but he seems fake to me.  I feel like he wants to make everybody think all this stuff about him, but I just don’t feel like legit.

            I don’t think artists have to be authentic or real in today’s music.  All you need is a good beat, a cool voice, and a couple good adlibs and people will love you.  If you listen to the words of a lot of songs they don’t make any type of sense, well not to me at least.     

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