The Power of Knowledge

     It’s incredible that one can achieve so much with knowledge. For me, my life goal is to find the meaning of this beautiful life that I have given. But I don’t even know where to begin, where to start, where to search, etc. Personally, I get most of my knowledge through experience and music. Of course education gives me knowledge but not the knowledge that I seek. I believe that we are all capable of achieving things beyond our capacity. We just have mental barriers that prevent of from thinking beyond a certain point. 

     This song, “The Mahdi” by The Underachievers was a song that really made me think about the true power of knowledge. Both of these artists are very intellectual and if you actually listen to their lyrics their intent is to send a message to people, like myself, to break these mental barriers and think for ourselves. I’m not speaking about thinking for ourselves like what to cook for breakfast, I’m talking about higher consciousness. Once we reach this state of mind our capabilities are endless. Our mind transcends and eventually we truly see what is going on with our lives.

Evolution of Hip-Hop

The evolution of Hip-Hop has changed dramatically in this past decade. Some say its better how it is now, some say it’s not. Being born in this current generation I never got to experience classic hip-hop. Growing up my father listened to Ice Cube, Westside Connection, Eazy-E and other “gangsta rap” type artists. Nowadays all mainstream artists are rapping about “weed and bitches” which honestly gets really old after 2 songs. But the question is how did it going from rapping about “real” things to rapping about more of materialistic things like cars, women, and money?

 
In my opinion you can’t really compare artists from past decades like Tupac to an artist now like Wiz Khalifa, they just don’t compare in any aspect at all. I feel like when an artist becomes mainstream their music topics changes dramatically. For example, before Wiz “blew up” I enjoyed listening to him because his flow was so different and what he rapped about actually had some-what of a meaning to it. Now that he’s mainstream he doesn’t talk about anything else besides money, cars, and women. The only person who I believe that has a classic flow/style is Kendrick Lamar. As said by some artists themselves like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar is going to “revive” hip-hop and the west-coast himself.