Though I'm classically trained as a cellist, my 2nd love is "hip-hop." BUT before you hit the road, know this...I love old school hip-hop, where rhythm, rhyme and slang discussed the morale, tribulations and "going-ons" of the beautiful innards of "cocoa-life." Sure, there were curse words involved, but there was also a frankness that seems lost in the political correctness of the world now.
True, I'm biased and liberal, but I'm also quite realistic...blame it on my Gemini nature! When this WuTang rapper, the one and only GZA, said "music is in everything," I thought of Mozart, who heard harmonies in his head and could memorize a song after hearing it once. And, Beethoven, who composed, having not heard his own notes, the most invigorating music of mankind. For it was the opening measures of Beethoven's 5th Symphony that inspired the Morse Code taps for victory.
So, please listen to this video. GZA and his panel of young rappers are, in a word, poignant. It's a perspective you never thought of, unless you're a cocoa girl from the '90s, who wishes these popular rappers, who continually water-down the original rapper's creed, would just RIP. Don't worry, I won't put any rappers on blast!
