Tonight is the 3rd Annual Hip Hop Honors show and I will most definitely be watching that. I can’t say I still have the same passion for rap music that I did back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, but old school is still some of my favorite shit to listen to, and of course that’s who will be honored. I know I watched last year but I don’t remember a lot of it, although I do remember two years ago for the first when Run DMC were honored and the Beastie Boys with some help from Doug E. Fresh performed Sucker MC’s live… now that was the shit right there.
So anyway, I’m sitting at work today listening to country music, because that’s what we listen to on Tuesday’s now… yeah, listen to country during the day and listen to rap at night, I must be multi-cultured. There’s one thing that I’ve noticed about rap music that doesn’t really pertain to other types of music, the whole “keepin’ it real” part. I remember when gangster rap was at its pinnacle in the early 90’s and everyone was saying, well he just says that shit on records, he’s no gangster, he’s not keepin’ it real. So today as my twisted mind often does, I’m listening to some of these country songs and I’m wondering why no one is checking these assholes since they aren’t keepin’ it real. Nobody ever says, hey you never had a woman leave you and take you for everything you’re worth. You never attacked your ex’s car with a baseball bat, you don’t have a new girlfriend, you don’t get down on the farm. You see what I’m saying here? You have to keep it real when you’re on the microphone, and that means you people in Nashville too.