Cheif Keef (Real or Wrong)

In the pursuit of realness, the hip hop game has always enjoyed music and subject matter from rappers that they see as real. When I say real I mean artists that fans can relate to. More specifically when fans from the so-called hood hear music and words from rappers with their same reality and struggle these rappers become popular.This rule of thumb can be dated all the way back to Run-D.M.C. For those that don't know Jam Master Jay the 3rd member of Run-D.M.C was the one that made sure that the groups swagger remained street and reflected where they came from. Other groups from hip hop's glorious past like Wu-Tang Clan, N.W.A, Public Enemy, 2pac, Biggie, 50 cent and a slew of others have been keeping it real their entire careers. Now keeping it real sometime can be a good thing . Take Chuck D, lead rapper from Public Enemy. When we think about the groups message and movement we think of the positive side of being black and empowered. You know that Chuck D is real because right now you can Google him and you will see him doing lectures and speeches throughout the country without the band. That's right, I've seen him live on college campuses still pushing the same message and movement after all these years. Now I don't have to go into details in-regards to how bad things can go when keeping it real goes wrong. In all honesty all I have to do is just say Eazy E, 2pac, Jam Master Jay, and DMX and you'll feel me.
Now it's about to be 2013 in just a few days and our hunger and lust for our artists to still keep it real is at an all time high. Think about it. If an artists is truly more concerned about keeping it real then he shouldn't be considered an artist. Check it out-you don't see or hear about actors and singers trying to keep it real. Actors, singers and even rappers are entertainers. Actors can shoot up everything in sight while acting during a movie. When the acting is over for the day the actor can go home and not worry about how real he is. Because his salary doesn't depend on such foolishness. I can only see one entertainer that carries that kind of foolish responsibly and that's the dumb ass rapper. "WAKE UP"

Is keeping street going to far?

 In-closing Chicago rapper Cheif Keef is the by-product of this rule of thumb. His new CD titled Finally Rich is full of what you and I see everyday in the so-called hood. Young brothers doing what young brothers do. That's right, this rapper is only taking what the great Run-D.M.C said and I quote " we took the beat from the street and put it on TV". For the record I'm not proud of the imagery that Cheif Keef promotes. But when I think about this on- going keeping it real situation that's devaluing hip hop music- it always reminds me of this question. Does the streets dictates to the music or does the music dictates to the streets? Think about it. Until the next time have some fun and get something done.