Under The Crown (A King Eljay Blogsite)

I'm honest. But me being honest doesn't make me real by today's musical standards. Something's wrong with that picture.

I think a few words need to be destroyed from the hip-hop dictionary. Of course, I’m just a devout fan who has yet to be jaded by the corruption in hip-hop music, so my opinion might not matter as much as an XXL blogger, but I might be on to something. Of course there’s a bunch of words I’d be happy to not hear again, but “swag”, “Becky”, and “Buss It Baby” all haven’t been as compromised as the word that I have in mind.

I’m completely honest. I haven’t cursed in my own words on my site, period. I don’t shoot guns, sell crack, smoke weed, have sex all around with every girl I meet, and a lot of the things praised in rap music, I refuse to do. And because of that, I’m considered to not be “real.”

I remember when the word “real” used to mean honest. It used to mean for people to just be themselves and not to be fake and/or shady with others. And then somewhere after the year 2000, it began to change. Somehow, the word “real” and the lifestyle of a street cat became intertwined, and now real people have to carry guns, smoke, drink, etc.

That offends me, personally. I don’t do all of that, I’ve never been the one to even think about half of that stuff, but because of the fact MY honesty doesn’t line up with “today’s rap standards”, I’m not a real dude?

YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME…

And now, even that twisted version of “REALNESS” has been corrupted and questioned. We have situations coming up that question certain rapper’s street credibility, due to them saying one thing and living another. A simple example of this is the whole Plies situation. There have been several stories that conflict with the things he say on record. Reports from concerts, DJ Kay Slay, Trick Daddy, and more recently, Jamie Foxx all suggest that he misrepresents the twisted version of being “real.”

Not saying he's real or not, but if he's not, these conflicting stories are going to continue...

And I’m completely indifferent about it. I don’t care, because even if he was “real”, it wouldn’t matter because to me he’s still not honest. I understand people have to be entertainers, but since when did it become cool to sell out completely to fit into what “mainstream rap” defines as real? You can be an entertainer and be honest as well.

How many people do you know that actually is straight up? All the time? Besides Kanye West? Think about it, and you’ll find there’s not too many of them with the level of success that Plies has. People for some reason keep drinking the crap that rap is raining on them (literally). Entertainers continue to see that changing their image is good for their business, and so they follow the mold, hoping to make a profit off of it. And the cycle continues.

I’m just saying it’s obvious to me that until the fans get to the point where I am and support real artists and leaves the other to die off, then this twisted version of “real” is going to continue to take over.

I can’t get with that. If their real is true, I can respect it (if you lived that way, even if I can’t relate, I can respect it), but I honestly don’t believe over 95% of what I hear on records and ESPECIALLY on RADIO anymore, because it all sounds the same.
I’m just being real with you.

Later.

King Eljay