WHAT IT TOOK TO INSPIRE ME TO WRITE AGAIN...

These last couple of days I haven't really been active on here or posted anything relevant, unless it is promoting myself or the artists I work with, or things of that nature. Mostly it is based off a few things, that often plagued my thought process if not, frustrated me.

That after all this, ignorance is still bliss.

These next two days, are two that mean a lot to me, one being that it is Martin Luther King Day tomorrow. The other being that on Tuesday, HISTORY will be made. Tuesday, will be the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama.

Now, within the weeks prior to Obama's inauguration, I have seen and heard things everywhere, that somehow effectively changed the way that I look at my race, or more specifically, my "peers" in the rap game.

The belief that one thing is for certain...

Niggas would rather change the weather before they change themselves for the better.

Corny, yes. But other than that, this is how I feel. More so, there has just been lingering thoughts in my head, that make me believe, what does it take for someone to look at the opportunity that we have, and use the opportunities that we do have, and use them for the greater good. For example, why are rappers still talkin' 'bout "ballin'" when we are in what is known as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression?

I know some of us, can't live without it (me...although I'm too broke to ball) but seriously, when you do shit like this, this is unexplainable and indescribable.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhH807hiUHbp56CGH3



Or...when niggas rob other niggas that appear to have squeaky clean images and then are robbed of their chains and shit...but yet somehow, manage to wanna transform into another one of the many fake gangstas disintegrating the black and hip-hop culture, based off the scare of their lives....

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhB7cHVzkUvPP7pzfu



And going outside of niggas, even the thought, that after the injustice we witnessed in the Sean Bell case, this still happens.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhE0dHVZnvi3Dxl8a2



So, here's the deal, internet thugs, fake gangstas, bad rapper/actors, police brutality, racists, the declining economy, the fear of what will happen in the future for myself and everyone, has molded me into having a very irritable, impatient, pissed-off mentality. One that for my art, will fuel what anger I do have inside, and direct it in a positive manner.

As I believe I had mentioned before in my blog, that it was Barack Obama or in fact the whole election in general, that had persuaded me to follow more politics, the positives and the negatives. I come from a neighborhood where our views are often twisted into what others would rather have you believe other than the truth itself. There are so many things that I have kept bottled in for so long, that I feel that NOW is the time for me to express that through music, especially if I sometimes can't do it here, based off of the disgust that I have for those that still allow others to look at the world in a negative light.

Tuesday, for me, means that we can no longer make excuses for being held back by others, it means that we have opportunities presented to us now that back in the day, we as African-Americans would brush off, based off of doubt, and it definitely means, that for us now, we HAVE to get our acts together, for I know that every action and every choice President-elect Obama makes, will be under a microscope.

Time will tell, but right now, I hope for the better, and the better is what makes me write again.