Hip Hop Dance Music

Soulja Boy, Fat Joe... shit even Kid n Play. Dance has been an important part of hip hop music for as long as hip hop has been music. Everybody put your hands in the air and wave them like you just dont care. Call and response. If you ever want to rock a mic in front of a crowd and want people to actually feel you and have a good time this is an integral part of hip hop.

A lot of people hate on that Soulja Boy joint and say "he is whats killing hip hop." From the dawn of hip hop time artist have been saying " do this dance," and people have been doing it, and having a dope time at the club. Backpackers need to get off their ass and actually go to the club. Nobody plays Sage Francis at the club, because that shit is not club worthy. By the way: Fuck Sage Francis.

Cali Swag District, with that Teach me how to Dougie shit... that shit is hilariously awesome. The way that I look at it, and the way that I look at a lot of things is: "You don't watch an Arnold movie because of the deep engrossing plot, you watch it because that shit is just entertaining." That can be easily applied to music as well. You don't listen to artists like Cali Swag District because you are expecting super lyricism. You listen to that because it sounds dope. Hip Hop is about having fun. Always has, and always will. Soulja Boy didn't kill hip hop... You did.

Slaughterhouse

This is kinda old news but Slaughterhouse is the backpacker MCs answer to all that " annoying shit you hear on the radio." Backpackers came in their under-roos when this rap group was announced. Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Crooked I, and Royce Nickle 9 is who the group consist of. NOW from what I've heard of each of these artists on the solo tip, all of them (with the exception of Joel Ortiz because I never took the time to actually listen to him with a scrutinizing ear) make decent music. With that being said, there is no way anyone can say that I am in any way shape or form hating on slaughterhouse.

They will never be popular, or members of the cool kids club because Eminem signed them to Shady Records.

Now I like Eminem as much as the next guy... but seriously, there is NO WAY ON EARTH I would ever sign to Shady Records. The goal of being signed is so that you can get paid, and have a wider audience while getting paid. Once again, they are signed to Shady Records. The only person on Shady Records that is moving units is Shady. I guess you can count 50 Cent ... but that guy just needed capital and then Eminem left him alone to print money. Wheres Obie Tryce? Where is Stat Quo? Where the Fuck is D12?? And those 3 are artists that I actually followed and tried to see what they were doing.

Bottom Line: Slaughterhouse is good on paper. They all got dope rhymes, and got good producers working with them........ but they probably are barely going to go gold.

To Start this blog off.....

My name is Royalty. I've been making rap music for way too long.( http://www.reverbnation.com/520royalty ) Listening to rap music for even longer. I've done a bunch of shows in the Tucson, AZ circuit with a bunch of different artists out there. Some dope, some wack. I have opened up for a bunch of music acts, like Bone Thugs, Willy Northpole, Do or Die and some others.

I have a horrible confession to make. I used to be a backpacker elitist hip-hop head. I used to only listen to things like Def Jux, Heiro, and all that "Purist" hip-hop. I used to HATE mainstream artists like for example, Ja Rule, DMX, and Jay Z. I grew out of that phase once I got smart enough to realize that a great deal of them backpacking MCs tend to rhyme 15$ words with other 15$ words simply for the sake of doing so. When I grew out of that phase, I also stopped making rap music like that ( thank god).

This blog is gonna be about the realization that I had during that conversion. Mainly the fact that there are good underground artist, and there are bad underground artists. Just like there are bad mainstream artists, and good mainstream artists.