Diddy next to copt T-Pain and calls in Electro-Hip-Hop-Soul........ ok Puffy..........

Greetings all, it’s been a while, I kinda hit a roadblock when it came to writing something but I’m back. I few Blogs ago I said that I would talk about Electro-Soul, Hip-Hop whatever you want to call it. I hear people call it Alternative Soul, whatever floats your boat, but there were a few artists making moves in the ‘Sub-Genre’ of Soul and Hip-Hop like J*DaVeY, Flying Lotus to name a few. Obviously most who read my blog probably hasn’t heard of them, much less acknowledge them. The last few years I think Black Music is taking a turn for the better, as far as most musicians are expressing themselves more by taking risks in their music. You are seeing more Urban rock artists, more Black artist doing Techno, which was originally done by 4 Black kids in Detroit, do your history youngsters, you are starting to see Urban Music branch out more into other genre’s of music and I think it’s a beautiful thing to hear. If other artists can do it, how come we in Urban Music can’t do that? Why you ask? Because people are afraid of change and most artists are afraid OUR people won’t accept them because they like Rock or Techno or Country for that matter. They get dismissed as irrelevant until Lil Wayne or Jay-Z Regardless weather they are a multi-platinum artist or a humble starving artist making good music, they are making history and making waves weather you listen to it or not, as long as someone here’s it then they have a marketplace.

If it’s Urban Music, support it, learn from it, pass it along to your fellow man or woman. We are afraid of what’s out there hence the play of the same thing with the same people, doing the same thing on the radio right now. But it seems like ‘Electro-Soul’ is about to hit mainstream, not by the artist aforementioned, but the Music itself, that would be courtesy of…….. Diddy, P. Diddy, Puffy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Whatever he goes by now. Here is what he told InTouch Weekly, Courtesy of www.allhiphop.com “It’s electro Hip-Hop soul,” Diddy told InTouch Weekly about the unnamed project. “T-Pain gave me permission to use the vocoder, the Auto-Tune, and he showed me various tricks that nobody knows but him and myself.”
My Question to you is this music only relevant when you favorite artist get on the bandwagon of what fresh or what’s new? It’s kinda a gray area because most Artists, who are well off and famous, have the ability to be trendsetters and make people change to whatever’s hot in their opinion. It’s cool for people to get exposed, but there are a lot of dope people out there, again we have to be accepting of some of the music.

Well that’s my rant, on the wake of Jennifer Hudson losing her Mom, Brother, and Nephew, and all of the racist hate being displayed at this year elections, I’m at a loss for words right now. My heart goes out to her and her family, and lately hearing about death and how foolish people are is a downer. Some folks are showing there true colors while our respected candidates are on the campaign trail. With some of the economic heartache we are all getting hit with, this tragedy is a unbelievably sad one and I hope whoever did that to her and her family should be brought to justice. Just remember to live, love and coexist with your people.
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Peace and Blessings

Oh Yeah Jazmine Sullivan? Bust Out Your Windows?????? Seriously???????