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NICEKRISPY & MR.J AKA BURNINGERMAN PRESENTS: TRUESKOOL "FREE DOWNLOAD" -This project is completely radio friendly- Whats going on ya’ll! We just want to let you know that the Trueskool album is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD! Hopefully you will find the 18 tracks included in the album very versatile and enjoyable! We tried to make a product that appeals to many different walks of life, so check it out and let us know what you think about it! Features on the album include: Nobody Famous, Infinite Skillz, Headcase, Nom aka Cal, Lady E, Noble One & Daniel. All songs (excluding featured artists material) were written and recorded by Nice Krispy and Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Mr.J. Visit: http://www.myspace.com/trueskoolhiphop to download! Download directly: http://www.badrookie.de/nice_krispy_&_mrj_presents-trueskool-2009.zip

I'm sure ya'll get this stuff all the time, but I guarantee this won't be a waste of your time. Underground german producer Mr. J has dropped his Compilation Album G.E.R.M.A.N.! BOOOM, its out haha....21 Tracks + 2 Bonus Joints, over 86 minutes of music... Featuring production by Mr. J for artists Nice Krispy, Infinite Skillz, Nom aka Cal, FaT, DZK, Spoonfull, Lady E, NobleOne, T. Brollic, Joe Stu, Mikealis, Red, Nikko, Simmantics, Santino Sosa, Finale, Mr. Green, Angelina and Brandon Heat And best of all... its a FREE DOWNLOAD of phat underground artists on the come up! Show your support and download your copy right now for free!!! http://www.badrookie.de/mrj_aka_burningerman_presents-german_compilation-2008.rar

The problem that I see, starts with an artist wanting to play a character only part of the time. He rhymes about 'firsthand' accounts of crime that he partakes in...in such a way that his depictions are in first person and present tense. After displaying his ficticious life on the microphone, he then goes to 3 or 4 schools in his neighboring communities and tells the kids that its just an act. Thats all good and well...aside from the fact that his music is marketed on a national level and hundreds upon thousands of kids that don't live in his area, never hear his message. Sure, he may not impact every kid that hears his music in a negative way...but his music will influence some to believe that what he speaks of is 'the way that is' and 'this is how you handle the situation'. Anyone speaking a similiar message might as well be thrown into the mix as well. I recently sat in for a discussion panel with members of the Hip-Hop community with four rappers representing Hip-Hop. Two of the females claimed, 'its alright to be a hoe if your a good hoe'. The two guys on stage were denying they had never heard a rap song with lyrics specifically motivated by violence...so it was pretty much like this...'i've never heard a song where someone said they were gonna hurt somebody'. I should've pulled the bullshit card right there on the spot, but it wasn't my place to. So I just sat back and watched these four artists make a mockery of a Hip-Hop discussion that I was intending to enjoy. So what should be done? Well there are many answers and heres just a couple that came to mind. Promotional Companys, Radio Stations, DJs, Record Companies, Managers, Artists and whoever else is involved in Hip-Hop should all ask themselves if they are in it for the right reasons or not. Are you in it for the money or the music? Are you making shallow promises or are you keeping it real? Record Companies will need to be wiser with the decisions that they make and promote the hell out of an artist if that artist has what it takes. Radio Stations will need to start playing more local music and not just the same ol' stuff. DJ's are going to have to start taking some chances and breaking some rules...if you believe an artists' work deserves to be played in the club, then just put it on. If you believe an artists work deserves to be played on the radio and the Program Director says 'no'...wait til he leaves, then spin the damn track. If you believe in something, then damn it...believe in it. Nobody wins a fight if they never put up a fight. You'll never break an artist if you just let his CD collect dust, never giving it a spin... And lastly...to the artists...clean up your material and stop making foolish music. A lot of people take music seriously and Hip-Hop could appeal to a much larger demographic than what it appeals to today. Positive, Creative, and Soulful content will reign when 'The Future' is here. Create possibilities and understand the world around you...its much larger than a 50 mile range and the place you may be in at the moment. Globalization is reshaping the ways things are done in the world and if you aren't familiar with what I'm talking about, then google it. Maybe one day we'll go on a world tour together.

Well, since I haven't posted a blog in a while I figured I'd drop some thoughts off in this little white box and express how I feel about 'The Future of Hip-Hop' discussion that is brought up quite over and over again...so here goes nothing. The Future of Hip-Hop Written by: Nice Krispy In a perfect world everything is always good and complaints are deafened by harmonious notions. I just made that up, heh. - Krispy I've heard the same discussion many times now...what exactly will be the Future of Hip-Hop? Will it be a 17 yr old kid from Chicago...Or will it be an aging, on again off again emcee that gets lucky for a few years? Perhaps someone from Europe could shake things up and take the US by storm...kinda like The Beatles did back in the day. Maybe the answer is already here and those who are in the most priveleged positions within the Hip-Hop community have their own projects to work on and care not to be worried by a maybe-so. Well, to be quite blunt, The Future of Hip-Hop will not be one individual. It will be a movement of change in the way music is made. You see, what ails us tells us the same story over and over again with different words as if the material has been masterfully disguised and plagerized. To keep it simple, the wrong material and the wrong content is what surfaces to the masses. The same stuff that keeps surfacing for everyone to hear has left many people sick and tired of Hip-Hop. People who were listening to Hip-Hop when it first made its way onto the scene care not for the way it is portrayed by the most priveleged individuals making the music. Among those individuals are many talented artists who do not fit into my quarrel...but they are outnumbered by those who do.