I was listening the Kendrick Lamar and the Roots the other day, and I must say that I've grown to really appreciate those conceptual songs that really merges literature with hip hop. Just when I was getting bored with what has been coming out these days, my enthusiasm and interest has been rekindled with such genuine narratives and intent to simply tell a story. It was honest and straight-forward, free from the posturing and over-competitive nature that rappers feel that they must always exhibit. While I can often can get caught up in rhyme patterns and cadences, at the end of the day, it is what is being said and not so much how it is said that feeds the soul. It is the content that resonates with me in a way that transcends a form of entertainment. It becomes a part of us. A added perspective. A mechanism provoking self-reflection and analysis.
An old lesson indeed but one that I need to remember ever so often.
-ARISTYLES
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