S
ince Cowboy Wiggins created the word Hip Hop in 1978, the sound and style has captivated and held the world’s attention. Hip Hop was once looked upon as outlaw music, if you listened to rap you were perceived to be a hoodlum. I can remember when I was young, my aunt
and I were on our way to church one summer in Brooklyn, we happened to turn on Church ave.
and outside a store shooting a music video was the man who elevated the rap game. You can say
he was the first rapper with athleticism “Rakim”, man I was hooked, later in my youth I would
sneak to watch “Yo MTV Raps” learnig the dances, and the culture.
My first concert which till this day I blame for my forever sore ankles was with founder of
Hotinri Nelson DaMoura . He took me to see “Krs-One” it was mind blowing, then we saw
“RedMan” “The Fugees” Hip Hop is now in all of us. Hip Hop is so embed in our everyday life
that “Jay Z” was influential during the election of the President Of The United States. Now being a rap artists is in line as being the next LeBron James. Maybe not quite, while the general
public would wait four years for “King James” to finish high school and nine seasons as a pro
to see him reach the mountain top. Hip hop artists are not all that fortunate. You are either
platinum or bust but to be a platinum artists you have to grind like James did, fine tuning your
words, while willing to taking rejection and keep persevering.
It really does take seven plus years or more as an Indie Artist to be recognized for your craft.
Reason being Hip Hop has been hit with the stigma of being watered down because of the internet, and so many artists popping out of the wood works. I say keeping coming artists, there
are about nine thousand college football athletes, only a 2.4% that’s 215 make it to the NFL.
Even fewer are actually stars. If you want to be on top of that throne...your going to have to pay
your dues, plus outwork the rest.
Among the several artists that is paying his dues to show that he is he wants to reign “NOW”
Dre Da King, a southern boy who turn into a southern man looking to go for the throne. Fittingly, the title of his street album is “The Throne Is Mine” and this is where my salía que end
and his journey to fame begins.