I usually don't like to complain about the state of hip-hop just because I don't feel that it's necessary. Most people running around shouting from the hilltops that "Hip hop is dead" aren't really genuinely concerned with the state of the genre or the culture that's attached to it. So I don't normally like to put myself in that category. But something has to be said at this point. It's fine if mediocre at best rappers want to make crap music on their own but when they start messing with classics or my favorite songs that's where I draw the line. Case in point, Plies' song "Bust it Baby."
Now the first issue I take with this song is that it's pretty much craptastic. Plies sucks as a rapper and pretty much every song I've ever heard by him is lewd and disgusting for no damn reason. His subject matter is not the problem because let's face it, most of today's music is about sex. I'd even go out on a limb and say about 95% of popular music is about sex. That's not the issue at hand. It's the way he talks about it that pisses me off. His graphic images give me entirely too much information and it's offensive to me as a woman. That's saying a lot because I listen to some pretty raunchy stuff. It's also offensive to my brain to have to listen to such unintellectual gibberish. The sad part about it is that I've heard Plies talk and he's actually very articulate which is a whole other issue.
But all that's besides the point. The straw that broke the camel's back in this case was that some wack ass producer decided it was a good idea to add a Janet Jackson sample into all of this foolishness. And not just any Janet song but one of my all time favorites. When I heard it for the first time I almost cried. Literally. "Come Back To Me" is a beautiful song about lost love. I don't think she had "wet wet" an 'em in mind when her and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis got together to create it. I can put up with a lot of wack shit but this I cannot accept.
I also take issue with Ne-Yo for even signing up for this mess. As far as I'm concerned, he makes some pretty good music. He seems to model his music and image after the Jackson image. So why would he attach his name to this? Most of the time he tries to give off this lover man vibe, so does he think that a woman with at least a shred of common sense and inkling of dignity would want to be called a "bust it baby?" I VOTE NO!
This whole project gets a fail. Boo to you Plies and Ne-Yo. Go directly to jail, do not pass go or collect $200.
*Standing Ovation for Mia*
ReplyDeleteThank goodness somebody had the sense to say this.
If you want more fuel for your fire, go to YouTube and look up the Bust It Baby contest. That'll actually bring real tears to your eyes, the question is will it be from laughter or anger.
I agree with you concerning Plies vulgar lyrics and subject matter, and even the subject matter of Hip-Hop/Rap/Crap music altogether nowadays, but after seeing that Bust It Baby auditions, I still take the stance that I've taken for a minute - people will do to you what you allow them to do to you. Plies would never make such music if he didn't have an experience in his life where some woman knowingly accepted the moniker, "Bust It Baby." But yet, I digress.
I'm getting more and more people on the House music train, only b/c rap doesn't appeal to me all like that anymore. Where I use to find novelty in Master P and Ca$h Money, thought provoking complex rhyme schemes from the greats, Pac and Biggie, and even clever metaphors and the troubled pasts of Ludacris and Eminem...I now have to pay to listen to n*ggas talking to me over sampled beats. Way to go, rap game...way to go. The madness won't stop unless we can successfully convince people to turn off the mess and enlighten themselves. And here's the kicker...all this stuff artists rap about nowadays are based on real life experiences, so what does it say about us as a people when we hear Bust It Baby and jam to it all night long? That's what's really up.
Mia, I have not heard this particular song. Hey, but based on what you just wrote, I am not missing much. I heard the Shawty song and that put the B-R-A-K-E-S on plies for me. Great Read!
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