One CommentAs you may know, I have been a huge Hip-Hop fan my whole life, but really fell in love with it when I went to New York in the summer of 1989. Big Daddy Kane was all over New York with the song “Smooth Operator”, the UK’s own Slick Rick was getting plenty of airplay with “Hey Young World” and Yo! MTV Raps was showing the world the influence Hip-Hop has.
During this period (89 to around 94), I felt it was the transition between the music and the business world …
“What are you asking, if I don’t have the answer/it’s probably on the web, like I’m a damn tarantula”.
Sometimes the simple punchlines in hip-hop are the best and most informative. Weezy sums up a lot in this quote about the Internet. With there being billions and billions of web pages online, 99% of things are covered. In fact, it is harder to not find something. This means everything you want to know or become is potentially at your fingertips.
The key to finding your answer is the question you ask.
I have …
One of the most intelligent hip Hop songs I have heard is “Poet Laureate 2″ by Canibus. If you have not heard it then click here. Also open up 2 browsers:
1) song lyrics
2) Google search to look for the terms, the theories and anything else you might not know.
It’s ridiculous and to this day baffles me how he knew this much. Anyway there is one part of the song that states:
“a wise man sees failure as progress/a fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic.”
I used to be scared to …
