Lupe Fiasco Breaks Down

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This made me cry my eyes out.  This is so sad and disheartening. I feel for Lupe. I know exactly what he feels. It's like, how much more can you do to shake the ignorance out of niggas in the hood? Why do people glorify the hood lifestyle when we all know that it leaves you either dead or in jail? If not dead physically, then dead spiritually. It seems like no matter how hard you try, there is no hope.

I know from my experience, I've always wanted better. The struggle has always pushed me to want more out of my life. I don't understand how people wake up everyday and not know what their purpose is on this earth. God put you here for a reason, the main reason being LOVE. Not to kill each other, not to hurt each other, not to put each other down. When are we going to wake up and realize that we have to be self-starters. 

We should be lifting each other up in every way possible. Someone, please tell me what we are proving by killing each other? Is something so serious that you have to take someone's life? The sad part is that most of it is over drugs and money. MIND ALTERING CHEMICALS AND GREEN FABRIC PAPER! IS THAT WHAT SOMEONE'S LIFE IS WORTH? IS THAT WHAT YOUR LIFE IS WORTH?

This is so upsetting that I'm just going to stop now or I'll be typing for a lifetime. We need you Lupe! Don't give up!

Is R&B dying?

So, Ne-Yo recently visited The Power 105 Breakfast Club in NY where he decided to make some comments about the a state of RnB and Trey Songz.

I’ve talked to Trey before and Trey is one of them dudes, I feel like could be a serious problem in this RnB world, if he decided to just really put that emotion in there. No disrespect to Trey, love Trey to death. But I feel like, again, the emotional disconnect is there.

...and Trey Songz wonders why Ne-yo is saying these things. That's one of the reasons why I can't stand to listen to Trey now. Everything is over-sexual, no metaphors, similes nothing, just straight raw, imma knock out that hmm hmm music. Okay, that's cool but what about love making? What about soft melodies and harmonies instead of all that d*mn screaming and yodeling?

and Ne-Yo, until he goes back to his old RnB ways, he can't really say anything. But what can you do, nobody really support real RnB anymore so you cant blame Ne-Yo for trying to get his money via the pop route just like Trey is getting his via the sex/fantasy route.

I just want to go back to In My Own Words Ne-Yo,

I Gotta Make It Trey Songz,
 
and even Chris Brown's first album,
Those were all DOPE RnB albums especially to be debut albums. Like Hip-Hop, it's so sad to see the genre slowly die.

Where is Devante Swing, Teddy Riley, Rodney Jerkins, and B.Cox when you need them? Somebody create a time machine for me so I can rewind time and bring MUSIC back to where it's supposed to be. It really breaks my heart to see RnB fade away. Somebody, anybody, please save the music!