"Come Holla I Got the Dollas, Got More If Ya A** Will Swallow"

I'm guilty, real guilty in fact. This blog can go either one of two ways, the side where I ask where has all the good music gone, or why do I still "shake that money" to song that could never validate my womanhood? Well on this day, I'll just get at the question that questions the quality of music (I'll save the womanhood issue for another day).

To begin, let me give you a list of the top five hip hop songs currently, as detailed by Billaboard.com

1. A Milli

2. Get Like Me
3. Bust It Baby Part 2

4. Put On
5. Got Money

(I was just thinking about the content of these songs)

So when I say I'm guilty, what I'm really guilty of is knowing the words to these songs, singing them as if I wrote the lyrics myself and dancing to them as if my tuition depended on it. But I can't help but question where has all the good music gone? I know Lil' Wayne has punchlines for days but where is the substance. I've figured eventually the typical rapper knows he can't talk about drugs, guns, bitches, hoes and his cash flow forever but really, has music really gotten any better?

I'm kinda looking for a song that will give me more than just a swag attack, a song that will more than just the opportunity to drop it low, or hang over the wall of the VIP whenever I get the chance to get in because clubs cost too much. Listening to everyone get on that synthesizer hype and the punchline bandwagon makes me miss groups like The Roots, or Musiq, and even the old Lil Wayne.
I guess I could just look at it as Hip Hop is not dead, its just evolved like every other type of music and this is what it has turned into. Don't get me wrong though, I do like the music, its catchy as hell, but I'm only forced to evaluate the content when artists are more oriented with the quantity of music they put out rather than the quality.

Well I'll leave you with the last line of the night:

"put your right hand in the air and the left one in your underwear...."