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What I've found about being invovled in makin' your own hip hop, (I laid down a couple tracks with my cuzins in their albums) is that you find that ability to make your own sound. Then all other music seems to become distant. I mean, I like listening to ol' skool, some of the latest stuff, but all the new stuff is all marketed for a brand that I'm not buyin' into.
But, after makin' your own sound and style, you crave it. Then listening to anything that is outside the genre, in this case the underground Native Hip Hop scene, seems too far off, too far out of the mind set of the Natives makin' and eatin' up the Native Hip Hop music; it kinda puts a damper or somehow spoils your creativity, in a sense.
Really, I can't dig someone talkin' bout cars and clothes and city streets because that isn't me. I mean all of us never grew up like that. Though I have the ability to see through their eyes and experiences for a brief moment, I can enjoy their sound for a minute, but it still isn't me.
But, same as Natives makin' powwow music. Once you start makin' your own original songs, listening to or singin' someone elses songs is going to be different to you. It sounds good but there is still that distance that you have created once you start composing.
Anywayz, support your Native hip hop groups and support your powwow drum bros, share the music, keep jammin'!
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...that's so true....so, so true...
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