Hip-Hop VS Alt Rock

One thing you'll learn about me is that I love music. And I just don't love music because it's on the radio - it's because I am also a musician. Classically trained in Piano and I essentially learned everything else from guitar, drums, and singing.

I respect the classics - from classical to jazz to classic rock to r&b/soul - I dig it. And in the industry of popular music (alt rock - hip hop - pop), I respect when artist create a well written, brilliantly produced, pristine album. I respect artist incorporate new things in modern music, and I applaud it.

I recall during the beginning of this decade offered a brilliant genre of music in alt rock; pop punk, emo, electronic-synth, rock! Muse, Panic! At the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Gym Class Heroes - and it rocked. It incorporated catchy beats, floored vocals, cunningly written lyrics and a series of instruments never heard before in the genre. It was new and it was hip, and I applauded it.

Many of the sophomore and preceding albums thereafter have not really been impressive, much less new or creative. Panic! At the Disco, I recently picked up and to my dismay was horrible. They've moved further away from their electronic sound to a more immersed Beatle's Yellow Submarine album. That was cool - in 1968! A change nonetheless but nothing short of spectacular. Foo Fighters and Jimmy Eat World also provided a very upsetting album this past year - no real change from their previous albums. What is happening the ALT ROCK world?

As of late I've tested other radio stations and found a place on the Hip-Hop stations. Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Snoop Dog, Timbaland, Sean Kingston (yes him included) have recently earned my business (and YES I actually buy CDs of artist I like). The world of hip-hope is going through a change integrating all sorts of genres no other music genre has done before. From electronic to the classics to hard rock and soul/r&b, the diversification of the hip-hop genre is taking a step up and making it work. If ALT ROCK doesn't come up with something new, I just might be spending a little more time in the HIP-HOP record isle.