Back to the Hop

A little more than a year ago, i had done a post on Hip-Hop, where i had shown my concern over the declining Hip-Hop in the music industry. And within a year, the scene's changed. Just look at the music industry, Hip-Hop guys have turned a rage again.

If you have been checkng out music download sites, you'll be familiar with names like Rihanna, Eminem, Jason Derulo,Jay Z, M.I.A, Sean Paul, Usher to name a few artists who've been in the news for their music recently. And the thing common in all of them - Hip-Hop/RnB/Rap. All of them belong to the same industry.

EMinem came with a new album after a long time - Relapse, soon followed by Recovery, and both sell in enormous numbers even after extreme piracy. Ditto for Jay Z. And Sean Paul came after ages . Jason Derulo, a new name came with a mix of Rock'ish RnB. and all of them have actually come big with their beats.

RnB/Hip-Hop/Rap are more about lyrics with catchy beats, and thats what makes people listen. Afterall, humans want good lyrics which somewhere resonate with them, and great beats to hook on to. Some of Jay's tracks like 'on to the next one' were real dud's , but the beat made them big.

It isn't that rock is dead, but rock is an aggressive music form. Miley Cyrus might be a hit, but at the end of the day, thats not one'll want to hear before you go to sleep, instead Eminem's light raps like 'cleanin out my closet' or Ashanti's 'Unfoolish' or Nelly Furtado's 'Try' would be a good choice.

Seems like its back to the past...