Music
The Nillaz
September 11, 2005
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of all kinds of music, including rap, but there's just something about suburban white guys rapping about hardcore sex and drugs that I can't stand. I mean, I really like some hip-hop and hardcore rap
rap. Everything from Tupac, to Snoop to some old-school Ice-T; these guys really made you understand what it was like for them living in and around Los Angeles and in the ghetto. Their music really made you get into the whole scene and understand what was happening out there. I would bump it in my mom's car pulling into the local hang-out trying to look cool. But that was in high school. I didn't try and model the rest of my life around it. I grew up in Hartland. Who in the hell knows where Hartland , MI is? Just because I listened to this music before doesn't give me the right to go out and make an album about doing hardcore drugs and getting crazy hoes in the hood! I might be a little bit of a ladies man, but there are only like a few hundred girls in my entire town!
When the Nillaz first approached me at the Warped Tour, they were extremely cocky, giving me the impression that their music was going to kick some major booty, or at least be decent; man was I wrong. Their CD entitled “Rare Shit: The Mixtape Vol. 1” contains some of the lamest lyrics and rhymes I've ever heard. As for the rapping itself, I'll give credit to one guy out of the trio who has some talent, but for pete's sake let someone else write the songs. Let's try and realize a few things before the next album to avoid such a horrid result:
You're not “raising the roof”
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN EVERYTHING ELSE THAT
HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE BUT JUST DOING IT WORSE
- You're white!
Not that there is a problem with white rappers, just realize who you are before you write your lyrics. If you are a white kid from the burbs, don't talk about drive-bys and selling crack. If you're a white kid growing up in the city, tell us about the hardships in that, not just the fact that you think you're a hardcore thug. Without meaning to your rhymes, all we are left with is a shitty beat.
- The F-word does not rhyme with itself!
That is the whole point in ‘rhyming,' making words rhyme with eachother and sound cool together; not using the same word at the end of each stanza just because it is vulgar and you don't think you'll be cool using the phrase “aww, shucks!” in a hardcore rap song.
- You're not Lil' Jon; maybe Little Johnson
Grow up and find your own style; why does the shortest guy always drive the biggest truck around?
- Send your CD in for the soundtrack of “ Malibu 's most wanted”
Adam Mularski
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