Anyone who has ever met me or even seen a picture of me is going to think this is an odd topic. I just am not crazy about writing yet another blog about how I won or lost a couple of thousand playing some random guy heads up. That gets boring. So I figured I would take on the main reason I think hip hop is on the decline.

Strippers!

Every hip hop song is about shorties on a pole. At first it was mildly funny the thought of rap artists flaunting their new found riches at the local strip joint but when those songs start getting sung by 7 year olds that hear them on the top 40 stations the writing was on the wall.

Strippers were just a short cut. Great beats need good lyrics not short cuts and so few artists are doing that well and that is why hip hop is on the decline.

Want proof, check this out it is Run DMC’s Rock Box, which I think is still the best hip hop record ever (though the video is lacking a bit).

By the way, if I could meet one guy in business that guy would be Russell Simmons. I watch Run’s House just for his cameos. He is so brazen and uncut it is refreshing.