Jay-Z is for Lovers

I don’t get what all the kids are talking about anymore. I used to be hip. I use to be able to pick up any jive they be putting down, but now I feel old. I’m 22!! Music has gone steadily downhill through the years, or is it that I’m just now stuck in the ‘90s as that’s when I began listening to music. Am I THAT guy now that only listens to things they grew up with? Have I become what I have found as perfect fodder for old-people bashing throughout the years?

Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine. All great bands, but can they now be set aside with the likes of Zeppelin, The Beatles, Miles Davis and Sebastian Bach (the good one that pre-dated reality TV)? I turn on MTV and I’m struck with the beautiful faces of the Jonas Brothers. If they are currently being compared to the Beatles, is it that this generation’s taste has been deluded more than our drinking water or are my ears too filled with old-man hair to hear the music?

And who decided the Jonas Brothers would even be worthy of a second listen? They’re everywhere. On commercials, on the radio, on billboards, in my dreams. EVERYWHERE!!

But rap is a different story all together. Rap is timeless. Biggie and 2Pac are just as good now as they were before they faked their own deaths. OK so maybe rap has been watered down with all the Puffys, or Diddys or B. Shittys, and with 50 Cent selling his soul along with every item of clothing, cologne, soft drink, video game and adult diaper you can imagine. But 60 years from now, I’ll still be listening to my iPod, while my grandchildren listen to the audio/video chip implanted in their brains at birth, and rocking out to Wu-Tang. But will the Killer Bees be just another fad, like disco, sliced bread or computers?

Can you imagine your grandparents listening to rap?