The song is based on a welcomed formula of classic Hip Hop. The beat is 90's throwback and even though there is no apparent deejay cuts and scratches, the hook starts the track off with a sampled cutting feel of vocals from other hip-hop songs saying in a pieced together style, "Hip Hop raised me. It's clear that I'm here for a real reason." The rhyme starts off strong with "Guess I gotta dumb down, for you to feel me, or make a dance song just so you can hear me. My dad spoke wisdom. I remember these words clearly, "always write from the soul (feed) brain to the earpiece." It's original not in the sense of the first two lines, but the third line where he references jewels of wisdom from his dad. As in Hip Hop being the father. Unlike a single-mother raised mommy-type dude who's always singing sweets thoughts to his mother, Fundamental speaks of his dad giving him gems of wisdom in this ode to Hip Hop as well. Still he is able to weave nice metaphors with a skillful cadence to continue later with, "my dad said my enemy was my inner me. And these bad receivers they can't catch my similes."
Fundamental touches on perspectives about the way Hip Hop makes him feel on several levels of thought which also indicates a deeper understanding of the craft, as an artist. He doesn't just stick to the surface ideology of consumerism and points out before he goes back to the hook, " I know things change once you get wealthy. if hip-hop ain't dead, then the chick ain't healthy. (Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Hip Hop raised me...)" As influences he mentions Jadakiss, Talib Kweli, Tribe Called Quest, and Nas which are all worthy teachers.
To me on a personal level. I think that most songs about Hip Hop are instant classics in the sense of a song that you would always want in your catalog, ipod etc. Well executed songs about the culture or the music itself always deserve a special place to a True Hiphoppa. Songs that are not about Hip Hop itself, but more about a personal topic have to have extraordinary levels of skill, concept or originality to become classics. Whereas there are hundreds if not thousands of songs about cars, money, guns, gangsterism, females, pimpin, murder, smokin trees and being the doepest rapper alive, there are probably less than one hundred songs about Hip Hop that end up on CDs. Of course there may be more but I haven't heard them. In fact of all the thousands of songs people sent me over the years, I have heard less than fifty songs strictly about Hip Hop..
One, Kurt Nice
Fundamental touches on perspectives about the way Hip Hop makes him feel on several levels of thought which also indicates a deeper understanding of the craft, as an artist. He doesn't just stick to the surface ideology of consumerism and points out before he goes back to the hook, " I know things change once you get wealthy. if hip-hop ain't dead, then the chick ain't healthy. (Hip Hop, Hip Hop, Hip Hop raised me...)" As influences he mentions Jadakiss, Talib Kweli, Tribe Called Quest, and Nas which are all worthy teachers.
To me on a personal level. I think that most songs about Hip Hop are instant classics in the sense of a song that you would always want in your catalog, ipod etc. Well executed songs about the culture or the music itself always deserve a special place to a True Hiphoppa. Songs that are not about Hip Hop itself, but more about a personal topic have to have extraordinary levels of skill, concept or originality to become classics. Whereas there are hundreds if not thousands of songs about cars, money, guns, gangsterism, females, pimpin, murder, smokin trees and being the doepest rapper alive, there are probably less than one hundred songs about Hip Hop that end up on CDs. Of course there may be more but I haven't heard them. In fact of all the thousands of songs people sent me over the years, I have heard less than fifty songs strictly about Hip Hop..
One, Kurt Nice
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