NewMGNGrand (New song from Blu)

New track from Blu called NewMGNGrand I would call it  uhm different but that's what Blu does I guess, also for the moderators this track was released by Blu via his tumblr account which can be found here its also stated in the first link where the music came from so no modding k thx.

I gotta say my personal opinion is *blank stare* what did I just listen too :P

song was corny  :lol:

i think people need to start realizing that the boundaries of genres are going away in music...especially in hip-hop. i think these new artists (Blu, BoB, Kid Cudi, Drake, etc.) are just trying to put out good MUSIC, not good HIP-HOP or rap. they don't limit themselves by saying "I'm a rapper, I can't make a song like this" like rappers used to. good music is good music, doesn't matter if an artist is rapping, singing, talking, yelling, or not even saying anything, ora combination of any of those. people are going into these new songs that have been released in like the last year with the mindset that they're gonna listen to a hip-hop song, and when it's not what they're expecting they're so quick to diss it this song is sick and I wanna hear some more stuff like this from Blu, but I also wanna hear something else from him that I would never expectDaDukies

I was just thinking about it the other day....rock genres fuse so many different things together, why hasn't rap done this? You can point to the Kid Cudi album if you like, but that album is trash and not a good barometer for what I'm talking about [or this song for that matter--I mean, it was OK, but nothing great.]

The real question is, WHERE IS HIP HOP GOING. Most 'hip hop heads' want hip hop to go back to some super lyrical **** but the reality is genres don't stay the same, and they don't revert back to what was popular 20 years ago. Honestly, hip hop is moving in the same direction that every other genre has moved, and that's experimenting with new ****, to do something new. Now what Blu is doing on this song isn't anything new (if anything he's just expressing his ability to call himself a rapper on one song, and Prince on the next song) but it's different, and it's worthy of note. What would be great is to see an album where Blu can rap unconventionally, fusing a song like this, and a typical rap song together...where his rapping can become just another instrument in the puzzle. When Hip Hop can do this, you can colour me interested again.

What's going to blow the whole spectrum open is a bona fide classic that takes what Blu/Cudi are doing [essentially at least--not exactly what their doing, but bits and pieces of their ideas] and brings it to a whole new level...just like G-Funk, jazz rap, gangster rap, etc. had their bona fide classics that nobody could deny, this alternative rap movement needs a classic to give it some weight so that the industry and record labels could start backing it.

Bottom line, **** like this from rappers has potential--it just needs it's own The Chronic to give it some weight in the mainstream. Backpack rappers, and underground rappers dropped classics in the late 90's/early 2000s, and by the mid-2000s backpack rap was all the rage, with dope **** (and a lot of wack ****) being dropped daily. Not to mention backpack rappers (MURS, Little Brother, etc.) were receiving deals from major record labels, and underground producers were producing for some of the most popular rappers in hip hop. 

Also, I think a classic alt. rap album would also give this type of **** some weight on the 'hip hop heads' who are so stuck in the past that they would rather listen to the same old boring ass 'super lyrical' bull****, over what constitutes as good music.