It's ALIVE!!!

So in just a short amount of time, Talib Kweli, Common, and Kanye have released new music to the masses.

I say it's time to celebrate the resurrection of Hip-Hop.

For too long, Hip-Hop was drowning in a sea of mediocrity. Granted, someone would release a pretty bad song and then release a remix that included a verse by Andre 3000 or Big Boi or both and it would make me smile, but sad at the same time of the death of the friend that got me through so many boring days.

I fell in love with Hip-Hop while listening to 88.3 in Little Rock. It was only on for a couple of hours a day, so I would turn on the radio and hold up the tape recorder (and pray that Shelley Pope wasn't the DJ, cause he always talked over the whole damn song) to capture the songs that I would play and replay day in and day out. And as I grew, so did Hip-Hop. Recently, I thought that maybe she should be put out of her misery, but I found some underground and indie stuff that kept my love for her alive.

And now, three major releases have shown me that she still has some fight left.

If you haven't done it yet, go pick up Finding Forever, Eardrum, and Graduation. And listen. Don't listen like my boy did, to 30 second tracks on iTunes. Borrow someone's copy, listen, and then go out and buy your own. Support good music.

Maybe they'll make more.