Hopsin is definitely ill. There are a number of sick rappers around who can flow with intensity and still have something to say. He may not be as creative as guys like Saul Williams, but this song is pretty tight.
I like what he is trying to say here, but I don't agree with even
half of his message... I mean railing against sex, drugs & the musical form he is using? Sex, drugs and music are the best things humans have got going for them (for the most part).
The mentality of the kids these days
is pretty lame in a lot of cases, but it is hard to blame them from feeling disenfranchised, apathetic, and depressed. Shit is pretty fucked up out there, and opportunities for young people are about as bad as they have ever been. Why come down on them if they just wanna get stoned and fuck around? You expect them to face their grim reality sober and sexually repressed? Really... perhaps it is Hopsin who needs to wake his husky eyed ass up.
"Curiouser and curiouser..." ~ Alice
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~ Buddha