For a while, I started to lose my faith in rap and just started shaking my head every time I listened to the radio. I grew up with rap and rock and can't believe what it's turned into on the mainstream. I gave up hope --- that is, until I started listening to Tech.
The song itself is straightforward, but that's what makes it so powerful. Coming from a dude, by the end of this song, I shed quite a few tears. It's a song that goes beyond the rhyming, past the typical, "OMG, you cheated on me, let me make a song with a heavy-ass dance beat to compensate for how I can't capture the feeling properly!"
Listening to Tech's brought back hope for me in the rap game... people want to party all the time, forgetting there's a lot of shit that's still wrong in the world, especially here in mine and Tech's shared home of New York City. They say talking about these hardships get old after a while, but they don't --- as long as people are hurting from society, as long as they're trying to get out from under the heel of strife, it never gets old.
Keep it real, Tech. You've earned your place with 'Pac, B.I.G., Big L and the rest of the icons. The diamond in the rough of rap.
For a while, I started to lose my faith in rap and just started shaking my head every time I listened to the radio. I grew up with rap and rock and can't believe what it's turned into on the mainstream. I gave up hope --- that is, until I started listening to Tech.
The song itself is straightforward, but that's what makes it so powerful. Coming from a dude, by the end of this song, I shed quite a few tears. It's a song that goes beyond the rhyming, past the typical, "OMG, you cheated on me, let me make a song with a heavy-ass dance beat to compensate for how I can't capture the feeling properly!"
Listening to Tech's brought back hope for me in the rap game... people want to party all the time, forgetting there's a lot of shit that's still wrong in the world, especially here in mine and Tech's shared home of New York City. They say talking about these hardships get old after a while, but they don't --- as long as people are hurting from society, as long as they're trying to get out from under the heel of strife, it never gets old.
Keep it real, Tech. You've earned your place with 'Pac, B.I.G., Big L and the rest of the icons. The diamond in the rough of rap.