Hate Mail

I absolutely hate jologs hip-hop. The Philippines has been festering with nasty-a*s posers for years. Lately, they've gone extremely cheap and irritating. I mean, dude, I love rap, hip-hop and R&B. I understand the culture behind the music that encompasses break dancing, clothing and deejaying.

But these young 'uns are pissing me off. To them, "keeping it gangsta" means gang banging with all the hype and none of the bite. I'm just thankful gats and pieces aren't as proliferated here as it it in the 'hoods of the US. They dress like crazy cheap. fake FUBUs, JNCOs, Marc Eckos, Sean Johns and Phat Farms without even knowing that P. Diddy owns Sean John and FUBU means "For Us, By Us". They think the coasts wars are still going down and that they can get in on the action. Lately, they are diggin' the Chicano hip hop with all the vatos and hombres mixed will ill-spelled ghetto speak with all the Zs and the OEs which just kill their vocabs. Dang, if you can't spell right, you ain't going nowhere. They rave on about being the toughest gang and holding down their turf, it's crazy.

What pains me is that my younger cousins are into it, even one of the girls man. What the effin' eff. They're all hooded up with fake blings, crappy market-bought bandannas, over sized fake shirts screaming audacious logos, listening to crap like Gagong Rapper (Stupid Rapper) and all that nasty, senseless jabber about keeping it flip-style. Sheesh man. Anyone who listens to somebody openly calling himself stupid is stupid himself. I borrowed one cousin's mp3 player once to find out what he was listening to. I didn't know the subculture of Pinoy Hip Hop was as inundated with sex-related, empty-machismo and false pretenses rappers as I saw in his playlist.

Filipino Hip Hop is such a dynamic community. It's quest for respect has long been sidetracked by forgettable fakers like Salbakuta and Dice and K9. Hear the real stuff being churned out by people like Gloc-9 and Francis M and hear the true angst of Pinoy Hip Hop. For the young and lost jologs to desecrate the culture doesn't only negate the sense of respect the community is trying to bring, but also is a sorry sorry reflection of how uneducated and uncritical these kids are. I mean, I once listened to insanely stupid stuff like Grin Department and Siakol but I really grew up with Alanis, Yano, Eraserheads and Rivermaya. My hip hop idols aren't the Snoop Dogs or the Ice Cubes, I revered Bone Thugs and Harmony, Outkast and Run DMC in their heydays.

Stop dicking around with all this ghetto crap.