I think it definetly is a way of expressing yourself etc.
like i see in my beats.
a couple weeks ago i got a girlfriend, all my beats rapidly changed to a more happy style.
a lil while later we had to broke up cause of the most stupid reason every so i was pretty mad and sad, and you could see that in the beats i made then, they where made out of anger but also out of tears.
same goes for the lyrics i write on tthe beats.

all i can say, its not that i wanna make a sad beat cause im sad at that time, but it just automatically happens. at that time i wanted to make another club banger, but what came out was a club banger that people could only cry on, ya know what i mean?

I think music breaks the language barrier. People in different countries speak different languages but music is some thing that anybody can feel I never been to middle east but I love arabian music the melodies and cords. So I think music is universal in a sense.

I honestly think though that one day Hip Hop music we have today will fade out.. and a new genre from it will be born. Just somethin I think

living without music would be a very sad life.

Aye NFX i see your from the Hawthorne area ... I got family over there n it theres a lot of Colombian ppl ... so i was just wondering are you colombian?

No. I am part Ecuadorian tho. Never been there but my father side of the fam is from there.

people began to bang on different objects, and hey!! they make different pitches of sounds, COOL!! now they start to make music, and the instruments advance as civilization advances; then people just started to love them, a clear pitch of a particular sound and rhythum is very appealing to the ear

 both of them right in ma opinion,  culture create music, for example 
my country is bahrain and it has many Rhythms that many people know it through it , we use arabic percussion which discover dem through africans discoveries. 
however , old people have created new Rhythm called FEJERY which it comes from 
diving journeys for pearls.
 
also turkish , its located between europe nd middle east
they re famous wid western rhythm nd the arabic melodies. 

anyway, im tryin to say that both of them re right in ma opinion.


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i think that music is an expression of how a person lives, feels, thinks, dreams and so forth...

imagine how you feel when somebody says something so perfectly....and it's what you have always wanted to say but you could never put it into words....

that's what makes music so special...when a person who is talented to take his or her feelings and express them so well...and when so many other people can relate to that..because that is what THEY feel as well....


that is what makes music so spectacular to me...and that's how it can reach across so many boundaries that have been put up over the years...


yep yep

music is an amazing way to express yourself and release stress from your daily life.  how do i know this?
im fifteen thats how...

so true man u 15 too

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nice blog Nfx ,I think that music is a true form of art and expresses the feelings and the lifestyle of the artists. "They say music can alter moods and talk to you......But music is reflection of self, we just explain it" Eminem-Sing for the moment.Peace

I often wonder about this, and wonder why you relate to a particular music (notice relate not like) and i think its relating to a genre/band/rapper whatever which makes you like it.
Considerin my background, it makes no sense that i relate to any rapper really. i listen and relate to jay-z, but culturally that makes no sense, im middle class and from england and live a comfortable life, so why do i relate to an American from a very poor background who used to divulge in criminal activity to earn money.
music goes way deeper than culture i think, its your true emotion
ive kinda gone off topic, but i find things like this really interestin
great blog, thanks nfx

My theory is that (speaking of party/boasting-raps) is that no matter what they say about hiphop being dea, is that it really is going back to the roots now (people are just blind!), club-hiphop is the one style that sells nowadays... ain't that party/boasting-raps? The only thing is that the musical sounds (such as synthesizers, instruments, effects, technology etc...) are more modernized in 2000's than it was in the 1980's. Just check the other facts too... the 80's are coming back! Many people are trying to bring that old school-feeling into a new school-twist, Adidas are big and fashionable again, but more modern, the influences of electro-house (which is itself house influenced by electro funk = old school hiphop) is sure some aspects of my theory, that... hiphop-music ain't growing apart from the culture... it's finding itself back!

every musical era eventually completes a route that usually comes round to incorporate and emulate previous eras. music like styles eventually come round to the past, of course there are new twists included, which in turn modifies our music.

I love the beat and rythm and melody of a song, if it doesn't please my own ear I don't listen to it.

Culture brews music and that music explains that which cannot be explained via words alone. That's my feeling and opinion. I'm very eclectic in my music tastes and every corner of the world has something that stirs the soul and inspires through music alone.

A world without music is a dead world. ;)

music chage as time goes on , it doesnt even matter even in cultures music chage .... so this ish can relate to hip hop like it chages a whole new duff generation comes in

agree wit ya 300%...

good read.. real good insight

I believe that music is a culmination/embodiedment of the human spirit, human desire, and human thought. That is why the devil may use it to whisper in your ear, or just make you dance at a wedding.

I want to disagree :)

Hip Hop as a culture differs from alot of the other subcultures around. Majorly it differs due to the incorporation of the 4 elements.
Hip Hop is not just the musical expression, it is also dancing and the artistic expression through graffiti. More then that true hip hop
is more a way of viewing things then it is the current hot sound in the radio. I do see your point, and I agree on it to an extent.
But what I wish/think will happen is that there will be a new sybling culture that evolves out of hip hop. Much like UK Garage evolved
to Grime that evolved to Dubstep. Granted those are musical genres not sub cultures per say. But then again, like I said Hip Hop is
not just about the music. Not for us that been dabbling in all areas of it atleast. It is a way of beein, a never ending hunger
to express yourself in new and creative ways. Always pushing it forward, beeing creative and having fun in the process.

Thanks NFX thats true Music is the Best in the whole world. Peace.

i think the music you make is a reflection on how you feel (or want to feel).
a track is kinda like a movie, it really gives you a certain emotion/feeling.
the music you listen to is usually the music that comes close to any ideal images you have in your head.

as for hip hop fading out, i dont think hip hop will last.
were running out of ould records to sample, mainstream hip hop is starting to sound more and more like trance or techno.
every single rhyme you can come across in a dictionary has been used by now (after all its been almost 30 years now)
artists are starting to be less and less creative by imitating the next man.
hip hop will either evolve into something alot different, or it will dissapear.

^^^ so true IMO i think hip hop is already evolving and the big reason why it could die cause us that listern to hip hop are stuck on the old school hip hop

I took this class actually my first semseter in college and I was amazed it gave me a great appreciation of vast styles of music. I think Music and Culture work in balance together. I feel there would be not as much deep expression in music today if it were not for the old pioneers of music. We have music reviews so old we can even translate the sound because its so old. Music has changed just like culture has so just a thought, Lets make the music and express true induviduality rather follow the trend that music is a dying thing, too say that there would be no music would mean no culture and with no culture there is no civilization.

I took this class actually my first semseter in college and I was amazed it gave me a great appreciation of vast styles of music. I think Music and Culture work in balance together. I feel there would be not as much deep expression in music today if it were not for the old pioneers of music. We have music reviews so old we can even translate the sound because its so old. Music has changed just like culture has so just a thought, Lets make the music and express true induviduality rather follow the trend that music is a dying thing, too say that there would be no music would mean no culture and with no culture there is no civilization.

hip hop is my life !

i think every producer, or guitarists or pianist or whatever, should be able to release there feelings thru the instrument. Thats why i love warbeats its helping me develop the skills i need to be able to release thru music! THANKS NFX

touch philosophism
Music can touch the heart ,feeling,emotion of human.
Why??????????????????????????????????????????????

I don't know why music is so awesome, but sometimes its like a universal language everyone speaks. Like, some songs make people from the US till China bang their heads. I personally think thats the most awesome thing since someone thought of sliced bread.
Peace.