"Clearing Out My Mind"

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/452330356318580201/ Okay, let's get it out in the open right now.  So, spoiler alert, breaking news, full disclosure... Yes, I am a Logic Fan. Controversial. Yes, I know. We can get into that later. So as someone who respects Logic's craft, ability and musical resume; I continually find myself blown away by the disconnect between him and a lot of fans within the world of hip-hop. What's even more perplexing is to my eye it's unknown what we chalk this up to. Logic isn't someone who has just jumped to super-stardom over night. No. He has an extensive catalogue which dates back to his time as the rapper "Psychological" (I wasn't a fan back then).  But since his re-brand to the rapper we know now he's done nothing but deliver. Now I will admit, his two 2019 releases - "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" & "Supermarket" respectively - were both extremely underwhelming. Like honest...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/entertainment/drake-raptors-win-new-music-trnd/index.html This one really hurts. Cause deep down I'm a huge fan. A huge fan! And I do truly, TRULY hope that one day he can again consistently produce the caliber of music which made me and millions of others cap so hard for the better half a decade. But I cannot tell a lie. Aubrey Drake Graham dropped his, quite frankly, stellar 3rd studio album "Nothing was the Same" (NWTS) in 2013. And since that day nothing has been the same in his career. Now I'll be the first to admit, this is not a take shared by many and I appreciate that. But to me the rapper has been unable to live up to that high point and since then has been on a steady, depressing decline. It has gotten to the point where  I personally find it offensive to the game for people to still consider him a top 10 rapper in the game. Now I will give Aubrey this. He would likely disagree and would have all the numbers to prove ...

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/631137335254069087/ For the past three years, I have contested that Travis Scott is modern hip-hop’s Kanye West. In my opinion Travis had followed in Kanye’s footsteps in terms of leading the sound of modern hip-hop. I believed, and to some extent I still do believe, that Travis Scott had  reinvented, refined and perfected the sound of modern day hip-hop; which all artists were attempting to copy and mimic; similar to what Kanye West had done throughout the early 2000s. Although I still believe Travis is a present reincarnation of 2000s Kanye, I may have been wrong to assume that he was the only reincarnation. Over the course of the last two years in hip-hop we have seen Tyler, the Creator elevate himself into another stratosphere. To the point where he now exists in the solar system of not just hip-hop’s, but music greats. Dating back to his odd future days Tyler has been able to cultivate a following which is maybe only bested in the modern...