Michael+Ked’s+OpEd+Article



I honestly feel like our generation has been just a #|complete detriment to society

Let me #|start with our abnormal obsession with technology, and trying to establish a rep for ourselves online. First of all we all know that if you have over 1,000 followers on instagram you're either famous, or some loser on the #|internet. It is the whole myspace effect all over again, " Hey guess what I have 1 million friends on myspace not even including Tom" WHOOPDIE FREAKING DOOO! All I got from that statement was I'd rather talk to some girl in Asia that wants me to send "her" 50,000 dollars or they're going to cut of her hands. Some one trying to tell me that they have over 10,000 friends they have never met, is like me saying," Oh yeah well I over a million imaginary friends, you can't seem them in real life but they exist just trust me" Our generation is just filled with ____#|internet____ popularity engulfed baboons that will sell their souls just to be liked by the masses.

Music now a days, I hate to say it but damn it we've made so many people's ears bleed with our Chief Keef, 2 Chainz, and other so called artists today. We can #|thank the rap community for our current "swag, ratchet, and yolo" epidemic.What would #|Biggie Smalls or Tupac say about the rap we play on the radio. They both would have shot themselves just so they wouldn't have seen where rap has gone today. Rap use to have a message, conveying to people the life they had experienced and what they learned from it. "Huggin on my mama from a jail cell, and who'd think in elementary? Heeey! I see the penitentiary, one day and running from the police, thats right, Mama catch me put a whooping to my backside"- Tupac While in 2013, we appeal to the youth of our nation with lyrics like, "Collect bands I'm a land lord, I gets lots a commas, I can fuck yo mama, I aint with the drama, you can meet my llama"- Chief Keef

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I mean c'mon what ever happened to music like Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Bob Marley? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Our generation is to preoccupied with being a gangster, having a gun, being drunk, and sleeping with everyone you see in sight. Why is it like that? Whatever music is popular at the time is what influences the youth, look at the 70's for example, Sex. Drugs. And Rock & Roll. We're stuck in this vortex of wanting to be like celebrities, why do you think __#|reality tv__ like "Keeping up with the Kardashians" is so popular. We see people with ____#|money____ and automatically assume we need to act and be just like them. When what we should be doing is straying the farthest away from these boiled brained folks. Instead we should watch educational shows like Sesame Street! So in conclusion listen to quality music and GO OUTSIDE AND MAKE REAL FRIENDS, FORGET YOUR IMAGINARY FRIENDS!