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Shade 45's Sway in the Morning show is turning into a really good spot to catch interviews and musical performances. The show is filmed, then uploaded to Sway's youtube channel where fans can watch Devi Dev and Sway chop it with everyone from new school rappers like Astro to legends like Erick Sermon.
E. Sermon was the latest guest on the show, and he had some very interesting takes on hip hop. With so many different types of rap acts, Sermon feels like it should be broken down into more than one category.
"The whole thing is...look at rock and roll. Rock and roll respects their craft like hip hop respects our craft. You got some artists who don't know how to express like I can because I recognize what's in and what was before. This is not my era. I don't write songs to compete in this era," Sermon said. "Sade came out and sold 546,000 pieces. Her fans bought that. The young people don't know who she is and she still managed to sell all them records because of what...she was Sade and the fans are still there. But when you have these other genres like Britney Spears or [Christina] Aguilera. A rock and roll person don't wanna see them in that category. They wanna see them in their own lane, which is pop. Or Blink 182 will be alternative rock or punk rock. Or when wanna put soft rock in there with Maroon 5, but they won't put them in rock and roll. But they put everything hip hop in that one umbrella. They'll throw TLC in there, they'll throw Mary J. Blige in there. They'll throw whatever in hip hop because that's the one genre without having categories. Why is that?"
Sermon then broke down how he would categorize hip hop.
"I feel like the underground should have underground, the opposite of hip hop which is kick, snare, samples, beat and the conversation of a hip hop artist is either lyricism or either message," he explained. "Then you have the party [rappers] which Lil Jon would have called crunk at the time. But then you got the south. They running [things] for 14 years. That's them...you gotta give them their own music lane. So it won't conflict with Kendrick Lamar who's a spitter. They call him because he's new, but he really don't belong on records with certain people, he's a rhymer. You have to put Machine Gun Kelly--him and Waka they're stage divers. They're kinda like heavy hip hop so put them in a heavy rap category like heavy metal. Again rock's got all types of stuff going on. Just the fact that we can have a balance."
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