Music over clutter
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve been tired of Twitter. Too many links, too many trolls, not enough substance. It’s truly become the new Facebook. You probably have or haven’t noticed, depending on who you follow but a lot of people are migrating out of the social network.
I’ve peeped that people don’t post as much and some even quit for the new year like a resolution or something. At the end of the day, I have half my timeline muted anyway. I quit posting as much too. It seems like a full time job trying to keep with everything and I don’t have the energy anymore. I’ve been on that bitch since 2008, what more do you want? I’ve witnessed and was part of the rise of it. You guys can keep the demise and soon-to-come downfall of Twitter.
It was cool to follow your favorite artists on there for a while, until you realized some are annoying and downright idiots. I actually stopped fucking with some of them musically because they got on my nerves on Twitter. There comes a point in time when you get tired of getting spammed every link of a track they released, or how they RT every compliment. Better yet, what about when they talk about how they’re the best artist since Hip-Hop started. Fuck out of here. Why would anyone waste their time seeing that type of shit everyday?
That’s why I can appreciate artists who don’t indulge in the social network often. Names like Kendrick Lamar, Drake, JAY Z, Kanye West, ScHoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky come to mind.
On the off chance I still tolerate an artist’s music even after they made me want to unfollow them on Twitter, I went and kept up with them on Soundcloud. Instead of getting concert updates of where they were performing or them going off on random tangents at 8 in the morning, I stuck to just following what made me a fan in the first place, their music.
It got me thinking, though. Isn’t it better to follow these guys on SC anyway? It’s truly put up or shut up. You don’t have to hear anything but what they release in audio form. And if you get tired of them dropping “Try Me” freestyles every other day or their music falls off completely, then you can simply unfollow them and be done altogether.
The beauty of it is, you might go days or even weeks without hearing something new from them because some don’t post as frequent as others. It actually makes you miss their talent a bit, so when you load up your stream and see something new from them, you actually want to check it out. I must follow like, 150 artists, and I can tell you that some days go absolutely dry with the music. But that’s not such a bad thing. It makes you sit with it more.
For those who have more patience then I do to put up with all the spam and narcissism on Twitter, I commend you. I ran out of it months ago. Maybe that’s why I decided to start following Victoria’s Secret models and athletes more. Because they don’t tweet as much.
I will give it up to some of the rappers I do fuck with on Twitter, though. Shout out to Pharrell, Dom Kennedy, J. Cole, Freddie Gibbs, Action Bronson and Curren$y. That’s about it.
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