Everything in Life is Cyclical

It’s crazy to be of age enough to see the cyclical nature of how our society works.
To see the pendulum start to swing the other way.
I see it in so many other disciplines, but first and foremost as an artist, I see it in music.

After a 20 year rise and rule, Hip Hop loses its seat on the charts to other genres.
With how easy and accessible it is to create '“professional”, clean studio recordings and how easy it is to Autotune and Melodyne an artist, this sound has become the new normal and thus the mundane.
I think we can all see the trends of the popular music taste starting to lean towards the organic, the imperfect, and the ‘moment’, clearly demonstrated with the advent and popularity of mk.gee and Dijon.

I’d like to even say music is trending towards more substance, which is a great thing to me.
Hip Hop is definitely not going away; I mean I’ll still be here making it. But its gotta do something else. Either grow into something new or taking note of how the pendulum swings, return back to its roots of what made it so amazing in the first place.

Artists and consumers are getting fatigued with the subscription models. We can only subscribe to so many services at once. We’ve become much more discerning with our dollars and making sure our hard-earned money supports the companies and people we really believe in.

Film has become too perfect; too perfectly lit, and we already see the younger generation heavily critiquing the ‘NETFLIX’ lighting look, yearning for the composition and lighting from films of old.

AI has made it so much easier to generate ideas, music, images and video, so naturally I think we as a people will begin to appreciate and value things that preserve a human’s touch. IMO that’s why all our tastes in creatives fields are trending the other way.

We’re rapidly approaching ‘PERFECT’.
But if everything is perfect, then what’s special?

I’m sure there are many more fields where you all can see the pendulum swinging. I personally love it. It’s bringing me back to all the things I loved in my past. It’s influenced how I think about putting out my music now and what it means to be an artist. I’m returning to way to the old way I used to do a lot of things. I think this shift puts power back into the hands of the artists. The shift has taken down a lot of the smoke and mirrors and I’m here for it.
This shit feels like being a kid again.