Wazeer Talks About Modesty in Music: Blurred Lines Tell Lies...

Wazeer, 20

Wazeer is a 20 year old independent hip hop artist, producer, and cinematographer. He is a Houston native, but has a sound and message in his music that stretches far beyond this region. He began his rap career in the winter of 2011 but has been a musician since 2004 at the age of 11 as a trumpet player and continued until he graduated high school. He now attends HCC (Houston Community College) majoring in Audio Engineering in order to fine tune his craft and build his various businesses. His goal is to redirect hip hop back to its origin of serving the people and true expression and to take the genre to a place the world has never seen. He is a man of the people and a man of god.

During Wazeer's interview I asked him the following questions, with the music of today being absent of anything positive how do you keep your music modest aka conscious and positive? What do you believe the difference is between your mindset and the mindset of other rappers? What is the inspiration or purpose behind your music? What tips can you give others that are or would like to be in the same field as you?

"When I'm coming up with song concepts I'm driven by human experience and raw emotion. All I want to do is create a clear image in the listeners mind that shows my perspective of the world around me; exposing the injustice, lies, deceit, and give clarity on who they are and what they are capable of. For instance, in my song entitled "G Like Me" I emphasize the fact that I am a God, capable of creating the reality I please, but it is intended for the listener to sing along in the self empowering chant. I do believe that there are artist who share my mindset but there are also a multitude of rappers, if we can even call them that, that are only interested in gaining capitol at the expense of their audience and the art form as a whole. Songs are now taking on the form of jingles promoting materialism, criminal behavior, dehumanization and degrading of our women, and alcoholism and drug use. We must take back our genre from our enemy, whose current control makes profit off of it, and return Hip Hop/Rap to its natural form of expression and feed the souls of the people. This is my mission and I won't quit until we are successful.

My advice to anyone aspiring to be a rapper or obtain any occupation in the Hip Hop industry is to decide what you want to do, find out how to do it, hone in on your craft and never take a day off. Some forward progress has to be a daily goal. Always speak the truth in your lyrics and remove fear completely and your success is inevitable."

Thank you Wazeer for taking time out of your day to share your experiences with us and allowing me to feature you on my blog! I pray Allah (God) continues to bless you in your endeavors!

Blurred Lines Tell Lies!

So, we have been talking about the importance of being modest, which is the consciousness of the mind and the body. But let's go in to more detail about why immodesty is so popular in this world.

Everything you see and everything you hear has some kind of sexual suggestions, no matter if it's blatant or subtle it's there. There are examples of this everywhere, such as suggestive images in commercials, billboards, music, etc. What does a half naked woman have to do with perfume? Sex continues to be the focus of mainstream advertising not only for females but for males as well, so much so that the general population truly believes that this is normal. When someone speaks against this behavior they are seen as being "old fashioned" or anti such and such. From the media to the music industry they all have their hand in the pot. Advertising plays a significant economic role in the music business, it's how the industry sells their products and/or artists. The suggestive lyrics of songs promotes the sexual behavior we see on television. What we hear on the radio is reinforced in what we watch. In these music videos today, you often see artists dancing provocatively and on top of that most of the time it has nothing to do with the actual song. The music industry has created this requirement for females to be sexual. It reinforces in both the artists' and the fans' heads that in order to succeed in the music industry one must rely almost entirely on their sexuality. They try to blur the lines to skew our perception of what their goal is; to make indecency fair-seeming.

There’s a reason the quality of mainstream music has decreased significantly since the early 1900s. The more so-called musicians continue to use sex to promote their work, the more it changes our focus from their music to sex. It's not the quality of the song that attracts us to buy their music it's the videos and the erotic images pasted over it and woven into it that will sell it for them. We went from Run DMC to Waka Flocka, Lauren Hill to Nicki Minaj, and Marvin Gaye to Ginuwine. Do we really want our daughter's or son's and little brother's or sister's to be corrupted by people like Miley Cyrus and her video “Wrecking Ball”? Or Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” music video? Both of which blatantly demeans and portrays women as sexual objects. There's a saying that goes, what you surround yourself with you become. We have to strive to overcome, not succumb.

I encourage everyone, both men and women, to give their opinion on this topic and the previous topics. Just post a comment right below this article! Please keep your comments respectable and refrain from using any profanity. Thank you!