I used to lover H.E.R...ahead of its time

Just listening to some Common and I used to love HER and I started to think..this song came out in 1994 and it is more relevant now than ever. He talks about how the man told "her" if she gotta image and a gimmick she could make money and she did it like a dummy...this is the truth man.

around 2005-6 this is exactly what rappers did
"Now I see her in commercials, shes universal
She used to only swing it with the inner-city circle
Now she be in the burbs lickin rock and dressin hip
And on some dumb shit, when she comes to the city
Talkin about poppin glocks servin rocks and hittin switches
Now shes a gangsta rollin with gangsta bitches"

Want to know something? I think Hip Hop is going back to that innocence and fun loving nature. Before all the guns and killing people and selling drugs. And no im not talking about what you hear on the radio, forget what the mainstream media makes us listen to. I'm talking about waiting online for your favorite artist to drop his mixtape. Listening to people no one has heard of just because you LIKE their music. The era of the mixtapes is back...just digital. The little random shows in small places also contributes. I have no problem with the radio not playing my artists...keeps the exclusivity. Now they all just need to find a way to make money off of not going mainstream lol