Underground Hip Hop music & Vonnegut...

Regularly enjoying at least a little bit of hip hop music on daily basis, I have realized that many of the artist's underground songs are much better than their 'top' hit songs. The style of music, the beat, and mostly the lyrics. Lyrics that consists of what goes on the artist's mind, what goes on in their life, their daily experiences and it's just simply fascinating. But when you listen to their hit songs, it's about what the public, the society wants so they can get famous, so everyone can enjoy their music. It seems really fake to me, and people really need to listen to the artist's actual and real music, not their newest album, which are songs and lyrics which attribute to sex, money and partying. Anyways, thinking about this reminded me of writers, Vonnegut especially. Maybe some authors do the same thing like some of the artists? Publishing something for the public and the society, but not for themselves. Getting all their verb tenses right, following every rule for grammar, punctuality and blah blah blah... so it looks good and everyone will like it, and it will impress them. In my opinion, I think Vonnegut wrote the novel for himself, and to the people that he dedicated his novel to. I really don't think that he wrote it to 'impress' couple of judges or to make money. I think he wrote it to gather all his memory, to look back at his life and experiences and feel what he felt in those moments and he simply just conveyed all of it in a novel. Clearly he wasn't trying to impress anyone, like his text is so plain and simple but it's so complicated and even tricky. I'm very glad that there are authors like Vonnegut, a true writer like Vonnegut who's not afraid to publish something that people might not like, but publishing it because it's real experiences that he desires to share with the public. It's like a hip hop artist, or any artists creating their 'underground' music/songs, and publishing it and not being afraid of people's judgement and whether the song would make them some money or not. True artists are the artists that compose their own music and publishing it because they want to share what their love and life is like. Sharing everything that creates them, everything they've been through to become who they are now, anything that makes them feel alive, and sharing their music because they put their soul into it. Yes, I agree, I bet it can be very tempting to publish a song that people will like because of the lyrics because then many people will like the song and you will make some money. But really... someone that can write beautiful poetry and put it into a song, then suddenly transforming their whole outlook on music and turning those beautiful poetic words and phrases to: let's get money, let's get pussy, let's all get wasted, we so dope... it just kills me. What happened to old school hip hop? What happened to people being real? Why does everyone have to be so alike from each other now? Why can't we appreciate that we are all different individuals with all different kinds of talents? Anyways, what I am trying to say is that Vonnegut's novel slaughterhouse 5 is very real. He expressed and shared many of his personal insights and imaginations. I believe that his intentions was to share a few moments that he's been through, to show you his side or a soldier's view of war.