“I’m hot and stuff / The sun gives me lots of love / I ain’t steppin’ on snails but I’m poppin’ slugs.”

These lyrics come straight from the “rap” artist the New Boyz and their song “Colorz.”

I used to love rap, back when it was actually about real lyricism. Now, because of the easy access of music through Internet downloads and increasing ringtone sales – which have led to music executives only extending 360 contracts to artists I am forced to change the radio station every other minute.

The genre of rap has been forever changed.

Now, instead of having the lyricism of rap, the gusto of hip-hop and the style of hipster music, rap fans are forced to hear, “Teach me how to Dougie,” by Cali Swag District. I have a question. What the hell is a “Dougie?”

Mixing of genres is not a new thing.

It’s been done before the birth of rap and will continue well into the foreseeable future. Mixing genres has brought us good music like Run DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way,” and Eminem and Dido, or Eminem and Elton John’s “Stan.”

But most of the time you get an individual artist trying to do multiple genres and it’s usually a fail.

I could list a million songs, but why should I bother when you already know who and what didn’t work out so well.

I’m just tired of these bad attempts of mixing rap with hip-hop and/or hipster music. Keep them separate, because, when put together, we get the Soulja Boy Tell ’em’s of the world. I want rappers to get back to rapping and making songs about the lyrical content.

Between the 1017 Brick Squad members, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame and OJ Da Juiceman, I haven’t heard a decent lyric yet.

“I’m boomin’, I’m bunkin’, and I’m whippin’ up da babies,” is an OJ Da Juiceman all-timer.

Waka Flocka Flame’s song “Hard in da Paint” has lyrics I couldn’t even imagine writing down. And Gucci Mane’s slurred Atlanta speech just makes his lyrics on “Wasted,” that much worse.

“Magic City Monday / Ball playin’ wasted / This one for yo’ uncle drinking Thunderbird, wasted / 12-pack wasted / I need more cases / And Gucci’s not racist all my drivers Caucasian (Gucci).”

I’m not saying the music is all bad.

The placement is way off, but it’s not all bad.

Some of it can even be entertaining at times, but for me music isn’t just about entertainment.

Music is a way of life. Music, especially rap, hip-hop and hipster music, is a form of storytelling from a cultural perspective.

If you want to come into the rap game and make entertaining, funny music, it’s possible, and I have no problem with that. Weird Al Yankovic has done it successfully and it hasn’t bothered me yet. Why? Because it’s not classified as rap.

It never once claims to be rap or degrades my culture’s storytelling aspect.

People always say rap is dying, and I feel the same. I just wish people would realize why rap is damn near dead.