These days if you want to make a hit,you need a great hook.So no wonder rappers such as Ja Rule and 50 started to sing on there own tracks acting as singers.Fabolous made a comment in regards to them:
“I don’t got no problems with that,” Fab explained . “Some rappers sing, some rappers rap. It’s about melody I think. Certain people used to get mad at Ja Rule for singing — everybody was mad, you may say he’s not singing on key or whatever, but all these guys are singing and using auto-tune — I’ve never had a problem with it. It’s melody, melodic, a lot of the joints that are hit records have that form to them. 50 [Cent] used to say he was singing, it was different than Ja because of what he was singing about, but it’s still him singing his own hooks. Just because it’s not an R&B guy singing, it’s still singing. It’s the same thing.” (Real Talk NY)
It is what it is.
