Everyone has their dream or life goals. Something I feel that needs to be addressed is the idea that if you hit a goal you can ‘become somebody’. You know someone voiced a frustration at a goal they wanted and said maybe I won’t ’become somebody’. It isn’t to be taken literally and this person was talking about becoming somebody in a certain industry.

I still feel a bit prickly about the idea of becoming somebody in different public industries, I guess fame is the goal. I mean you can become famous but nobody really ever knows you anyway. You have the marketing cycles and little pearls of wisdom that people can latch onto as they throw their attention at a symbol of fame, talent, wealth or supposed free spirit.

It is like a photograph, a moment in time, a surface, a capture that is supposed to have stopped everything to give you a glimpse. There is an ethical position at times yet it doesn’t help solve problems. If you capture the beating of people or someone’s final moments they still got beaten and the victims were still victims. Look at the atrocities committed and captured in gruesome detail.

The cycle of killing didn’t just start recently, it is constant and seems endless. This is what gets me though, people are focused on becoming somebody. Human beings are never allowed to be somebody by default, there are platitudes and gestures but without the institutions the framework isn’t there. Economies, armies, the whole thing lurching to dominance only to devalue the human body and mind.

Maybe with the sheer amount of humanity we can’t all be valued but with Hip Hop for example people created their own self creation. They have now made their own institutions and you can only hope that it doesn’t disengage from the people. Say with Schooly D he had a style nobody had ever heard before, he made himself known. 

Yet to become someone it was an underground phenomenon, there were no guarantees Schooly D for example would make a living from what he did. Yet it wasn’t the fame because a lot of people still don’t know anything much about Hip Hop. It was the self creation and you or I can’t do what he did. I am an artist for example and I make no money from what I do.

I create because it is a drive, a therapeutic interest, fame is meaningless and I feel that being motivated (tagging or whatever you do) means you are living the life you want. A life that is outside of the limitations that exist all around you. I am not saying just create any old garbage but if you need anything it is integrity and an application of your will. 

Integrity is always the most important element, it is the natural state of a person that can get crushed quite easily by trying to ‘become somebody’. You can never escape from who you are and maybe you are the somebody you always wanted to be. The somebody you fought for, yet that should have been you all along and after the struggle you found out that you were that person all along.