Na'imah Tajah Mitchell

For some time now, I’ve been hearing about the 4-piece hiphop/screamo band Brokencyde, and I never really paid any attention to them. I’ve been reading all over the internet how people are dubbing them the worst band ever because they mix screams and hip-hop together.

I don’t know why, but before hearing any of their music, I just thought they were on the lines of Dashboard Confessional. a band that I hate by the way. So I never bothered looking them up.

So, I fathered up the nerve to go check out their music. My first thoughts on the were, well they ‘re just your typical scene kids producing crunk music. Then I looked up their pictures. Colorful hair, colorful clothes, colorful-colors; they immediately reminded me of 2 bands- Dot Dot Curve definitely, and then Cash Cash. I couldn’t bear watching their video for “Freaxxx” however. So it took me a minute to think, “Why does everybody hate them so much?” And I read a couple of the rants. I know that you can’t base your opinion of someone upon what someone else says, but I read these because I wanted to see exactly why.

Edit: Okay, all I can say about these cats are that personally, I don’t like them. And that only holds true because I watched one of their videos, the name of which I forgotten and never bothered to know, on Music Choice. It seems as if nearly ANY band these days can create any type of terrible music that the teenage population will love and their popularity skyrockets. I never understood this.