Now then Leeds, I’m DJ Wax On AKA Waxtradamus, bringing you some knowledge and insight into the world of DJing and funky beats.  For the new year, there’s a new title, but more of the same old bulls**t.  Today I’m assuming the role of the David Ike, and Look at my predictions for 2009:

The Beatles blitz the charts
Following the huge problems with getting The Beatles’ back catalogue on the digital market, it looks like EMI and itunes may be able to finally agree on this some time in the year, and from what I’ve read it would seem their discography was all remastered a couple of years ago.  So I could imagine, if it’s all released, that the Beatles could end up owning the top 10 singles chart for a week.

Soulja Boy pisses off more and more people
Soulja Boy’s most recent hip hop faux pas was to accuse veteran rapper (and writer of one of the best hip hop albums ever)Nas of killing hip hop.  In a video posted online, Soulja Boy claims that Nas killed hip hop by penning the song/phrase ”Hip Hop is Dead”, his logic being that people heard it and therefore believed it.  He also reasons that Lil Wayne is the best rapper in the world, because he went round saying he was.  Come on!  Anyway, I’d put money on Soulja delivering far more of these pearls of wisdom in the near future.

Rap Music gets turned into a tribute to late 90’s Cher
First T. Pain. Well, not exactly first.  Then Lil Wayne.  Then Kanye.  Now P Diddy.  It seems like there’s a real shift towards using hard autotune techniques (a la Cher – Believe), and given the big names who have been picking up on this and running with it, it’s only a matter of time until a huge amount of people ranging from the top dogs, to the muppet wannnabe’s who fabricate entertainment companies and spend too much time adding myspace friends and not enough making decent music, will be using this on nearly every tune they carelessly knock out.  

X Factor takes over my life again
I know it’s all bollocks, and it’s totally sellout, blah blah blah, but X Factor got me bad this year.  For some reason, and I don’t exactly know why.  Maybe it’s the fact that other people I know crept out from the woodwork and admitted they’re into it, maybe it’s the fact that some of the people on it were actually talented.  Maybe I’m just weak.  But whatever the reason, I was hooked.  And I envisage the same thing happening in 2009.

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