Todays hip hop
Todays hip hopWhat is hip hop and is it influnceing listeners to condone violence and drugs.
First off to set the record straight, this is the truth nothing outside of this is true
and if you agree great if you dont agree thats your bad. But I am tired of people saying "I
listen to hip hop", stupid you cant listen to hip hop. Can you listen to the 70s??? NO you
can listen to the music of the 70s. That was a period of time, a generation, a culture. Hip
Hop is all of these things. What is hip hop? Hip Hop is everything, and nothing at the
sametime. Hip Hop is a not a genre and shouldn't be categorized as such. I see countless
search engine after search engine and big business after buisness that looks down on the
culture and sees it only as a music type. We are not that. Hip Hop is more. It is not
rap/Hip Hop. Rap is a part of hip hop. It is some of the music that comes out of hip hop.
There have been M.C.s since before hip hop. Hip Hop brought emcees that perfected this
art. Hip Hop is first people only see rap, r&b, and the other musics as Hip Hop; when
these are only part of Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a feeling. You feel it everywhere, you're at a
party and you hear that beat in your head, the tingle in your arm, and that feeling you get
to jump out and say "hey shorty whutz ya name?" thats Hip Hop.
Enough of the poetic disjustice. Hip Hop is not just a black thing. Yes I am black. Yes
blacks created Hip Hop. Yes blacks perfected Hip Hop. Yet the people who lead the way
to hip hop were not racists. And if you believe great men like Martin Luther King Jr., who
fought for equality would want his decendants fighting over an area of equality, You are
MISTAKEN! Hip Hop is large and is growing now lets prove that to the world.
Dont fight over to whom it belongs and dont let it become catogorized as just a fad of
music. Please dont let them look down on us with prejudgice as "a bunch of bad influence
drug dealers and gangsta rap wanna be's" because we are more than this. We are hip hop.
Let it just consume you.
�It's unexplanitory, how I gets [sic] lifted higher than a hundred stories; I take a
beer and I guzzle it, I'm speakin' so shut your mouth and muzzle it; smokin' el's and rollin'
reefer, I'll get you more fucked up than a can of ether; so beautiful when I light it up, and
then I cup my hands when I fire it up�. --Wax of ESMob, "Lil' Ass Playa" (Losee 1995)
Lines much like these are not uncommon in today's rap music. Many artists are
integrating the subject of drug...
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