Hip Hop is dead?

Hip Hop ain’t just music, it’s a culture… -unknown-

The culture of Hip Hop has evolved from an in your face revolutionary culture into a very materialistic symbolic proclamation; described and labeled as “rap.” Even with all the changes in Hip Hop, there is no way that this culture can die. Many of today’s uneducated Hiphoppers value this degrading and comical music as reality or even so far as to say they are ‘keeping it real’. Living off the music handed to them by big business instead of listening to what real music is, and then demanding it. What many of these new artist and listeners don’t understand is that the entire culture was kidnapped, raped, shaped, redefined, and packaged as being just Hip Hop/R&B rap music. Hip Hop is bigger than this; it’s a movement, culture that used to make real Hiphoppers think, innovate, express, reveal, dance, rebel and even start a new creation in an urban environment.

Presently, Hip Hop is just considered music, which does not represent the true heads, believers, and founders around the world. So called rappers today fit a carefully plan corporate commercial formula, a musical form of blaxploitation, that molds raw artists into either a gangster, player, hustler, pimp, killer, drug dealer, or a comedian. This is the outcome of major corporate labels recruiting only rappers that want a fast dollar by degrading the message of Hip Hop culture rather then creating a new birth of revolutionary music. Many artist and labels of the current state let their preconceived notions; rather then their actual experience influence their musical expression of Hip Hop. This has allowed for all types of carelessness in the creative process of the music. The fault lies with everyone but mainly with corporate businesses’ lack of respect for Hip Hop culture which in turn exploits the music for monetary gain by destroying the underground subculture, while promising the artist few pennies and the promise of fame. These prejudices have been responsible for the lack of respect and knowledge of the history that the new fans of Hip Hop seem to display.

In the beginning, Hip Hop started as a means to take pieces and parts from the mainstream society and infuse these ideas with original fresh urban experiences, claming the finish product: “Hip Hop.” “Fresh”. What happen to this ideology? When a dirty sample could get the whole house breaking, when Tim boots where in one color and where the unofficial street army boot, when brick walls where covered and amplified by graffiti, or even when the parents LP player transformed into turntables. Presently, Hip Hop could be consider just a Gangster’s Paradise where the body counts, the booty shots, the cars, the rims, the outfits, the jewelry, and ignorance is more important then the responsibility of being a Hip Hop artist with an audience and what could be accomplished with such power…

…if Hip Hop is dead why didn’t anybody tell me -exodus rex

Written By Exodus@undevco.com