im sorry if i didn’t mention this before but REAL hiphop does not focus on ‘bling,’ degrading women and sex. Yes - thats where the mainstream is driving the industry today toward materialism. But they are NOT the values of the culture. Most pioneers of Hiphop would not even consider people like Soulja boy a hiphop artist - he does not stick to the boundaries of what hiphop is.
It is immoral, it promotes immorality and violence, it degrades women. I don’t want to be at a traffic light and hear about *itches *os blaring out of the car next to me. It doesn’t matter what it was or could be, I’m talking about what comes out of the radio.
well if you dont like most mainstream music(like me) - dont listen to the radio. Don’t support today’s immodest hiphop artists. listen to old school tracks that actually mean something (Naz, KRS-One etc). no one is forcing you to listen to the trashy hiphop. besides there are a few good stations which support real hiphop - usually they are the ones which are not commercial based (abc network).
How many of these so-called rappers have been gunned down? And people think that’s cool? How about the cover of Source magazine with a young African-American with the word rape on his belt buckle? Huh?
well when you think about it - in most genre’s of music there is always the good side and the bad. If you look at rock - you can get people such as Nickelback and Creed etc, which speak meaning. but then you can also get satanic rock so people like Marilyn Manson. Then you have people like Katy Perry who are pop/rock - ‘I kissed a girl and I liked it’ which also speaks rubbish. Its pretty much exactly the same in hiphop. There is always going to be a divide in any genre. All we can do is spread the values and truth of what real hiphop is. Not what has come out of it because what has come out of it is not TRUE hiphop.
Hiphop was a method for African-Americans to voice their repression back in the day. But now HipHop has been exploited and taken over by companies who are commercializing the game by degrading it.
ok, ‘Gangster rap’ was actually never apart of genre of rap, until quite recently. Gangster rap originated on the west coast while rap began in the South Bronx. It only blew up across the globe during the rise of bad boy records which now today is controlled by mainstream hiphop artists. But due to people like the NWC, they have abused this area of hiphop because most of the artists use this subgenre as an accessory and a way to make money which leads to them rapping rubbish. But gangsta rap did originate as something positive. People like Tupac did experience the gangster lifestyle - he did rap about the politics of what happened because he experienced it. He serves as one of the greatest within the sub-genre. but African Americans and Latino’s back in the day actually did use rap to express the repression.
But the question is - do you know why people think it’s cool or why people like this trashy and now-corrupt ganster rap??
its because people have become ignorant - kids born in today’s society ACCEPT that this IS hiphop. Honestly, who can blame them, because this is what they hear on the radio - they literally have been taught this from the media who ONCE did try to kill hiphop. Kids or anyone needs to go back to it’s roots and understand it for what it once was - then maybe the kids of tomorrow can pick up where the pioneers of the culture left off.
It’s dysfunctional and the world doesn’t need more dysfunctional than it’s already got. It should be banned.
I totally agree!! I think that most non-sensical hiphop should be banned. We need to resurrect true hiphop.
btw - If you want to experience true hiphop. I believe that it is no longer in the US. Countries like Ethiopia, Japan and France live out HipHop for what it really is. Also Australia has a few upcoming artists like the Hilltop Hoods, Joel Turner and the poets who use rap as a form of expression rather than aggression etc.
