QUOTE(BrandonSaunders @ Jul 10 2006, 12:14 AM)
I wish I was around for the beginning of this debate, considering I am the intelligent advocator of hiphop when it comes to musically biased (and ignorant) forums such as Createblog. Nonetheless, I feel as though HipHop music, as a genre, is targeted, and exploited, and seems to be used as a tool to stagnate the acceptance of African American culture. Its ridiculous that the Ying Yang Twinz get more radio airplay than The Roots, but, thats the way the music business works; exploitation = revenue.
Well, you have to remember, even more, that the best of MC's are never heard by most people, nor played outside of California/New York Radio, in this country.
I'm talking about the 427's, Immortal Techniques, etc. (Who speak on everything from politics to existentialist themes) There's of course the roots of hip-hop (it's not rap, despite what your TV tells you, and you blindly agree with, ignorantly), artists like KRS-One, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, etc., who had something valuable to say, but alas, like the psuedo punk-rcok, hip-hop has become something used to push products for capitalism, in a political climate where the politicians in charge of much of this pretend to hate in, order to make it seem "bad" ($$$).
Kinda lame how so many people talk about how Hip-Hop is so negative, or pointless, when much of ACTUAL hip-hop is WAY more on the reality tip than the guitar driven emotional garbage that's "in style."
Hip-Hop isn't dead, and still concerns the evolution of the 5 elements (although said evolution has stagnated for many years, it seems to be evolving on a few of the fronts in the past few years).
If you want hip-hop, go to the underground. If you haven't gone there, don't talk about Hip-Hop. You know nothing about it. I notice most of you in this thread speak in a very immature high-school holier than thou manner on this, and should stop it.
If you remember nothing else, remember that what you see now is "rap." This isn't the same as "hip-hop," and therefore, isn't the real. It isn't directly descended or created by the pioneers, and hardly has anything to do with them, control-wise, or anything else.
It's a lot like the modern punk movement, if you can understand where I'm coming from.
A terrible cheap version of what it originally was, and what it was meant to be, thanks to record companies, capitalism, and dumb teens with too much cash.
And of course, "mainstream rap" has been a plague on black society for the past...I'd say 18 years, but I'll get into that on another post entitled "why N.W.A. blew it for
African-American people everywhere".
It's true....
damn i felt like sov
