hiphop underground

Emcees used to make their records with passion, with their lyrics based on their life experiences, emotions and aspirations. Now most of Hip-Hop like this remains underground, but if it’s not like that, can we still call it hip-hop? The majority of mainstream (commercialized) Hip-Hop lyricists use their fortunes and girls to create records. I think this is a decaying state to the Hip-Hop culture. Hamelock Nelson states that, “The quality of rap music has suffered a serious condition of commercialism” (1). Basically, the key to get into main

Hip-Hop fans and lyricists who think they know all about hip-hop and think hip-hop is all about the commercialized derivative is caught up in pop culture. Should we even call this music hip-hop? I think we should call this hip-pop. If they stop worrying about putting cash, cars, and girls on a record, they maybe could be true hip-hop lyricists. People, who call themselves’ true hip-hop fans from listening to straight up mainstream rap, can’t call them selves’ hip-hop fans. They probably don’t even know hip-hop makes up not only rap, but also the other three elements, which if it wasn’t even there, hip-hop wouldn’t exist today. So everyone get their minds straight and get educated on the true meaning of hip-hop. Don’t go around and think you’re the man knowing all those lyrics to Chingy’s song that’s about a girl doing it “Right thur” (Chingy). Get the feel for true hip-hop, it doesn’t have to be only underground, but they’re a several emcees out there in the mainstream that know how to keep it real. If you know who they are, you know what true hip-hop is.

People today need to understand and get educated about the true meaning of hip-hop music. They need to know how deep hip-hop culture goes. It wasn’t only rapping; it was the break dancing and dj-ing that made hip-hop. Hip-Hop is not rap; rap is a part of hip-hop. Many people, and emcees themselves have a misconception of these terms. Emcees aren’t true hip-hop artists if they don’t know the true meaning of hip-hop. Emcees back then features b-boys and life scenes in their videos. Now most emcees feature half naked girls and cars. I think it makes hip-hop look so bad. That’s why there is so much controversy on rap music. Parents don’t want their kids to listen to rap music because of what commercialized hip-hop has done. They don’t want their kids doing what the rappers do on videos. That’s why I don’t like mainstream much. It puts bad stereotypes on hip-hop and the music has no meaning to it.

I hate the fact that most people today have this fictitious stereotype on hip-hop music. Because of commercialized hip-hop and society, when people think of hip-hop, they think of cars, cash, girls, clothes, and jewelry. Because of this stereotype and the commercialism of hip-hop, not many people feel the same love for hip-hop and not many people want to listen to it. People are tired of seeing the same flashy videos and hearing about getting this girl in bed. I know I’m tired of seeing and hearing this gibberish. Variations of it is tolerable, but I don’t prefer listening to it. The only thing I can do with it is dance to

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