... 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 mainstream Hip- ... University of California states, "I applaud Nas for his courage to speak truth to power and highlight the corruption inherent in radio and corporate co-option of the culture he loves so passionately"(1). Other emcees like "Mos Def", "Common", "Talib Kweli", "Pharoahe ...

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Tupac was a very controversial figure in the early ninety's of American pop culture. People believed many different things about him. Some thought he was a gangster, a bad influence on society. Some believed that he was a sort of prophet, an activist in the fight for ... ...

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