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Hip Hop is never dead. The Mind of an Emcee is dying. Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by MISSracquel, Canada Mar 29, 2007
Media   Opinions

  

Turn on your T.V. to MTV or BET or any other music channel, and you will see rappers bopping their head to their beat talking about cars, money and women. Nowadays Hip Hop lacks substance, you hear the same recycled material from a different artist.

This year, Nas, a long time rapper, released an album called, "Hip Hop is Dead". Where he is basically speaking against the mainstream hip-hop and how it's given Hip-Hop a bad name.

Hip-Hop has changed...not necessarily for the better. Once upon a time, when Hip-Hop was introduced, people spoke about fighting the authorities when times aren't fair, where women weren't displayed as sex objects, where women actually spoke out alongside men and was shown and a male-female dominated industry for a time.

But now, this is an industry clearly dominated by men. And now they sing about violence, sex, cars and whacked-up dances.

And don't get me started on the degradation on women. Who dress up in barely anything gyrating to a lame beat. It's common and uncommon at the same time.

What happened to this genre? Money? Greed? Power?
It wasn't important if you were on the Billboard top 10 back then. It was solely about the MUSIC and the people you reached out to.

Many people, such as myself, stick to listening to old school hip hop, artists like Immortal Technique,Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were among the countless influential people in hip hop and spoke out to the people. Not the big time execs who eventually screw these artists over.

Although I still listen to some of today's hip-hop, I stray from the artists who totally go for what I'm against. Hip-Hop isn't bling bling or cars and vast amounts of money. Hip Hop is a expression people to use to get through every day life, and it's sad to see that people actually fail to grasp such concepts. Hip Hop is long from dead, when you have artists such as Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D., John Legend, Common, MusiqSoulchid. You still have the hope that hip hop can never die.

But if people think that they can wake up and make a insanely whack track about "rollin on dubz". Then the mind of an emcee is quickly deteriorating.








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