Is mainstream Hip Hop Hurting community?

I say that Hip Hop is projecting a negative image to young children. Glorifying drugs, alcohol, sex, and greed. Should the community support these artists?

there are Bloods and Crips all over the city. with bullshit fake "bling bling" in there ears, they are just young cats that have no clue about thu Hip Hop @ all. they don't even know who Chuck D is lol but they love 50 and the game and all that sellout shit that is not what hip hop is about.


when the fuck was hip hop pro slavery!!!!

If you look in the hip hop mags nowadays all there is, is Iced out punks that don't say shit thats relevant to what going on in the world, just reppin there block or hood
do they know about the brutal atrocities committed by the Sierra Leone rebel forces (Revolutionary United Front) and the international diamond cartels?
or do people just not care

fuckin house niggas


for more info on Sierra Leone http://www.guerrillafunk.com/video/bling.html


"if you whant to keep it real you got to make it real 1st"

peace

meh. this doesn't really apply to us really does it? to us, it is just shit hip hop and most of the time it just rolls over me personally. It might only be an issue in the states because kids will steal and sell drugs to get the said "bling". but what about all the kids who use music as a vehicle to get out? ive seen kids want it bad enough to make it their life as they realise it's their only ticket to get outta there. you know, ups and downs for everything.

plus, thinking everything you see influences you is naive. i don't go stabbing because i see it on tv

Black people in America today are confused IMO.

In the 70's the question was 'What's goin' on?'(Marvin Gaye) and 'How you gonna make a black nation rise?'...

Today you can find them 'In tha Club' bottle fulla bub'...

thats mainstream Hip Hop and only like
%5 of hip hop makes it on to the radio

all I'm sayin is its the hip hop that pants the worst
picture of "blacks" that gets air play.

and I think it's more than just "thats whats hot right now" imo

itjust piss me off [end rant]

put it this way.....the kids from South AK have more attitude than some of the cats I met in Harlem. Angry over what...the line at McDonalds?

I think you better but it another way
I don't get what you are trying to say.

ps.Don't evey body have an attitude? [good, bad, or what ever]

pps. have you realy bean to Harlem?

the negitive hip hop attitude is. the, if you fuck wit me im gonna pop a cap in yo ass sucks. def gets way to americanized for me.

there is big djs mc's and producers round that have way more of a positive attitude IMO

like dangermouse for instance


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio1/aod.shtml?radio1/dangermouse

the producer behind crazy, this has more of a positive vibe and will be a big tune IMO

the shit!

I think you are confusing Rap and Hip/hop. Just because people like 50 cent and Game "rap" doesn't mean they represent Hip Hop as a culture.

"rap is something we do, hip hop is something that we live" - KRS-One

The term Hip Hop was used to describe a culture of which there are four main catergories "em-cing, DJ-ing, grafitti and b-boying (more commonly known as brakdancing)". The term was suppose to have orignated from DJ Afrika Bambaataa around the early 70's.

So while "rap" might be projecting a negative image, of drugs and violence, I must disagree that Hip Hop culture does, or is doing the same.

yeah Four I went there last September and I'm going back to NY in three weeks.

uh this could get exhausting on here...It's like this...from my experience you see people around in AK that possess a "ghetto" attitude (or call it wateva) when the majority don't live in the ghettos they don't know what it means to live in slums, or wake up hungry (especially with the dole system). There's tons of reasons to be angry don't get me wrong...I guess what I'm trying to say is in Harlem I was shocked. I didn't feel threatened walking down the street, like some kid with a chip on his shoulder screaming "fuck waht" was gonna come out and shoot my ass. Whereas I wouldn't walk through Manurewa (for instance) by myself. and why? Because in NZ it's all attitude on the streets, more so than what I experienced at times overseas. And that's my point. In the areas where these inequalities created our loved art -the people who live in brooklyn, bronx, harlem, Queens understand the roots of hip hop and why it existed. A lot of people don't know what's up here they just think being hard up and blinged out is cool. It's probably why many a rap artist who has come over here think some cats in the AK scene are retarded.

On the other hand -there are a lot of people here who do understand the culture and respect it to death. and at the same time we have inequalities in NZ which has brought out our own hip hop culture which is all good -serve me up a slice of the pie-NZ rap music is getting tasty!

Does that make sense Four ? Livz is just passing through with a random comment cause I got fueled with the "young cats that have no clue about hip hop at all" hah now I look like an intense blogger

yes I think that you some up the point of my post well

I get pissed off at the little shits "reppin there
hood" because they think it's Hip hop to do so.

They don't know the difference between Hip hip,Rap and
RnB, shit most ppl think RnB is Hip Hop now-a-days.

And I think "acting Black" or "Hip Hop" is One of the
most Racist things you can do. without even realizing it.

Why?

By acting "Black" they usually portray the most
negative things there are about "Black people". The
bad grammar (uneducated), ghetto actions and what
not. Basically making a statement that, that is the
way THEY see "Black people".

I think people should not "Act" at all.

some of them so called mainstream artists....(like the whole of the atlanta scene) are making the freshest hiphop to come out in years.
beats before rhymes!...im also not entirely sure that some people take themselves as seriously as the tone of this post.
the world is fucked up..but if someone wants to rhyme about cars & bling thats there right!...the most revolutionary thing that hiphop gave the so called black people is money and a voice.

(like the whole of the atlanta scene)

I like Outkast,Cee Lo and the Goodie Mob.

is th@ who you are talking about.

Word!

Not to mention the 'hip hop' dancing on the TV show 'So you think you can Dance'.

Sorry to sound like a bitch but one of my pet hates is names in lower case.

If you watch c4 all artist names are in lower case and it realy pisses me off.

(end rant)

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