Let's keep it 100: Hip-Hop is not a culture.

[Mandarin Duck]

For real

If it were all the artist y'all hate would not be allowed to have a career due to them not respecting Hip-Hop as a culture. It's a genre of music and that's it.

And I blame the old heads. They dropped the ball on this shyt. If they knew their self worth and didn't allow Cacs to completely take their shyt over they would be heads of their own record labels completely separate from the majors.

We love complaining about the new generation of shyt without holding any of the older generations responsible for what lead to it being what it is today.

Who are the gatekeepers?

Whoever is the loudest at the moment?
Joe Budden?
Funk Flex?

 

[blizzard man]

the thing about culture, theres more than just the music aspect to it.

hip hop aint as much of a 'culture' as it was previously, but i would still classify it as such.

sounds like your problem is with the music, and this thread gonna end up with yall arguing about cacs and c00ns like the wale thread did, so

 

[tuckgod]

Hip Hop is most definitely a culture.

Sounds like you're speaking specifically on rap music which is now a part of pop culture.

 

[SirBiatch]

fax

It was definitely a culture but got sold out and watered down into a 'genre'. simple.

 

[blizzard man]

who the gatekeepers gonna be for the young heads?

and once yall are the old generation, itll be fun to see what fukkery the new young heads blame on yall

hope you learned from our mistakes lil nikkas

 

[Mandarin Duck]

Hip Hop is most definitely a culture.

Sounds like you're speaking specifically on rap music which is now a part of pop culture.

What other aspects of the culture of hip-hop still hold any significance today?

 

[tuckgod]

What other aspects of the culture of hip-hop still hold any significance today?

I guess it really depends on perspective.

I was listening to Combat Jack's interview with Mark Anthony Neal and 9th Wonder on the way to work this morning and felt the spirit of the culture moving all in that room.

I'm a '78 baby, so I've literally grown with the culture my whole life.

The way I communicate, the way I dress, the stories that have shaped my life and worldview, my vices of choice, it's all hip hop.

I think sometimes we get caught up in the whole "5 elements" thing, and forget that hip hop for a lot of us is a way of life.

 

[SunZoo]

RAP MUSIC is not Hip Hop.

Hip Hop is a culture...a container for the elements/arts associated it with it. What you are talking about is the genre of RAP MUSIC...the industry has confused you nikkas and actually made you believe that the music they pimp is the culture...it is NOT

If RAP MUSIC is indeed "Hip Hop" the only way you can really participate in it is to either buy the music or create the music for sale for the music industry. This is why there are so many weak ass "rappers" that would otherwise be engaging the culture elsewhere or not even fukking with it at all. This is why so many kids feel left out and have to get excited about stupid shyt like streaming numbers and "lists" because they have been marginalized, mentally out of the actual culture. They only participate with what they think is Hip Hop through commerce.

There are heads THRIVING without RAP MUSIC or any kind of music for that matter. You've been sold this illusion because rap music is much easier to exploit and reproduce than philosophy, dance or any of the other arts.

 

[SunZoo]

Oh and negged.

 

[Off the Onion]

For real

If it were all the artist y'all hate would not be allowed to have a career due to them not respecting Hip-Hop as a culture. It's a genre of music and that's it.

And I blame the old heads. They dropped the ball on this shyt. If they knew their self worth and didn't allow Cacs to completely take their shyt over they would be heads of their own record labels completely separate from the majors.

We love complaining about the new generation of shyt without holding any of the older generations responsible for what lead to it being what it is today.

Who are the gatekeepers?

Whoever is the loudest at the moment?
Joe Budden?
Funk Flex?

TRUTH.

 

[SunZoo]

fax

It was definitely a culture but got sold out and watered down into a 'genre'. simple.

Nah, know nothings bought the bullshyt lie and kept feeding it to other people as the truth. Blind nikkas leading blind nikkas.

It's battle rappers now doing performances on stage with NO fukking music at all that are making as much if not more than these flavor of the month ass 360 deal punching bags. Stop lying to the kids....they are looking for a way into the culture that doesn't require them to prop up an industry that looks at them as disposable.

 

[SunZoo]

hip hop aint as much of a 'culture' as it was previously, but i would still classify it as such.

Nah it still is, but if all you know is what the music industry feeds you, you'd think that "the culture" is all but gone. If it ain't on Itunes or on some type of TELL-LIE-VISION it doesn't exist to these kids.

 

[African Peasant]

For real

If it were all the artist y'all hate would not be allowed to have a career due to them not respecting Hip-Hop as a culture. It's a genre of music and that's it.

And I blame the old heads. They dropped the ball on this shyt. If they knew their self worth and didn't allow Cacs to completely take their shyt over they would be heads of their own record labels completely separate from the majors.

We love complaining about the new generation of shyt without holding any of the older generations responsible for what lead to it being what it is today.

Who are the gatekeepers?

Whoever is the loudest at the moment?
Joe Budden?
Funk Flex?

I'm not even sure whether it's still a musical genre. It's just a label under which any black/urban non singer musician fall under.

You can musically define rai, congolese rumba or salsa. At this point, Hip-Hop is anything, so it's nothing.

 

[SunZoo]

I'm not even sure whether it's still a musical genre. It's just a label under which any black/urban non singer musician fall under.

You can musically define rai, congolese rumba or salsa. At this point, Hip-Hop is anything, so it's nothing.

Drake: Why are they giving me rap awards?

 

[Ol’Otis]

If it were all the artist y'all hate would not be allowed to have a career due to them not respecting Hip-Hop as a culture. It's a genre of music and that's it.

And I blame the old heads. They dropped the ball on this shyt. If they knew their self worth and didn't allow Cacs to completely take their shyt over they would be heads of their own record labels completely separate from the majors.

We love complaining about the new generation of shyt without holding any of the older generations responsible for what lead to it being what it is today.

we don't own anything in hip hop




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