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I don't think it is as simple as that. All hip-hop isn't bad Lupe Fiasco and Common make great music with more positive messages and i like most of the old school stuff. The problem is more that the hood lifestyle is something that a lot of black parents have brought into, which is a response to a lot of blacks becoming parents very young. It's a self-defeating cycle.
BET sure does not help matters. Honoring smut like Lil Wayne puts out is a major problem. I can't understand how such uninsipring filth gets honored so much.
Lupe Fiasco and Common are two of the very few rappers I can actually stand. I don't listen to them because I just don't like hip-hop music, but I appreciate that they at least have some matter between their ears and talk about positive themes.
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I was done with BET after they took a music video off because it was "too intelligent"....
No I'm not kidding, that was the statement from BET. A music video was taken off because it was deemed too intelligent for its viewers.
Wow. That's almost like a self-parody. Sad, sad, SAD.
theres more important things to worry about then this.
most people dont act the way others act in music videos, etc.
quit generalizing, its what people do who cant think.
and what holocaust in the black community? your seeing the largest upward shift in history with the black middle class with a spending power of a trillion.
Should will also kill violent movies and other violent music? Since it also seems to be choking people from within.
When those "art forms" become part of the identity of an entire ethnic group, then my answer will be yes. Hip-hop is, unfortunately, a major component of black culture. Ninety percent of black youths -- especially young men -- view hip-hop as a deep part of their identity. It's not just music for them.
When those "art forms" become part of the identity of an entire ethnic group, then my answer will be yes. Hip-hop is, unfortunately, a major component of black culture. Ninety percent of black youths -- especially young men -- view hip-hop as a deep part of their identity. It's not just music for them.
Them lets just kill them and not the music. The people are the problem not the music. I love hip hop son.
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Kill Hip-Hop NOW.
It would be a boring society without hip-hop in my opinion. Building walls, bridges and trains would seem bare without graffiti, turn tables would be used less frequently. Cardboard would only be used for carrying items instead of break dancing on and street poets wouldn't have a major rhythmic outlet to express how they feel about all aspects of life.
"ain't nothin like hip hop music, thats why we choose it and the world just can't refuse it"... - Masta Ace.
When rap music began it was about self expression for young black and latinos living in the inner cities. The music created was both provocative and entertaining. Some music dealt with the realities of living in the inner city streets and some of it was about fame, fortune and having fun.
Today the diversity has been diminished. A lot of that has to do with the fact that rap has become a business and not an art form. I believe the hip hop industry have seen the potential and the financial gains in the music and have created a cookie cutter format to go by. This format is to disrespect women, speak about violence and to portray the image of acting like a thug or drug dealer. For those that deviate, they are underground and don't receive the same type of exposure.
As someone said earlier in the thread a lot of hip hop today is trending toward materialism and excess. Obviously there is still gangster hip hop, but it is changing.
Nobody is twisting anyone's arm to watch BET, Bravo, Lifetime or any other network, people need to take responsibility for their own behavior.
Clearly you don't understand how the record business works. When large record conglomerates spend literally millions of dollars to promote artist of their choosing and channeled through an equally concentrated broadcast industry their out balance influence on popular culture is enormous, unless of course you believe that the multibillion dollar advertising industry is just there for looks.
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