CONCLUSION

In conclusion, I have come to an understanding of hip hop culture. I would probably thank the CNN special the most for what I learned. My thesis was asking the question if old school was about what life really was and was for helping make a statement for the black community and if it transitioned into something of no substance and just in it for the money, demolishing the respect built up by the old school rappers. Or if it just depended on the hip hop artist. I have come to find that it has changed over the years but only because there is a new genre of hip hop called Gangster Rap. That is where all of the hip hop artists with the meaningless degrading lyrics come from. There are still rappers now that do not fall under the gangster rap catagory and still write and rap with meaning.