Someone With the Same Opinion

As I was searching online I found someone that wrote for the washington post that shared the same feelings as me that hip hop has changed. One part that effected me a lot I will put on here:

"At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, rappers Snoop Doggy Dog and 50 Cent embellished their performance of the song "P.I.M.P." by featuring black women on leashes being walked onstage. This past August, MTV2 aired an episode of the cartoon "Where My Dogs At," which had Snoop again leading two black bikini-clad women around on leashes. They squatted on their hands and knees, scratched themselves and defecated."

The woman that wrote this article loved hip hop since "Rappers Delight", the first rap song that was recorded and released and went big. Then the music over time started to changed into something different and she does not let her daughter even listen to it.

Hip Hop different then Rap?

Hip Hop, to answer Saras question, is different then rap. Rap is more focused on the rhyming and music part. Where as hip hop incorporates more pop and dancing as well as mixing. There are a lot more elements to hip hop then rap. It's more like rap is one of the elements of hip hop and sub-catagory, not its on catagory. In the book Hip Hop Culture statistics show that that largest population of fans are suburban white youth, who seem to be interested in a different type of culture then they live in. Its interesting to see how people are attracted to the exploiting in the hip hop world.

Early Hip Hop

In the book Hip Hop Culture that I am reading, there is a section called "Should Hip Hop Be Cencored". There is a part in that section that gets the point across that I have been trying to say this whole time. It says:

" During the early period, it was the rawness and urgent appeal for equality that captured the hearts and minds of both artists and fans, revealing to the world the next tool of global revolution as countries across the globe imitated, adopted, and appropriated Hip Hop as a method and manner of communication against local, regional, national, and global oppression."

Also in this part of the book that explores both old school and new school hip hop, it is saying that during the early stages of hip hop most of the elements of the music were based on the inner-city life. That would include songs written about gangs and violence, narcotics and alcohol, crime and poverty, and hustling. This showed that their music had actual substance and their words were not written for them. Most of the Hip Hop on the radio these days have worthless lyrics that are just brainwashing its audience.