Hip Hop is. . .

[EvanCPC]

…not what you think.
…art.
…culture.
…intelligent.
…empowering.
…not “Bling Bling.”
…a way of life.
…expression.
…color bilnd.
…misunderstood.
…overlooked.
…more than “bitches, hoe’s, gats, forties and blunts.”
…underappreciated.
…pigeon-holed.
…progressive.
…evocative.
…all-encompassing.


Ev

 

[alexb]

You forgot "shit".

 

[JamesH]

Hip Hop is... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCAKE

 

[colorfast]

You forgot "shit".

this

 

[GrindHard]

Rap > Hip Hop

 

[colorfast]

Everything else > Hip Hop > Rap

 

[GrindHard]

Everything else > Hip Hop > Rap

Bull shit

 

[productionhead]

People fear fear man.

 

[colorfast]

This is going to be a heated thread I can feel it already

 

[clashctyrokr]

Rap > Hip Hop

Rap = Hip Hop in most cases

For the tard that said rap is shit:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gWD4g63RNI"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9nXD8HjIA"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u3JSEqNtlg"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

'nuff said.

 

[Infinite Keith]

Everything else > Hip Hop > Rap

I approve.

Bull shit

I disapprove.

 

[CCLIND]

overrated..

I agree Nas is an exception, Bone hasn't been shit since thier debut album w Eazy-E (first of the month, really?). I don't know that last one, but while the rhymes were good the whole poor oppressed me shit is old. Yeah he so oppressed he has a record deal and making bank, boo-hoo.

 

[clashctyrokr]

overrated..

I agree Nas is an exception, Bone hasn't been shit since thier debut album w Eazy-E (first of the month, really?). I don't know that last one, but while the rhymes were good the whole poor oppressed me shit is old. Yeah he so oppressed he has a record deal and making bank, boo-hoo.

Immortal Technique isn't exactly rich. He's probably making a decent living now, but he's really not about the money.

 

[CCLIND]

True. I get that, like I said don't know about the dude. My point was if you have 100G's in you mouth and your 83 Cutlass is sitting on 20 grand in wheels I don't wanna hear you whine about shit. Like Evan said in the other thread most current hip-hop and rap is shit, with few exceptions.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

Dead.



But back in the late 80's it was some powerful shit. Public Enemy, EPMD, KRS, Rakim etc. Then MTV came along and turned it into mindless drivel. There are a few exceptions - Wu-Tang, Tribe Called Quest, Nas etc through the 90's and not much after that. Now they just wanna drive rented cars, wear rented jewelry and put rented bitches in the same retarded ass video over and over again.

 

[RBseatown]

Dead.



But back in the late 80's it was some powerful shit. Public Enemy, EPMD, KRS, Rakim etc. Then MTV came along and turned it into mindless drivel. There are a few exceptions - Wu-Tang, Tribe Called Quest, Nas etc through the 90's and not much after that. Now they just wanna drive rented cars, wear rented jewelry and put rented bitches in the same retarded ass video over and over again.

That sub-genre of hip hop still exists and is great. Just not in the mainstream anymore.

 

[kimboslice]

...pretty fucking sad right now...

 

[brianpaxton]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-Yf2LCXnw"]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]



I'm not particularly a hip hop fan, but this kid warmed up the crowd in Europe before a James Brown concert I attended a few years ago, and he rocked it.

He's also from Ptown, so I was an immediate fan.

 

[b_sun]

Nice lisp.