- Did Rap Murder the Hip Hop Movement?
Everyone assumes that hot beats makes up for soft, weak, and/or straight bullshit lyrics. They are sadly mistaken. This only furthers the opinion that rap is hip hop’s downfall. ‘Real Hip Hop’ is a term used in the Industry by those who grew up with or have a strong love for the music that actually said something and served a fucking purpose. Topics were different. While love, sex, and money were spoken about, they were not the focus of the music and were talked about for a reason other than shock.
The artists were considered “underground;” off the radar of the mainstream charts; too “rough” for Snow society to stomach; and too off the charts to comprehend unless you’ve lived it or had the capability to sympathize with the scenarios. They [artists] were real storytellers. They had the ability to make their audience laugh and think all at once. When mainstream media proceeded to unbuckle its belt and lower its pants to rap the culture over and over, the artist and guards of the craft shifted things to more conscious thinking and less laughter in order to alert a culture on what was happening. But what happened then?
Where did those voices go? Were they all silenced or simply lowered to help the make ability to Coon easier? This is just the first in a series that will explore what has happened to Real Hip Hop and is Rap its murderer or just the scapegoat for a bigger project.
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Check out http://cacoteoradio.com. Found that site from @rapmonster on Twitter and it supposedly has good underground rap and reggae music. Still checking it out. I agree with you. The surface/popular rap is straight trash.
Hip hop is pretty much dead. Or maybe I need to find the revived underground movement. Cause what’s on the surface is garbage.