Posts tagged hip hop culture

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Today, rap music is filled with messages that tell its consumers what to buy and how much one must spend in order to be cool, hip, accepted, successful, and one of the new popular go-to words, “relevant.” When Jay-Z proclaimed the only way to look cool and get women in a club was to “pop” bottles of $200 bottles of Cristal, people followed suit.

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But for now, your youthful delusions give you just enough balls to believe that you can rewrite, remix, rearrange, reshape and redefine Hip Hop, a culture in which you have nothing invested, no matter how much you’ve “studied” it or how large your vinyl collection is.

Many members of the hip hop culture who receive therapy come from poor and dangerous communities, and many of the conditions in these communities mirror conditions described in some of the rap songs with the most negative imagery.

Time and time again, the real decision makers get away with murder while rap artists are projected as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Hip Hop and young Black males.

The Rock Newman Show: A candid discussion on rap and the ever changing hip hop culture.