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What do you all consider real hip hop?
I am sick of the bull shit. It's time to revolutionize hip hop. Hip Hop needs the real headz to sell some real music and get all this bullshit off the radio.
Who is wit me?
Everytime this comes up, I can't really say anymore. Even the dudes claiming they're making real hip hop sometimes don't even do it. I feel like real hip hop is becoming a saying more than a act of doing with some of these dudes. Feel me?
Real hip hop is a lifestyle were you live it and every aspect of it is in your life. If you know the elements of hip hop and you live and love it then that is real. When you say your real hip hop and all you rap about is bitches, hoes and bling, well none of those are elements of hip hop. It isn't even related. It is just rap. Rappers are not nessecarily hip hop and you can be hip hop without rapping or breaking or tagging or djing. It is amatter of knowing hip hop and the true heads I know haven't heard power 98 in years.
Its all about perception. what is real hiphop? in a sense, its whatever YOU say it is, after all it is your world, know what im sayin? if some people over there say they know what real hiphop is, and if a whole country says that they know what real hiphop is..which one is right? is there a wrong? and who's to say? This is how i think..
quotable: "Who writes the song?.... I write the song muthafucka!" -Canibus
MAN LISTEN, BEFORE CATS CAN DO REAL HIP-HOP THEY GOTTA MAKE REAL MOVES
AND BE WHO THEY REALLY ARE AND JUST DO THEM.WHICH MEANS IF YOU A BULLSHIT DUDE
AND HANG WIT A BUNCH OF MUTHAF#CKERS WHO AINT DOIN SHIT IN LIFE THAN HIP-HOP SHOULD BE THE LAST THING ON YA PLATE.THE GAME IS FUCKED RIGHT NOW CAUSE THE CORPORATE POWERS UNITE AND MAKE MOVES TOGETHER,WHILE CATS IS TALKIN BOUT EAST COAST,WEST COAST,DOWN SOUTH....ETC
DUDES NEED TO WAKE UP AND PUT THE FUCKIN EGOS ASIDE CAUSE THIS SHIT GOES MAD DEEPER THAN HIP-HOP "ITS A CULTURE WAR" AND WE TAKIN CRAZY CASUALITIES. AS FAR AS REAL HIP-HOP "ITS EVERYTHING YOU EAT,DRINK,BREATH AND LIVE.BY THE WAY THE NAME IS "FLAV" BIRTHED IN 72".........10,000
i dont even consider what i hear on the radio to be hip hop, period, let alone REAL hip hop. As Binary Star said in Honest Expression, 'you got hip-hop and you got hip-POP - the top 40 version of hip-hop.'
I'm with you...The shit on radio and music videos now days is totally hio pop, not hip hop. Half of those cats don't have ANY lyrical skills, just some rich dudes in suits who probably don't even listen to rap telling them how great they are...A few songs that I would call hip pop are:
Lip Gloss
Walk it Out
Chicken Noodle Soup
And ANYTHING made by Fergie. All of her songs are dumb as hell....
For real. it isn't about who does what how and better. Hip hop is one thing that is for everyone. Anyone from any culture can come to hip hop and find themselves if it is in them. No discrimination. We need to unite as a powerful movement not out to speak only on bling and bitches, but to spread the word of how we live hip hop here and how others live it around the world. How we can share what is real that we love with everyone. I want everyone to know the hip hop I love and how they can get ahold of the music I listen to. I want to hip those to the realness. Give them something worthy to listen to and love. Make this commercial movement obsolete because it is just USING a name while destroying what is behind it.
I hate to say this… But, there is no such thing as “real” Hip Hop music… What you consider “real”, may not be “real” to somebody else. It is all Hip Hop music… Even shit we consider wack, is Hip Hop… Hip Hop needs Ying Yang, Jezzy, Rich Boy, and Diddy; just as much as it needs Monch, Mos, Common, and Doom… It is all Hip Hop… We just need more balance in what we hear and see as Hip Hop music…
Thank you Kas. Hip-Hop is an experience, It is impossible for one person to be able to relate to every variant of it. Come on people, I said this in a earlier thread, this is detrimental to Hip-Hop period. We need to embrace all types instead of shunning it out blindly because we ditest it. Within hip-hop you have the denomination of Rap, within rap you have different interpretations and inturn different narratives painted by each artist. If every artist were synonomous in content imaging how colorless, monotonous, and plain hip hop would be. Now personally I dont listen to artist that have the sound such as 50 cent, Jeezy, or D4L to name a few however I apreciate the variation they bring within the artform its self, the fact of the matter is someone does. "There are rappers who specialize in weaving their words into stories that inform. And some only care about getting the party started and where's the harm in that?" really.... There are nameless variants of rap, and if it dosent fit into a personal mold does that justify you ousting it the hip hop community?
Answer: NO, it is completely subjective. Trip-Hop, Golden Age (which consisted of late 80's to early 90's), Bass, G-Funk, Gangsta, Crunk, Alternative etc.. are all different forms... people its time to end this counterproductive arguement. Now to the question at hand what is hip-hop to me... hip-hop is my personal REMINISCES
Peace
