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If it Ain't Hip Hop... FUCK IT!!


June 18, 2007 | Tags: Common, Hip Hop is dead, KRS-ONE, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Hip Hop DX
I've been seeing a disturbing trend on this site (and other music sites as well) as of late and it needs to stop. For the record, there are days when I read the comments and feel like the majority of y'all that read really "get it."

And other times... not so much.

Unfortunately, the latter wins out more often than not.

What am I talking about you ask? It's very simple. 9/10, a story is posted about politics or *gasps* an R&B artist and some wise ass will fix his pre-pubescent fingers to type the following:

"What the fuck does this have to do with Hip Hop?!?"
"This is a music web site, we don't want to hear about ______"
"This isn't Hip Hop!"

I hate to ride the "Hip Hop is dead" Benz into blogger sunset, but if you want proof that the culture as we know it is dying, you need look no further than the above comments. I'll go out on a limb here and say that nobody that has typed one of the aforementioned has reached the age of majority. Last week, I blogged about what killed Hip Hop, and while I made some valid points, the thing that's REALLY killing Hip Hop is the lack of knowledge in the [mainstream] game today. To be fair, there are the Mos Def's, Talib's, Common's, Immortal Techniques etc. dropping science. But to be real, none of them are blaring from the average fan's ipod.

For those of you frontin, size 40 pants wearing on a 30 inch waist, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL white tee on a 5'2 frame, "I eat Hip Hop for breakfast, lunch, the afternoon snack AND dinner" Hip Hop fans whose only consumption of Hip Hop is via Viacom outlets and local radio, please, for the love of all that's good... OPEN A BOOK (but not until you finish reading the stuff on DX).

Hip Hop is so much more than music and some of y'all have either forgotten that, or been so brain washed by corporate America that you never knew life outside of 16 bars existed.

Knowing what's going on at Capital Hill AND how it effects YOU... THAT's Hip Hop
Empowering yourself and your community (whether you're in the hood or the  burbs)... THAT'S Hip Hop
an R&B singer over a break beat... yeah, THAT's Hip Hop too.

See, Hip Hop is more than music, and to limit Hip Hop to the art of 16 bars is demeaning to the culture. I hate most of the rap music that's on radio today... but I'm still Hip Hop.

Look beyond the surface before labeling something "not Hip Hop." If we are "the Hip Hop generation," everything we do, see, say and are involved in...

well, THAT'S Hip Hop (word to KRS-ONE)






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