Hip-Hop isn't just Black Culture created for Blacks only. Is it?

God-I_Am_Ether

DAMITT
11:49AM Posts: 2,346
The_Maryvale_Joker wrote: »
NWA, Public Enemy, Snoop Dogg, Dre, Nas, Wu Tang, etc have concerts full of white people. Shit is ridiculous

shit is sad when niggas rather go to a Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka, Plies, Lil Boosie, Drake concert than go to the above mentioned concerts

Well Got Dam

alot of niggas rather listen to simpleton lyrics than some thought provoking mind stimulating shit, weak minded ass niggas........

havin niggas like Jay'z say yall some dumb ass niggas by sayin he dumb downs his music.......

mafucka thats a got damn insult to nigga like me



not to many niggas is really Hip Hop these days, aint none of these mainstream artist are probably ever have done b-boying, graffitiing, mcing, djing with cuts and break beats and shit like that.....which is the Hip Hop culture


these niggas just rapping which at least to me is different than mcing

NoCompetition

Yall stay whinin bout successful rappers. Well whatever. Obviously yall hatin aint stoppin nothin since the ones yall hate on be the most successful.

32DaysOfInfiniti

Hip Hop is for anyone thats been through the struggle

God-I_Am_Ether

32DaysOfInfiniti
1:24AM Posts: 545
Hip Hop is for anyone thats been through the struggle

Yeah like Will Smith, Ice Cube, and many other rappers that came from the "struggle".

Black_Samson

Elvis.
Close thread.

nujerz84

Technically speaking its a sub culture...of the wider Black and Latino Experience/Culture...

Lil Loca

It's not created specifically for Black and Latinos anymore with mainstream labels marketing it towards white suburban kids, but it IS a culture that was created AND sustained by Blacks and Latinos. Some white people tend to feel entitled and think that hip hop is something that was always universal. It's like STFU. That's like straight people saying that Drag Queen/King culture is universal. It's not, so shut that shit up.

I Self Lord & Master

waterproof wrote: »

I aint evening going to read that shit because it's laughable.

Look here hip-hop was coming from a long time it's a art and tool that was a gift that took all the elements of African Drums, African spoken word, Hebrew Slave Negro Spiritual, Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Funk, Rock n Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Reggae. Spoke in code and our lanaguage like our ancestors did on those plantation, took the ciphers from doo-woop groups in the late 50's on the corner, writing in heiroglyphic.

hip-hop is the last musical artform of the black culture and was for us to teach and speak to each other from our rhymes, slang and writing on the walls, b-boying took elements from african dance like our african brothers in brazil done with Capoeira.

It started on the sands of land of the mother
Word to mother king like my father
My style survived slave ships whips and chains hardships
Still through all this the praise roll off my lips
Bring your guns chains and tone force your religion
On me cut my hair the vibes still exist
To destroy the molesters of my heritage
What they conceal the drums reveal......my loyal lineage

man, listen!




Shit, the fact that even folks have the nerve to come out of their face like this sheds positive light on Hip Hop. (even though its on some backhand sheisty shit)

HIP HOP bridged more cultural gaps and gave the world a medium to speak to each other through and relate to each other through. Gave people a common ground MORSEO than education, religion, television and media has been able to

Black and latinos of all nationalities from the streets gave this world this fucking gift. WE did that. Fuck their props....pat urself on the back for doing what others COULDNT do without even trying to do

32DaysOfInfiniti

over_kill wrote: »

32DaysOfInfiniti
1:24AM Posts: 545
Hip Hop is for anyone thats been through the struggle

Yeah like Will Smith, Ice Cube, and many other rappers that came from the "struggle".

Its ignorant to say anyone hasnt been through "struggle" unless you lived everyday with them

Dr.Chemix

If it started from a group of people, its their culture, period. White folks didn't start cyphers. White folks didn't start block parties with a DJ. What them uppity ass white folks who don't understand the culture say about their daughters and sons banging hip hop? "Billy is acting like them niggers".

But pure hip hop has grown...like Mos Def said on his track "Fear Not of Man"

"People be asking me all the time, Mos, what's gonna happen with hip hop? I tell em, you know what's gonna happen with hip hop? Whatever is happening with us. If we smoked out, hip hip is gonna be smoked out. If we doing alright, hip hip is gonna be doing alright"

Now IMO, rap shit is for everyone. Rap shit. Hip Hop...thats whole another plane. Not everybody can do, listen, or should do hip hop. It takes a mindset...a cultural mindset that just can't be put on like a fitted cap.