Has Hip-Hop Become One Subject
Hip hop has went through many phases. It has been about partying, the struggle, living in the ghetto, uplifting people, battling and degrading people. Hip hop has never been one dimensional. As time progressed and hip hop became more mainstream it started to change from expressing yourself to catering to the mainstream audience. It has become like that presently more than ever before. In the mainstream mostly one part of hip hop is being expressed. The part that is being expressed mostly is the ghetto, and all the things you get once your out of the ghetto and have money.
This has lead to some saying that hip-hop is dead. Most notably Nas who is known as one of the greatest rappers of all time. He even went as far as to name is album which was released in late 2006 "Hip Hop is dead". Is it that hip hop really is dead? Or is it that the other forms of hip hop is dead in the mainstream. You can still find variety in hip hop it is just much harder to find. Some people do not know where to look though. I would suggest looking for underground artists or artists that are not the most popular in the mainstream. Usually these are the ones who are making different music so you can get your variety from there.
Also some people seem to think if the music is old it is not good anymore. I would highly suggest listening to "old school" artists. Examples are 2pac, Notorious B.I.G, Rakim, KRS-one, and Ice Cube. The artists I just named are al artists that many current artist claim they look up to. So if they listen to it and you like them why not listen to it yourself? This will give you a better understanding of different types of hip hop instead of what is just played in the mainstream.
No hip hop has not died, it is just harder to find variety now more than ever before. Many people watch hip hop on television and think that what they see is all hip hop has to give. If they were to look further and searched for other artists not in the mainstream they would have found that hip hop is much more than money, chains, drugs and the degradation of women. Will the mainstream start to show more than one part of hip hop? Only time will tell.
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