2006-06-14 02:44:46 · 11 answers · asked by Sun A 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
This is a message for everybody, I have a question for you!
Hip hop is totally now about money, image, and all things negative. f'*** the tracks that people have mentioned earlier, yeah they are cool and represent 'true hip hop' but I have a question for you. I am a collector of nineties hip hop and the best of it tends to deal with black issues, i.e black on black crime. Black prisoners doing time for crimes they didn't commit, due to racial profiling and 'wrongplace- wrongtime syndrome' Drugs and prostitution rife in black areas, theories of drugs injected into black areas by non-blacks, the inability to be able to hail a taxi as a black man for fear of getting attacked, the list goes on...Thats hip hop, there was a message, a viewpoint, a meaning, and most of all it dealt with black issues.
Remember de la soul? Around the era of ostentatious rappers eric b and rakim and big daddy kane three 18 year old mc's wrote 'me myself and I' and the message was, 'you are black but you don't have to play up to the stereotype', you don't have to drive flashy cars, have big muscles, impressive dance moves, big jewellry, just be yourself, you are unique. Now take into account what I have just said and ask yourself where is this hip hop? Would the music industry allow black people to talk about controversial issues, telling black people that they don't have to be 'pimps' or 'gangsters' or just general stereotypes? Would they allow 50 cent to say f*** cars, guns, jewellry, get an education instead black people, be yourself and be proud of who you are! Would you dance to that? Heard of brand nubian or K.M.D? didn't think so!
2006-06-15 00:05:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yeah hip hop has evolved to a money making industry. Before hip hop went mainstream it was about making good music, doing something constructive to stay out of trouble, or getting a message across. Now it's a means to an end. It's like make money, have fun, and milk the industry for what I can while this hip hop thing is still hot. But, there are still some artists like Common, Nas, and Run DMC that still know what hip hop is about.
2006-06-14 03:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by diamarie05 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hip hop artists definitely do it for the money and fame. The lyrics are atrocious, always cursin out women, talking about killing people, dealing drugs, smoking weed, expensive cars and bling. What happened to the deep rooted and meaningful lyrics like old school artists such as Run DMC, The Fearless Four, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, etc. Those groups rhymed about the world's issues and problems, like Run DMC's "wake up". Nowadays, it's just crazy.
It seems like anyone can make it as a hip hop artist. That industry should be ashamed of putting crap like that out there.
2006-06-14 03:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lately I have (I have not whatched it for a long time) put on MTV and I saw some hip-hop.
My impression is that a lot of men (it seems to be a man thing to me) do it for fun. Just like every woman would like to have a try at being her favourite movie-star or pop-singer.
For the rest I do not think I hear much hip-hop. I do not know his music (but he is very good-looking - so I am sure he will sell well)
That is the reality.
2006-06-14 02:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by veronica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of it is, yeah. 50 cent, Lloyd Banks, G-Unit, all that crap... it's commercial and it's boring!!!
Real hip-hop for me is that underground, grimey, sick type stuff that is too dark for the radio. Generally, if commercial radio won't play it, that means it good!
Check out stuff like 'Dopesick' by Goretex, 'Puppet Master' by Cypress Hill and Dr Dre, 'Full Clip' by Gangstarr... now thats REAL hip-hop.
2006-06-14 02:58:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All music that makes money, is about making money. Thinking other wise is like believing that WalMart really wants give away all their inventory to the needy.
2006-06-14 02:56:10 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Red 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 cent - in England he would be called 27p. ;o)
'Hip-hop music' is an oxymoron!
2006-06-14 03:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it rilly seems dat way but i have heard couple of them just do it 4 da music and rnt dat rich
2006-06-14 02:48:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's all about the money now, all new music is. No one in "pop" music gives a **** if they're music is good.
2006-06-14 02:48:29 · answer #9 · answered by shakezilla86 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's only about the money. Children are young and don't know better. Thugs, violence and cursing should not be welcome in music appreciation.
2006-06-14 02:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by scottsorgent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋