Today’s state of hip hop is on some other thing, (The) selected elitists who define what hip hop is don’t make hip hop. Which
some artist say it’s it telling their life story and how they grew in the ghetto, but question still remains do all these rappers had a bad child hood or they are just sending bad message to the youths. As a young individual for me hip hop is controlling rhyming and also manipulating turntables captivating the audience and utilizing a limited amount of tools , it is not the art form of graffiti, not because you write on the wall don’t mean it is hip hop. It is taking Jazz, blues, rock, soul and flipping it, flipping songs from yesterday and putting it in away that
people who wouldn’t necessary like rap could appreciate it. As in the article, the black eyed peas’ core fan base doesn’t give a kick. They don’t care if it’s mad lyrical. They just like the music, which to me is crazy because it has a lot to do with what is going on the in world of violence especially in the black community. As in the article when a lot of records is sell its not black people in the audience anymore. I say its
selling fish to people that don’t live on lakes, And these guys love fish they called it selling out or they can call it selling fish. So if it is selling why not make more positive music and keep the real hip hop, and not this gangster thing let us try to make the world a better place with music, because the real hip hop is still alive.