Hip Hop is Like Anything Goes as Long as it Sold

I got tired of hearing people say wack rappers were real Hip Hop or the new era of Hip Hop, as if their music is the evolution of it, when it's clearly not.


Just because a dance is a dance and Hip Hop cultivates dance, like beats to rhymes, and spinning the tables to making beats, graffiti, etc...

...DOES NOT MEAN that everybody that picks up a mic is hot. A lot of so-call rappers out there are wack!!! and that's why those who try to preserve what REAL HIP HOP is don't like to associate those artists as being Hip Hop artists. We're not jealous of success in Hip Hop, either we love what you do or we don't. Nobody'smad that your song is served up with a dance. Back in the day we had the snake, the whop, the Pee-Wee Herman (turned into a rap dance record), and so many other joints. Nobody hates a kid in Hip Hop because his song has a dance.

Though, when the boy can barely rhyme to a beat, sings unbearably off key as a hook, and his beats are wack, then the dance ain't gonna save it, not in it's musicial form. It's wack for the most part. If that can be real hip hop, then anything and everything is.

If it uses a drum machine ...it's hip hop?
If it's associated with a dance ...it's hip hop?
If it tries to rhyme to a beat ...it's hip hop?
If it sings is it R&B???

NO!

...I'm getting real sick of posers who try to adopt the culture like Madonna with an African baby, feeling like this gives them some authenticity as to what Hip Hop is and what those who are Hip Hop should accept as Hip Hop, saying "I bought it/adopted it", "I did the research", "This was that and that is this"

...For the record: My point of view isn't meant to be racist, and I know it sounds like it is, but I loved the Beastie Boys. They were Hip Hop to me. Vanilla Ice WASN't. I don't care if he sold or none of that. KRS-1 was The Best at one point in the time-line. PM DAWN - 0 - They sucked

However, Hip Hop had soul, and the more I come to understand what it was that I loved about Hip Hop, I know it had nothing to do with murder, pimpin, hoes, bling, or wanna be ass rappers with a new dance.

Yes it was about dance, and it was about rap lyrics with the most phenominal deliveries, and the beats were #1, but the way commercialism has success structured in what they might call a successful song, album, or even a classic is full of politics advertised through gimmicks and gestures, which is a whole bunch of bull sh** solidified by statistics/sales.

I love Hip Hop for what Hip Hop used to mean to me.

That love is what becomes future, leaving the rest behind to be forgotten and destroyed.

If those that I respected as being my love of Hip Hop, who started Hip Hop in my life ....if they're gonna let the bull sh** fly and sell their soul to the politics, then what I do needs a new name that isn't Hip Hop to be served on a new platform that isn't industrial.

...and WTF is Hip-Pop ...that's self-degrading in anybody who accepts that badge, cause basically you're just saying you aren't good enough to be Hip Hop, so you'll settle for less as long it emulates what sells more.