No one killed Hip Hop
Rap music or Hip Hop when first came out and started getting popular, everyone thought it was just something the kids are liking at the present and it’s going to go away. This was because it was the first time that the vocals were basically rhymes and it was like someone was just reading them out. I understand why people could think it was going to be just a fad.
This ’struggle’ gave birth to groups like N.W.A and Bodycount who later the media started calling ‘gangster rappers’. They tried to stop gangsta rap but as I mentioned in my other articles, music can’t be stopped. It spread like wildfire in the American youth and surprisingly in the ‘white’ suburbs and soon became the thing for all kids in the U.S.A. You didn’t have to be black to relate to the oppression going on in the ghettos because the struggle was painted so perfectly with words in most of these songs that everyone could feel it.
No one could put a lid on this genre of music anymore. When rock music first came out, it was labeled the devil’s music and soon every kid wanted to hear it and have a great time with it. Same kind of scrutiny and negativity was thrown at Hip hop and rap music. Some of these rappers were actually called criminals and law breakers in the open and the media just didn’t care. The more you bashed rap music, the more money the media made.
Now it seemed like rap music was reaching it’s peak and along came two of the greatest artist in the history of this genre. Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G also known as Christopher Wallace. These guys took the entire genre and turned it upside down. Each one bringing in their own different style. Tupac alone has influenced more people through his music than any rapper around and the Notorious B.I.G just had an incredible natural flow that took the entire industry by storm.
Regardless of what anyone says, I feel like rap music is just evolving. Hip hop is dead considering when it comes to the lyrics, but I won’t really say that. I think it’s evolving and their is going to be another artist or a few of them who are going to take hip hop to another level. This is my prediction and my promise.
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