Real Talk

Let’s take a journey back in time when you would put on your head phones, drown out the rest of the world, so that your mind could be cultivated by the words that hip hop was telling you. When you could put on that right hip hop song and relate to heart felt poetry put to the beats that had your mind in a daze. Where almost every song had a powerful message to educated and empower you to want to be something great in life. Artists that could get up, grab a microphone. and their words were 10 times louder then the music playing in the back ground. Yea those where the days! Now one must ask themselves what has happen to the hip hop music of today? Where are the messages in the music? Where are the words that empower our youth of today and tomorrow to want to be and do great things? What are the founders of hip hop thinking of the music being played today on the foundation they laid? Has hip hop become big booty chicks in thongs., flashy jewelry and tricked out cars where the message is meaningless but it gets the bills paid. Where the beats on the track captivate the audience more then the words. If hip hop back in the day was used to educate the public of things that were going on in the artist lives, their hoods, their communities then what is hip hop educating the public about today? It may leave one to ponder what kind of mark the new wave hip hop artists are leaving in today’s society . Take some time to go back and listen to the music our forefathers/mothers created, you rarely heard them degrade the opposite sex and cursing please almost unheard of and would you believe that everybody in the video had their clothes on. Today’s artist are so graphic and sexually explicit that they have to have two version of their song to assure they get radio play, and don’t even let me start on the video’s. We as a hip hop culture may want to look upon and return back to our roots and start reincorporating the ways of the people that paved the way for hip hop in the first place.

MJ
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With all the different elements of hip hop now making a more dominate stands in society whether it be through music, poetry, dancing or graffiti. There must be some sort of education that teaches the people the meaning behind all these different arts. If you take a person who knows nothing about art into a museum a picture to them is just a picture but if you provide that same person with the knowledge to know the meaning, the history and story behind the picture that person will see the same picture with a whole new concept. As with the elements of hip hop each has its own story to tell and must be taught to shed a new light on its founders, where it originated from and why all these different arts were created. As with a lot of things in the world the media has chosen to highlight all the negative factors around these arts and create a false truth of what these things stand for. One could be lead to believe, through the media that if you listen to hip hop you will commit some sort of crime or those that create graffiti are nothing but nuisances defacing the community surroundings. . On the contrary, hip hop is nothing but poetry or heart felt stories put to music and graffiti is just a form of street art. They say that “Education is the movement of darkness into light,” so we have set forth to put this movement into motion, whether it be through camps or event for the youths, or seminars for the adults. The history of hip hop needs to be taught and told in a correct manner.

MJ
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