these are the words of someoen who's dilluted as to what "hip hop" is, like I was just describing.

this is like saying "who are we to say what our "rights" are". When someone keeps eroding them, you lose the vivid guidelines of what your rights really are. before you know it, you have none.

here's a rule of thumb to weed out what's hip hop and what's not.


All "rappers" in the mainstream live in a world where they see, with their own two eyes, a fucked up world essentially. Yet with aaaalllll the claimed writing skills and all the power that they have as a speaker, all you hear them rap about is "look how cool I am" "look at what I own" "yo I'm in the club where the dumb bitches are". They're "rappers". They speak in rhyme over a beat and chose their subjects based on "what topics make me the most money".

they cut out aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllll the other facets of their life they see and deal with every single day in favor of what's profitable and images to support that.

Hip Hop on the other hand, gets involved in these other issues and shows you the entire picture. Hip Hop isn't scared to not act tough. Hip Hops not scared to say "I loved being a little kid, I don't like that I have to pay taxes for shit I don't agree with, I bleed, I breathe, I think, I feel, I'm alive".

Things like that which shows the humanity of a person are considered soft or taboo in "Rap". and besides...it's not as marketable as Puppet Rapper A rappin about his gold chain and flappin his arms talkin about how thugged out he is.


BTW "Hip Hop" has absolutely NOTHING to do with talent level.

I'm not saying D4L isn't Hip Hop because they're wack on the mic, what they're doing isn't Hip Hop because of the CATEGORY OF MUSIC its in. Makes no difference how they spit it.

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