once agian rap is not hip hop and hip hop is not rap. To even say that you're spreading mis-information like woah.

You may not know this but "Hip Hop" existed long before "rap", before there was even a term called "rap" or people called "rappers". The music they created was rhymed over a beat with a heavy bassline. It became the voice of the urbanite and grew into a unique form of music that reached out from the hoods and ghettos.

Once Big Business discovered that HipHop is profitable, they invented "Rap". Rap is a form of music that uses elements of Hip Hop (like heavy basslines and spoken in rhyme) to promote an image that you buy into, mostly for escapism. To "take your mind off of reality and let you live the fantasy" of the cars, houses, jewelry, women, clubs, money and everything else the urbanite dreamed of. What ever it was, the rapper would claim to embody and he'd paint the picture of a person who's life is "larger than life". You got a young inner city kid without a father figure - this rappers false reality makes him that boys hood-hero. The "rapper" was a living product you used to escape your reality. A human drug. Big business's organic source of revenue.

Fastforward to today where "rappers" have pushed hip hop out of its position, they're all backed by Big Business in the form of "major labels" and they're still selling the image of escapism. This time around, they're not just a living product, they're franchizes; clothes, shoes, t-shirts, cologne, perfume, and anything else they can stick their likeness on and sell.

It's been this way since the late 80's, so sorry to say but anyone who didn't have the opportunity to listen to hip hop back then have been pumped full of "rap" and it's actors who want to validate the product...errr......"prove their real"... by saying any and everything to make you believe it, like they're about hip hop and that they're really street and lived a tough life and all this other stuff. It's not real. all manufactured.


PS, though bigge is far form the only one, even Bigge's mom said he lied in Juicy saying he grew up poor. He lied about his entire history. They were middle class and lived in a 2 bedroom house, not a 'one bedroom shack'. She says "look at how heavy bigge was, he was always a chubby kid almost all his life. you don't get that chubby by not being well-fed".

similar type story for Ice Cube, Onyx, and whole host of other "rappers".

Just part of the image.

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