fake hip hop: anyone who claims to be about the culture, origins, and history of our music, but aren't. They profit by telling you stories to make you think they're genuine in order to add credibility to their own name and dollars to their own pocket.

merk not for nada but I think at this point in the game one would have to wipe their slate clean as to what they see "hiphop" as seeing that the media sources that told you what "hip hop" is the same corporations raking in billions off of the image they created which they want you to believe is real. This reminds me of the book Simulacra and Simulacrum which basically states that the simulation has replaced the original. Synthetic has taken the role that Authentic once had. Perfect analogy for Rap and Hip Hop.

Unless someone witnessed the rise and peak of hip hop, the concious awareness of the era hip hop was born and thrived in, the drive of the hip hop artist for expression of a black voice in music, you'd lose the connection without this prior knowledge. Some things are intangible and can't be expressed with words.

Imagine for a minute that you became sick and a robot was created in your exact likeness to exist in your place. It has polished renditions of mannerisms that people found favorable in you, it looks like you, talks feels and smells like you, hell, it even says it is you! but it lacks the texture of personality that you have. the soul deep within. when it smiles...you look at it and you know it's not real. designed to look real, but deep down you know you're peering into the surface of a machine. It would be hard for someone that knew the original you to have that same love for a mechanized replica of you, and even harder to explain the difference to someone who never knew you.

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