Man fuck that shit. I think the I dea is sound, but you can't hate on the shape of hip hop as it is today because hip hop has changed. In the late eighties to early nineties, hip hop was in it's true form. The art of it was the subject of everyone's focus and the competition of it all kept people interested. But now the game has changed.

Sort of.......

You see the industry itself is powered and run by the people that listen to it. There is no such thing as the labels saying what is in and what is out. There never has been. The labels are focused on money. Everybody talking all this shit about how hip hop is all commercialized but half of you are much too young to remember whem it wasn't. The reason being for that is, when hip hop was underground, you would have to be from an urban area to see it.
There was no billboards or video's or nothing like that.

The hip hop that today's backpack rapper idolize; Afrikka Bambatta, Rakim, Russel Simmons even, all are the commercialized versions of the beggining era. The heads that are older than us know this. They took hip hop away from the underground in 1990. Hip hop is the music of the street. Period. There ain't no such thing as not being hip hop because you rap a certatin way or you like a certain group. Because you have to remeber. SOMEONE TOLD YOU THAT HIP HOP WAS PLAYED.
All this shit you cat's is poppin you read in a mag cause none of you were there to experience the early stages when the shit was real. Hip Hop is about money, it always has been. Because it ttok the money of those label execs to bring the shit to the light. And when there is money involved that is the only thing that holds weight. If it makes money, it's hip hop. Other wise they wouldn't have the cash to put hte shit on T.v. right in your home. The people with the money control HIP HOP. We conrol wat makes money.

Think about it.....