WHAT HAPPEN TO HIP HOP??

What happen to hip hop? Did it die? Did it change? Was it reborn? What happen? In my opinion hip hop has went from a culture to a business. It has provided the unfortunate with success. Hip hop has went from an exciting battle of words in the park to an empire that provides for thousands. Did it die? HELL NO! Is it the hip hop we once knew? Again,...HELL NO!!

Hip hop was once a culture. It was how you dress. It was the way you spoke, the way you act. It was our way of life. To me that sense of culture has become a blur. Most artist have failed to be themselves, and instead comprise who they are for a hit record. I don't agree with the theory, but I do understand it. At the end of the day this is a business. Every business thrives off one thing and one thing only, "PROFIT". Even a non-profit organization has to generate some source of income to maintain its stability. So in that aspect the theory makes perfect sense, but what does it do to the culture of hip hop? And that, well that's where the change takes place.

Before I went to LA I had an idea of what it was like. I had a visual image of New York before I placed my feet on its concrete. Years before I relocated to Atlanta I was educated on the East, West, North, and Southside of the city. I saw candy paint and knew what "drank" was in Texas without being there. From each coast, each state, these artist made you feel as if you were there living the experience. You heard the passion in their voices. And their lyrics told a story that captured your attention. Today that feeling comes every so often.

Instead, so many artist have subject themselves to chasing the next hit. We have grown to expect nothing new from the majority of today's modern hip hop. If its not how much dope or money one has, its a new dance. If its not jewelery its hoes. Or, after millions of albums sold its a story of an artist screaming how he's still in the hood doing the same thing he been doing. HOW??? WHY?? YOU RICH, WTF YOU IN THE HOOD FOR?? Now again, as much as I hate to say it,... I don't agree but I understand. This is the business of selling records.

So what happen to hip hop....it evolved. It did exactly we wanted it to do. It expanded beyond its project buildings or ghetto slums and found its seat in corporate America. It found its way to fast food commercials, stadium seats, ipods, and pop charts. It evolved into our biggest dreams, a global empire. And its only passion and drive is to continue the sell albums at any cost.

And it wasn't the east coast, southeast, west coast, mid west, or dirty south that killed hip hop. Hip hop has yet to die. Its actually alive and well. It just made a business decision. It exchanged its culture for success and wealth. The question is......was it wrong, or what is right? Or better yet,...what do you think happen to hip hop? FEEL FREE TO RESPOND.

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