As a progressive hip-hop fan, I strive to create awareness and rectify some of the misconceptions that many outsiders seem to hold of the genre. Hip-hop is sometimes perceived as an irresponsible art form by those who view it through the biased lens of mainstream media. In reality, it's more like gumbo, with a mix of ingredients that includes conscious rap, poetry, storytelling, and yes, some hardcore lyricism. My goal is to showcase the various elements of this blood-baking, soul-shaking, culture-shaping sound template we've come to know as hip-hop.
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Influences
Content questions aside, rap faces the same challenge that has alarmed much of the music industry: how to adapt to the digital revolution.
"What we have to do is figure out what the new music business is," says Kevin Liles, executive vice president of Warner Music Group, home to artists such as DJ Quik, Lil Scrappy and E-40.
"There was a time when an artist like a Jay-Z or DMX or 50 Cent would sell 4 million or 5 million CDs. But there's a new climate. Artists like Young Jeezy might sell 2 million albums, but 6 million ring tones."
Recent sales by rap star Mims reflect the problems facing the industry. His single This Is Why I'm Hot has done well this year, selling 634,000 downloads and 1.9 million ring tones, the 2007 leader in ring tones so far. But the album that contains This Is Why I'm Hot hasn't been so hot, selling only 231,000 copies. Music Is My Savior is No. 100 on Billboard's albums chart 11 weeks after its release.
Rap's early stars, from Grandmaster Flash to Public Enemy and LL Cool J, "touched on humor, politics, ghetto life and realities they faced," says music consultant Tom Vickers. "Rap has gradually degenerated from an art form into a ring tone. It's a hip catchphrase or a musical riff with a short shelf life. It has a novelty element that captures the listener's imagination, but it's not a song. It won't build a career. That's why we're seeing this backlash."
To rebound, he says, "rap has to look at the bigger issues confronting society. There's only so much bling the public can take."
The upside for rap, Kitwana says, is that so much of it "remains off the mainstream radar. You never know when hip-hop is going to reinvent itself, or when something operating out on the fringe is going to emerge and become the next new thing."
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I as a fan of hip-hop believe that the reason hip-hop records are being sold less is beacuse of all this bunk songs.i dought people whant to hear about how many cars you got and how mutch buddy you can get in a week.I do think hip-hop has gone bunk before i would listen to songs like nas's one mic and eminem's mocking bird and when im gone, but know i listen to buddy buddy and grillz nobody ever liked grillz.Now i do believe that eminem and 50cent will hire up the hip-hop business only beacuse they are rappers that rap about life stile.People are inspired by this music and they choose wether they whant to do the neggative or the possitive in these songs,but the other bull es is stupid, kids whant music that they relate to not that other sucking bull .That is what i think and what i am sticking to.
Now people that say hip-hop is trash are wrong i believe that these people are ignorant .Before you judge hip-hop you should listen to the albunms .Now don't judge the words on rap records like the n word and the other curse words beacuse a lot of these words are words that are used everyday .The only difference is that they are added on music but not beacuse they are rude .It's beacuse demand these kind of words hell! a lot of these words are used by the way crackers talk don't believe me wher do you think they got the wors n-a from and the rest of the words.Now i don't agree with the n word eminem has done good with out it but then ther is times word that word is needed to send a msg and now to every trash record you heard ther is also the lesson hidden in it .Not like the records from now by ying yang twins and nelly .I am talking about the rappers with msgs to give out like Nas,Akon,Eminem,The Game, even 50cent .Msgs are the reason 2pac and B.I.G. became so big don't believe listen to ther records and then you'll know wher im getting at.
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