The REAL Rap/Hip-Hop Culture

[TVD]

Right here:

http://www.zulunation.com/afrika.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap

Enjoy!

[intel]

meaning that anything not included is somehow "fake" hip hop?

and I thought the movement was anti-elitist...

[FaX]

YAWN ......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Hypertone]

I hate the term hip-hop culture. It's music. Is there some membership required to listen to rap be a part of the culture? I mean do you have to get some baggy pants and a fat gold chain? Is that what hiphop culture is? Do yo have to blaze a joint cuz Dr. Dre says its cool? Even though a few years before The Chronic he was in a group called the Cabbage Patch sporting make up and dissing people who smoke weed?

[wazun]

I hate the term hip-hop culture. It's music. Is there some membership required to listen to rap be a part of the culture? I mean do you have to get some baggy pants and a fat gold chain? Is that what hiphop culture is? Do yo have to blaze a joint cuz Dr. Dre says its cool? Even though a few years before The Chronic he was in a group called the Cabbage Patch sporting make up and dissing people who smoke weed?

There is no membership required. When people speak about hiphop culture, most of the times they mean b-boying, writing, mcing, djing, a certain dress styles and gestures.
Don't believe what you see on tv! As with everything on tv, you got to dig deeper to find out more.

[Glassback]

How many more of these posts, TVD?
You must be getting bored now, surely.

Gotta mention this though, seeing as it's there:
Thread title: The REAL Rap/Hip-Hop culture.
So, against my better judgement, I clicked the first link and the first words to jump out at me were:
UB 40.

Ya gots to larf aint ya?

[xoxos]

I hate the term hip-hop culture. It's music.

perhaps you dont understand the contemporary sociopolitical implications of individual expression in the united states....

eg. look how many pages we got of people just wanting to kick somethnig in the nuts because they can identify it as a vector.

sorry man you can call it free but 13 years of public education sponsored by pepsi isnt exactly a, umm... ermmm... how to say....

...and have you met any americans??? wonder what they spend those 13 years doing eh

[The Chase]

xoxos our education isnt sponsored by pepsi, theyre sponsored by taxes.

[Hypertone]

I hate the term hip-hop culture. It's music.

perhaps you dont understand the contemporary sociopolitical implications of individual expression in the united states....

eg. look how many pages we got of people just wanting to kick somethnig in the nuts because they can identify it as a vector.

sorry man you can call it free but 13 years of public education sponsored by pepsi isnt exactly a, umm... ermmm... how to say....

...and have you met any americans??? wonder what they spend those 13 years doing eh

I lived there for 26 years, so I met a few.

My school wasn't sponsored by Pepsi, but it was sponsored by Coke as I lived in the south.

[No name]

I recalled something that was ironic to me. The post about Dre being in a group dissing people who smoked weed. I worked with someone about 4 years ago (who wasn't a very skilled lyricist honestly), and in his verse he said "you want some weed? Na i'll pass." What a wretched bar to begin with, but a few years later I find him smoking weed, and rapping about it. I hate working with people like that, hypocrites who just write down a bunch of unconcious bullshit on paper and call it rhymes. Luckily here in Columbus it is a breeding ground for underground hip hop artists, some of which are good as hell. I worked with one artist named don furi a few years back, and I could see him getting big really quickly because he was a hell of a writer. If anyone would like to check some of his music out then go here...

www.donfuri.com

[diverdee]

Isn't Columbus where blueprint, illogic & greenhouse effect hail from?

[Stupid American Pig]

xoxos our education isnt sponsored by pepsi, theyre sponsored by taxes.

How dare you disagree with yer idol Chase...

[No name]

Isn't Columbus where blueprint, illogic & greenhouse effect hail from?

I looked up their webpage, it says so. Never heard of them myself. I'm speaking of more underground than that, that is like sewer underground. I'm talking hell underground . Bad metaphor, but anyways, i'm talking about the groups that mostly sell their mixtapes to bootleggers. That is where the gold is. It isn't recorded with high quality equipment. But the music itself is quality, it has substance.

[TVD]

I hate the term hip-hop culture. It's music. Is there some membership required to listen to rap be a part of the culture? I mean do you have to get some baggy pants and a fat gold chain? Is that what hiphop culture is? Do yo have to blaze a joint cuz Dr. Dre says its cool? Even though a few years before The Chronic he was in a group called the Cabbage Patch sporting make up and dissing people who smoke weed?

CORRECTION: Dr. Dre was in a band called The World Class Wreckin Cru.

[TVD]

How many more of these posts, TVD?
You must be getting bored now, surely.

Gotta mention this though, seeing as it's there:
Thread title: The REAL Rap/Hip-Hop culture.
So, against my better judgement, I clicked the first link and the first words to jump out at me were:
UB 40.

Ya gots to larf aint ya?

I started this thread in respond to this one:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 96&start=0

And another thing (since you're a little behind YOUR black history), Afrika Bambaataa is THE Godfather of Hip-Hop Culture. And yes, he is the man behind such Hip-Hop (and electronic) classics as Planet Rock & Looking For The Perfect Beat.