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Hip Hop IsAmerica. Hip Hop / Rap as the music is called in essence focuses on
the depression and good feelings and times of urban America. ...
Submitted by luvtheweights on November 30, 2007
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Hip Hop / Rap as the music is called in essence focuses on the depression and good feelings and times of urban America. It also engages racism, sexism, violence, materialism, and aggression that blacks have towards each other and other races. Hip Hop now in it’s present form is a business an commercial industry that makes billions of dollars every day and employs convicts, drug dealers, even children. Although it’s America’s most profitable profession it is still controlled by white America as a whole. The network Black Entertainment Television (BET) once owned by Bob Johnson a black, was bought out and now owned by Viacom a white majority owned company.
Depression in music is always something you will hear in any type of music, in Hip Hop though it sends a different message to the ears. “F*** The Police”, “187 on an undercover cop” speak for themselves as to show blacks feelings towards police oppression. On the other hand hooks like “I need love”, and “When I Cry We Cry Together” show how artists starve for affection from the opposite sex. Some artists put their hearts in their music and some just say what others write. Any way it is put on wax shows that these artists have troubles in their lives that they talk about in their music.
Racism in this music is expressed these days in raps but it showed at its peak in the 90’s with such groups like N.W.A. (niggas with attitudes) and the former Death Row Records. The topic in my opinion will never be addressed at its full potential because of the market these records actually sell in and because of who really owns these rappers, white executives in the record industry. To go as far and make the statement that most of the Hip Hop records that are bought are purchased by Whites is not an understatement at all. With all of the download outlets and the quality of music these days blacks in my opinion do not have the need to actually go out and purchase these records.
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