Hip-Hop isn't ours

We Define the Culture
Post 2 "Something deep and shit"

    Every conversation that I start turns into a debate which ends up as an argument. "Hip-Hop" to me has no definition, it was created by the people for the people, right? Honestly, anything you relate to in the realm of hip-hop, is hip-hop. From Eminem murdering with a Charleston Chew, to ODB liking it raw, to Immortal Technique teaching you more than your History Professor, to that weird kid who always raps about food. That's all hip-hop! To think our culture is the main one that has inner circle squabbles over insights that rarely hold weight is saddening. People still fight, actually fist fight, over bars...

     Music is a central release for our generation, past generations, and future generations. The act of externalizing inner issues is a form of therapy and music is a creative version of that said act. Imagine someone telling you that your inner haunting written down and delivered over instrumentals could grant you steam and finance, that's real. The artistry of "rapping" spans so so many forms: from chopping to slam poetry to hardcore to trap; it's all a verbal proclamation of an inner feeling or ideology. Now knowing we all have a sense of entitlement to songs, artists, genres, regions, albums, and what we think "hip-hop" is, release it. Anything in the world larger than a set group of individuals is no longer able to be owned and is an entity of it's own.

Hip hop just died this mornin'
And she's dead, she's dead

Yeah, people smoke, chill, party, and die in the same corner
Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama
Quick fast, trigger fingers, on the llama
Revenge in their eyes, Hennessy and the ganja

Word to the wise with villain state of minds
Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind
Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind
Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind

Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up
Any ghetto will tell ya', Nas helped grow us up
My face once graced promotional Sony trucks
Hundred million and billin', I helped blow them up

Gave my man my right, I could have went left
So like my girl Foxy, the kid went Def
So people, who's the top ten?
Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren?

If hip hop should die before I wake
I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day
Roll to every station, wreck the DJ...

Read more: Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead Lyrics | MetroLyrics

      

      With new times comes new struggles, and with new struggles comes new solutions. Music today has a role in the financial world, a larger role than it had when it first began in the late 70's / early 80's. At one time people thought this "hip-hop fad" would die out, yet it still rises. Watching any engine run you'll see kinks in operation over time and can help or hinder its production. Music is an engine which fuels the masses by relevance and feeling, we truly live through music, and the music lives through us. With such loud outcries of "radio" this and "garbage" that, all that is being down is verbalization and no action. The people have a larger influence on any and every platform, artist, label, festival, and organization. Instead of belittling who you don't like and voicing so much energy toward the negative benefactors streamlined 24/7, uplift the individuals truly striving to create art!

Follow the independent machine and fuel it's workers!

Everyday try and find a new artist,  new song, a new something! 

#RiseWithUs