So, a friend of mine was conducting a questionnaire on hip-hop, video's in particular. Wyclef Jean says "black on black crime needs to stop, y'all can't blame it on hip-hop."
I on the other hand, was thinking about this thing, and i reckon that this form of music came from something much purer than what it is today. Think back to the Sugar Hill Gang, Run DMC, De la Soul etc. The mantle has not, in my opinion, been carried very faithfully; ask anyone who knows little about Rap music what images it provokes in their minds. This is not a thouroughly tried and tested statement, but, the likely answer is: 'vulgarity, profanity, concetedness' etc.
All this was inspired by my friend, and Kanye's new video 'Diamonds are forever' (a must see master-peice) which brings hip-hop back to being a healing, insightive music.
"i know my streets i know my sounds, i know my beats how i get down; i take my steps in leaps and bounds...what's realer than hip-hop?!" ( 'Royce da 5'9")
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i know i mispelt 'piece', Leave me it happens!!
I'm coming via joelbloggs (which is finished by the way..anyway). I can understand why people are losing interest in hip hop because it is beginning to all sound the same. I'm not a big fan personally, but 10 years ago it was different- we were chillin' to Summertime and LL Cool J classics. Am I supposed to be just as intersted in Lil'John and his crew? It is a fall in the quality of music that hip hop is suffering from.
hip hop has just become a platform where the anybody who's pretty enough can make a quick buck.
so much of it is 'airbrushed' to look better than it actually is -but all that glitters isn't gold, it was the blemishes that made hip hop so good in the old days. very few tracks now are actually any good.
the same thing happened to pop, and will probably happen to every music genre that becomes popular- the market becomes too saturated as business execs try to bleed as much money out of it while its the in thing, thereby filling it with a lot of crap wannabes with no talent. its just hip hop's turn.
I'm with the toffee smeller. Ironically, it is the pure art forms that do not shy away from representing what is real and imperfect about humanity. Nowadays, we can't give the 'average-looking' person a chance. Everybody's gotta look like Beyonce or Usher (who isn't even that good-looking in my opinion but anyway) to get a record deal.
'Speech is my hammer
bang the world into shape
now let it fall. (HUH!!)'- (MIghty) Mos Def
HOW IT SHOULD BE!
by the way u still havent changed 'seaching' to 'searching'...now come on thts just lazy! and Hank...totally agree...usher is NOT good looking!!
Hip-pop this word doesnt mean anything to me right now coz i changed my view after watching Pastor Chris Lewis video on The Thruth Behind Hip-pop..........it was some scary stuff....this mighty man of God was given a vision way bak in 1990 abt this sort of religion called hip-pop... he calls it the way the devil cud only get too young blak people was thru the muzic....
Because of it's origin and what Hip Hop originally represented in it's earlier stages, we cannot embrace it as Christians. Their can be no Holy Hip Hoppers or no Christian Hip Hop because the culture cannot lend itself to the direction of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we do have very powerful Christian rap groups that preach the word of God through rap, but we must not get confused and call what they are doing Hip Hop. You have to understand that God does not embrace anything that has a corrupt origin. The very word "HipHop" was used by Afrikka Bambatta, the pioneer of the culture and professed Zulu Nation god, to describe the parties that he was hosting in clubs across New York in the early 70's. Since then, he has developed a religion that rested upon the Hip Hop culture. The culture is not from God, therefore, it should not be used by the people of God to describe anything that is of God!
People, please understand that Hip Hop is a way of governing your life. Therefore, it cannot be exploited as a Christian way of living. We understand that KRS-ONE and Afrika Bambaata have used the term Hip Hop to describe emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing, and other forms of entertainment, but Hip Hop is also, to them, a religion and a way of worshipping ourselves instead of the Lord Jesus Christ. How can we as believers hold on to this culture when it's origin is rooted in witchcraft and voodoo? How can we call ourselves Holy Hip Hoppers when this move of the enemy is influential enough to persuade Christians to protect it and defend it as a culture that should be embraced by the church even though it's founders don't embrace Jesus Christ? God forbid. My people, search the word of God for yourself. 2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things
his a new man.....
Even though all music has a strong element of influence, Hip Hop has an entire culture backing it. It's not just music, it's a way of life for the black community as well as white america. It has influenced our youth in a way that no other tool of the enemy could have. How else can you get young people to be proud of ignorance? How else can you make the decline of morality a trend among our youth? How else could you make a nation of young and old people accept drug users, murderers, rapists, satanists, and people that defile our childrens mentality, as a "trend" and applaud it as an artform? How else could you cause young people to act out pornographic sexual acts with no boundaries? How else can you glamorize degrading things like: Getting arrested, going to jail, having multiple sex partners and kids out of wedlock, smoking weed, murder, crime and other things that was once considered vile by anyones standards.
Isa 5:20 Says Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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