Is Hip Hop Actually Still Having?
Is hip-hop deteriorating to the fact it is all about image, glamour, bling and hot girls in videos. Real authentic hip-hop emerged from the streets, mainly from black neighborhoods and was aimed towards street audiences. We get a misconception that hip hop is living a lavish lifestyle instead of self-expression of the hoods it came from.
An MC is supposed to express him or herself and a lot of artists do with only the few having any hip-hop in their way of expression. To me if you are real hip-hop it comes with a purpose of lyrics from where you come from to originality and lyrical styles. This is regardless of your skin colour, you can relate to hip hop culture in one way or the other. The bottom line is that hip hop will live on if rappers think less about the money and more about their art.
Look how the beats have evolved over the years from the drums and scratching to hip-hop nowadays. What am I hearing now? There are some good producers out their like e.g. premier who keeps it to his natural style and there are some who just produce McDonald beats. By this I mean the fast ready made beats which are pushed out to make money. To me some of the beats are rushed causing it to have no backbone and making it a waste of beat.
On my last note I feel hip-hop needs to go back to its roots to get that certain feel of lyrics and beats combined to bring it back to its original style.