Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop When you hear the phrase “hip-hop” what comes to mind? Baggy jeans, gangster rap, flashy jewelry, or a menacing noise that the new generation of punk kids call music? These are a few stereotypes which people have been led to believe define Hip-hop. In reality Hip-hop is none of these. Those are just a few examples of some of the “excess baggage” that has attached itself to the culture. Hip-hop is a culture which …

…while rappers are only concerned with the cash. Rapping has become a huge money making industry. Rap music has “blown up” in the last decade and created large amounts of criticism and scandal as well. For Example, gangster rap speaks about homicide, drug selling and other risqué subjects. Because of this and other misunderstandings the Hip-hop culture has received a bad reputation. People do not realize that Hip-hop is not a music but a culture.