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If you think about it, what is hip-hop? Is hip-hop a musical movement? Is it a subculture? What exactly is hip-hop, or how do you view hip-hop?
I listen to "hip-hop" music almost exclusively (I have my other likes) but for the most part I listen to hip-hop.
I'm talking about real hip-hop too, not this fake Cash Money Millionaires music. I'm talking about Common, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, Atmosphere (slug), Juice, Dead Prez, Mos Def, DJ Honda, Goodie Mob...the list goes on.
But is hip hop more than that? Is it more than must the music? Because if hip hop is everythign surrounding the music, including clothes, language, all that, then I'm not truly hip-hop, or am I?
Can I still be hip-hop while rockin' my Gap and J. Crew? To me, it's about the music and nothing more.
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