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Originally posted by damasa
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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Well, you have good taste in music.
But if you are really in tune with hip hop, surely you have heard of KRS ONE? He is the most outspoken suporter of hip hop CULTURE...not mtv/bet/top 40 hip hop, but the b-boying, DJing, graffiti, and lyricism. THAT is TRUE hip hop culture. Today though, anything "urban" is labeled hip hop and thus the mainstream definition as most people know it.
If you asked ME, I would say no, you are not hip hop. You appreciate conscious hip hop music... nothing more, nothing less.