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What happened to Hip Hop's Social Consciousness?

What happened to Hip Hop's Social Consciousness?

www.austinweeklynews.com - Rap music has undergone drastic changes in the last 20 years. Considered the golden era of the music and culture, the '80s to mid-'90s, is when many Hip Hop purists came of age. Fans of that era blissfully reminisce of the days when one could tune to BET's Rap City in the afternoons and view videos by seminal "gangsta" rap group NWA, but then be sobered by the anti-violence message in a video by KRS-One. For some "old-school fans," such days are long gone.

Submitted By xfactor213 86 days ago
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  • hallway4life's Avatar
    hallway4life says... 85 days ago Score: 2 Grind this Comment Trash this Comment

    Hip hop the music is far from dead!! But I do believe that the movement is dying!! Don't get it twisted, I am a fan of artists like Jay Z, Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, all of that. but why can't I go to the record store, and see the new Talib album or Dead Prez album, right next to the Ludacris or new G-unit cd?? They almost want people to believe that positive hip hop don't even exist, which is sad because now these kids out here think artist like soulja boy and hurricane chris are what a true mc should sound like, and don't even have respect for their past and the artist out here doing it for them, now that mc with some type of message is labeled corny??? It's really sad to see that this new generation of black kids coming up, is going to have little to no sense of pride or respect of our culture and history!!

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  • scarletfever's Avatar
    scarletfever says... 85 days ago Score: 2 Grind this Comment Trash this Comment

    thats why artists who believe in the orgin of rap need to come together and take it back. make music that makes sense.

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  • xfactor213's Avatar
    xfactor213 says... 85 days ago Score: 0 Grind this Comment Trash this Comment

    I agree, he needs to expand his hip-hop IQ and realize that there are A LOT of emcees out there spittin the truth. Just not the ones that the mainstream chooses to focus on.

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    hellifiknow says... 86 days ago Score: 1 Grind this Comment Trash this Comment

    guess the writer hadn't heard the nas CD when he wrote this...or really any nas CD's becuase he's one mainstream rapper who has always been socially conscious. mos def, talib, common, also so this article is a little unbalanced.

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