Why bash hip hop?!

Why bash hip hop?

I was just in the football forum and I wanted to get some true hip-hop heads take on this Mike VIck thing. Multiple people arestating that Hip hop is responsible for his downfall, and that the HIp-hop culture can't be seperated from this "thugish, gang" culture.

In my opinion Hip hop was created as a voice for an underrepresented cuture that had adapted in order to survive.

I just wanted your input on this.

1 week ago
Please if you only listen to radio comercialized rap don't respond to this. I am talking true hip hop family here.

i agree wit u and yea i knwo all bout commercialized radio hiphop but i also listen 2 real hiphop...and ppl dont know..they stereotype EVERYTHING, and from wuut they hear of hiphop and the "gangsta" "ghetto" hiphop culture (u know, drugs, alcohol, sex, gangs, hoes, etc.) they think its all bad...and comercialized hiphop culture 2 many parents like my own, makes them sick..i dont really like it either..i enjoy all kinds of hiphop..im 14, so of course i like the catchy, snap music, stuff u hear on the radio (even tho its kinda bullcrap)..cuz its catchy and i guess fun...but unlike some easily influenced kids, i dont take the bad, inappropriate, degrading, meaningless lyrics 2 heart...my parents think im all ghetto and easily influenced, so they think if i hear and inappropriate lyrics in rap songs that say like "smoke weed everyday " for example, theyd think im dumb enough 2 listen 2 them and do that. HELL NO! what do they thin k i am? i know wuts right and wroong, and just cuz i think commercialized rap and hiphop is sometimes catchy (im 14, come on).....i dont look up 2 these ppl, and very few of them i like (the person themself)...even if theyre hot lol.......but i do know what real hiphop is & where it originated from....that doesnt mean in real hiphop they never swear or talk about the bad stuff...but theyre not promotin it the way commercialized stuff is...theyre tellin it like it is on the streets and their stories....i told my parents that but they dont care as long as they curse or say anythin bad they dont want me near it...but at least when they talk bout it in real hip hop its not makin it sound good or fun..and they have lyrics wit meaning....sometimes use metaphors wordplay, and symbolism.....lyrics in mainstream stuff ..when i hear them...it doesnt go 2 my heart or brain or soul (i know sounds corny)...it just stays on the surface (symbolically)... i mean i cant connect wit the lyrics cuz theyre kinda dumb and meaningless..but in real hiphop no matter how bad it is either, at least it MEANS somethin and 4 me, it goes beneath the surface cuz its deep and the lyrics are like poetry..clever, witty, intelligent...so i agree with u ..and the thing wit Vick....i mean maybe if hes into commercialized hiphop culture (gangs, drugs, hoes, sex, chains, grillz, etc.)..i dunno maybe that kinda got him into it but honestly thhats his choice 2 do that....but i don think u can really blame hiphop..come on, he's a big boy, cant he think for himself? hope i helped. :)