Thoughts on international effects of hip-hop?!


Question: I know that people listen to rap around the world, and not just stuff from their countries, also the rap we talk about.
My question is, for people who have never even lived in America, how much do you think they can connect to American hip hop?


on a sidenote, I started thinking about this when I put up a question in the Italian RHH section and got (translated) "real american rap, that comes from the foundations of soul, that old school! for me, it's oxygen."


Answers: I know that people listen to rap around the world, and not just stuff from their countries, also the rap we talk about.
My question is, for people who have never even lived in America, how much do you think they can connect to American hip hop?


on a sidenote, I started thinking about this when I put up a question in the Italian RHH section and got (translated) "real american rap, that comes from the foundations of soul, that old school! for me, it's oxygen."

Prodigenius - where did you get that from?? And what do you mean by "Europe"? There are 48 countries in Europe, each with their own languages and culture. Europe is just the name of a continent, it doesn't define the actual country a person is from.

Anyway, I'm from Scotland, and I connect to hip hop on a lot of levels. There is a huge underground hip hop scene here. I think a lot of Scottish people have suffered at the hands of English governments over the centuries, so we can really relate to music like hip hop because it's kind of the voice of the underdog. Where a rapper might talk about the ghetto, we translate that into council estate, and most working class Scots can relate to that (well, most working class Brits can relate to that).
I first got into hip hop when I was 12 and I heard Nation of Millions. At the time, Thatcher was ruling things here, and she'd just introduced the very unfair Poll Tax - which is one of those taxes that screws the poor and doesn't really affect the rich. She illegaly introduced this tax in Scotland before England to "test" it, and it left a lot of people who were already strugling even worse off. Those who tried to take a stand and refuse to pay it were put in jail.Because of her shutting down major industries all over Britain (the shipyards in Scotland really suffered), unemployment was through the roof and families were falling apart trying to cope. My mum had 3 jobs at the time, and we were still struggling. There were a lot of rich kids at my school, and everything was about having the most expensive clothes, shoes etc. So, when I first heard Public Enemy, I wasn't, at 12 years old, really hearing it in terms of what was happening in the US, I was hearing a voice for people who nobody else seemed (in my world anyway) to care about. To me, I heard that it was OK not be be one of the rich kids, that it was wrong for governments to oppress people, and that standing up for your beliefs was a powerful thing.
So, although hip hop is a very American thing, it can be related to on all levels by people all over the world. That's the beauty of it.

They don't hate as much rap like here.
50 Cent is like God in Europe lol.

well, Im not sure if Im correct on this, but my thoughts are that the Hip Hop culture traveled <of course...it traveled just like everything else....

EDIT: are you asking how did Hip Hop get so big in all the different countries?? and how do they know so much about the artists in America?? <<< is that what your asking?

Some like the mainstream things, and some like real hip hop, it's not and entire country or whatever you should look at but the individual people. People here connect to some of the mainstream, but that doesn't mean they like it.

They can connect strongly to it. The songs these rappers spit are stories, just like any movie or television show that you would view. I have never shot anyone but it is not hard for me to hear a rapper talk about it. The only thing that might throw one off is the slang that may be used.



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