Is the Hip Hop Culture a Good or Bad thing?

[Jay Volcano]

It won't be the same in a few years. All this "swag stuff" will be gone and we'll have something else to talk/complain about. *** is the only theme that will last forever.

[Spartacus Sully]

I been sellin' crack like since the 5th grade

5th graders selling crack??!!!! that's fuvked up? what are we as a society actively doing to improve this situation? Mandatory min of 5 years for selling crack wasn't helping nothing. that currently 1 gram of crack carries the same sentence as 28 grams of ******* aint doing nothing just like the previous 1 gram of crack carrying the same sentence as 100 grams of ******* didn't do anything.

think about that, non violent satatory **** and 1 gram of crack used to carry about the same sentence, if not the satatory **** carrying a lighter one.

5th graders selling crack, this should be an eye opener to every one here.
a reality that whether its sung about in rap or not, it is happening in our cities, in our schools, and the best we can do is talk about how bad hip hop culture is.

If you want to improve hip hop culture, improve living conditions for impoverished inner city **********.

[MDPopescu]

From the anthropological point of view the actual existence of a culture (sub-culture) can't be judged in terms of "good" or "bad"...

... Underground, fringe, alternative (sub)cultural movements ever existed. If "strong" enough they were "recuperated" by the "mainstream" culture.

There's nothing more to discuss about such things.

[DosRounds]

I been sellin' crack like since the 5th grade

big tune

[10COUNT]

The hip hop culture today is an embarrassment. Lyrics are the last thing that people focus on. It's all about a beat and chorus. You can pretty much say any nonsense and gibberish in between that just to fill out the song. The culture today has migrated to metro ***ual era where men and women both do the same thing (act tough, wear make up, tight clothes etc). There is literally no positiveness that comes from it. Everyone wants to be tatted up from top to bottom (and pretty much ruining any potential future at that point) and wear tight jeans where they still somehow sag. I think there is nothing manly about hanging around a bunch of dudes while yall look at each others underwear.

[lefthook2daliva]

hip hop is jazz

jazz is whimsical math

hip hop is good

youth culture is always embarrassing

live with it

[SlySlickSmooth]

@OP, Post an artist who you think represents "hip hop culture"

[Divine Hammer]

nothing good about hip hop culture. it promotes sin and illuminati.

[Banderivets]

@OP, Post an artist who you think represents "hip hop culture"

See, the difference today is that good hip hop like this track you posted used to be on mainstream TV, the music might not have been mainstream but it was up there.

2PAC and Biggie I remember that **** on MTV in Ukraine of all places in the 90s, I didn't have to look for some underground mixtapes for it.

Some might say, "well you are old now so you don't think the new stuff is hot like what you grew up on" but that I call bull**** on that.

Today it's all about getting high off lean and nippin' down foodro on the block.

The content changed, what guys used to rap about and what they rap about these days...night and day.

Even the more popy **** from early 2000s wasn't that bad. Say some old Cam'ron, it was alright.


And the underground argument just doesn't apply man. That was always the case for all music.

[NChristo]

'Hip Hop' is more then just the music