Hip-hop revolution: The African connection

This title is a farce. The "Hip Hop" revolution does not exist. A lot of "rappers" these days are criminals or even ex convicts. What sort of message does that send out to younger generations? Here it is: It's okay to break the law. It's plain to see that many rappers today tend to only speak about being rich, having enormous amounts of sex with people, using drugs, getting drunk, breaking the law, and so forth and it has brought shame to the roots of it all.

A lot of people in the rap industry do recognize their roots and speak about them with nothing but love. It's part of their childhood memories and makes them proud to be recognized as well, however, when the cameras are turned off, then the radio mic is off, they switch back onto being show people - with all the jewelry and other materialistic amenities that they wish to drag around.

When Rap first started, it was about struggle, crime, violence, and so forth that was happening in their community. They wanted the rest of the world to know that there are people who live in poverty and even live in below poverty brackets and they're not illegal immigrants but U.S. Citizens. Rap was underground for at least a decade before it became more well known in the 1980s and then in the 1990s it became mainstream and now the real message has been lost.

It'd be rather appalling if "hip hop" actually made it to Africa and made people feel more connected because today's "hip hop" is about the most degrading and materialistic things in the world. It's a lifestyle that they will never be able to afford and it gives them false hope into thinking that they could ever get to that sort of status. Africa is seen as a mostly impoverished continent and it really is and for people to hear such garbage there is basically telling them that they're going to be poor forever and that the rich will get richer thanks to them not making a name of themselves.

It's a continent where slave trading still exists - and it's not the Caucasians doing to to the Afrikaans, its the black Afrikaans selling their children for their own survival and yet they're hearing about Americans making money, sleeping with many people, having guns, killing people, and so forth.

It's not only that but the "Hip Hop" or Rap coming from Jamaica is probably made its way to the ears of Afrikaans as well. And the Jamaican Rap is worse because they promote killing homosexuals and how un-manly it is to be a black man and to be gay.

The revolution died when rappers started talking about being rich, having many women, doing drugs, and committing crimes and it being the right thing to do to "stick it to the man".

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