What Is Hip Hop?

These days we have trusted the media and corporations to define what hip hop is. It's like now cats believe that 98.5 virgin radio is the station where hip hop lives so they hear that and fail to understand that it's some corporation owned by orthodox suit-and-tie businessmen that ain't got nothing to do with hip hop and are trying to cash in. It's like "oh, hip hop lives there! Alright so they must know. That must be what hip hop is!" But no... we have never let the media and corporations define us so why are y'all letting them do that now? Hip hop grew out of originality it was conceived by those who stood for what they believed and those that pushed against the so called conventions of the mainstream. Hip hop started with mcs, djs, graff writers and bboys that went out of their way to be different and bring something new to the table. Nowadays shits all backwards and its like you gotta be like everybody else if you wanna be "hip hop". Fuck that shit.



You gotta rap about pimping and bitches, violence and drugs and if you don't... man that ain't hip hop. You gotta be black and if you ain't, good luck getting proper exposure. You sure as hell better not be a faggot and you sure as hell better rep masculinity harder than that next brother. Every lyrical style is gonna have to sound the same and its gonna have to lack flow, rhythm, poetic meter, cadence, breath control and originality and if you don't lack all that shit good luck being talented. Also, y'all are all gonna have to bite everybody else's style cuz thats what sells. If it doesn't sound like everybody else then that obviously ain't hip hop. If you don't rock the wackest drum kit with automated claps and snares that ain't even sound like snares, if you don't sequence a catchy beat with the right bpm then you ain't gonna get a record deal and you ain't gonna get exposure cuz that ain't hip hop that you're making.



Y'all don't even know the half, the music ain't even the most important aspect of it all. Most important of all is the clothes you gotta rock. Make sure you got the right front on so that you're fronting just a little bit better than them other guys. These orthodox suit-and-tie businessmen that hijacked hip hop found the ingredients to conjure up instant soul in a bottle. And if you ain't drinking this mass produced soul in a bottle and you ain't faking the funk, then hip hop ain't for you...



Just like b-real said "This is hip hop, not fashion", but nowadays there is so much importance on fashion and ideal looks in the music industry that it takes precedence over the musical quality itself. You ain't gotta rap or sing anymore just let the rich record executives produce your beats and write your lyrics. For everything else, there's auto-pitch... Keep sucking their dicks and they'll hook you up with all the bitches, all the bling, and all the money and fame you would ever want. That's far more important than hip hop innit?

R.I.P. ARCANEGEL

R.I.P. Arcanegel, you'll be missed. Props to all you brought to hip hop, it wouldn't be close to as ill without you. You were one real mother fucking lyricist. I looked up to you a lot lyrically.

Fuck a moment of silence... Lets have a day of Arcanegel.


http://www.myspace.com/arcanegel





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Quotations Of The Late Terrence McKenna

"It seems to me that it [Nature] is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language."

"Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity."

"Nature is actually the goal at the end of history."

"Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination."

"And what we’re looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization."

"We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what’s going on or that the generation which follows us will know what’s going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what’s going on?"

"It’s no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other."

"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

"Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society."

"Living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding. So that every day you know more, and see into things with greater depth, than you did before."

"Culture is another dimention."

"The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation."

~Terrence McKenna