Hip-Hop Politics

Hip-Hop started off as a gateway for oppressed, passionate people to express themselves. It holds a memory of crowds on the corner, not to pick-up a bag, but to listen, flow, and spit. The story of ones life slipped through their mouth in a poetry trance. Hip-hop started clean and real. Unfortunately, the inspiration and motivation was traded in for money, hoes, and guns. Being hopeful and optimistic, turned into a battle of pimps and thugs. Lyrics were limited to "shake it bitch," "I got money" and "I'll kill a nigga!" After so many disappointments, I almost gave up on Hip-Hop's future. Before I changed my genre, I discovered up and coming artists that produced songs with a sense of moral. Although the beats and lines were new to my ears, I couldn't help but feel it was familiar. As I dug up more songs and more artists, I realized. Hip-hop was breathing again. It has not reached the status it was once at, but we are making our way. We are just one step closer to hope. The new scene is featuring MCs speaking of motivation, political issues, world wide problems, and they are calling out those that are making a song just for the money rather than for the love. America is falling into a depression, not just economically, but emotionality. Like Nas states in his new release off his currently untitled album... "They looking for a hero... I guess that makes me a hero." Hip-Hop, we need you more than ever, keep feeding us the music we're starving for.

Track on Play:

The Game ft. Lil Wayne - My Life

Quote from Song:

"So eat this black music,

And tell me how it taste now

And f**k Jesse Jackson

'Cause it ain't about race now! "