Please Read Hip-Hop article for school and tell me opinions?

Question by ♥♪♪The Doggone lover is mine♪♪♥: Please Read Hip-Hop article for school and tell me opinions?
Hip-hop is dying, and with the help of Atlanta rapper Soulja Boy Tell em’, it has recently had a heart attack. “Boy I spit harder I spit fire, We tell them old washed up rappers to retire”. These lyrics are from his big hit single, released in 2008. I guarantee he wouldn’t dare say this to the faces of Public Enemy, Tupac or any other pioneers of the once great art. With Tupac, Eminem and The Notorious B.I.G dominating the top 20 biggest selling hip-hop albums of all time, with a unimaginable amount of platinum awards. It really does make you think if hip-hop is dead. The roots and coal mines of hip-hops great foundation started in the 70’s, 80’s. After the assassinations of Tupac and Biggie, a niche was available for anything that would sell to the shocked hip-hop fans.

Hip-hop started to gain a high reputation around the early 70’s, in New York, hip-hop music was generally played on the streets during block parties. These kind of events occurred mainly in the Bronx. DJ’s started noticing the positive response from these types of records, so they started to drag out the main concept of this music e.g. rap and mixed it with Jamican vocals and percussions. Jamican styles contributed to hip-hop greatly, the only reason this was able to happen was because of the substantial Jamaican immigrant community in New York.

So how did hip-hop change so suddenly? Was it the fame getting to these artists minds? Many singers, rappers, producers and other music icons have stated that hip-hop was doomed from the mid 80’s, the time when the crack trade had a heavy influence on rising hip-hop artists. Even though the politically aware group, Public Enemy was around at this time, they still continued making diverse music. So who did the crack trade affect? The best guess would have to be the gangster rappers of the early 90’s onwards, they made good beats and rhymes but now in the 21st century it has gone too far. The 90’s brought gangster rap to the studios and this is when being a part of the Westside and Eastside really mattered. Famous artists from this era are Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and The Wu-Tang Clan.

Maybe it’s the popular demand of hearing rappers talk about struggle in a ghetto which didn’t exist, maybe it’s the fame, some say there’s a code in hip-hop and no man should cross it. Who knows? One thing for certain is that if this gangster garbage comes out of every rappers mouth for years to come, then they’re fake liars. In the 80’s and 90’s and maybe early 21st century rappers could rap about life in the hood, no money, no food, no nothing but now there’s no excuse. Money is everything and everything is money. No rapper could possibly have a childhood like Public Enemy or Eminem nowdays. There’s just too much help services for them to rap about that life.

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Answer by yofancy
True.

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