My biggest beef with hip hop is the promotion of it as "black culture." How can something you have n

[10:31]

no control over be your cuture?* (end of title)

@The HONORABLE SKJ

I thought Ice Cube "started this gangster shyt"

He forgot to mention Bryan Turner and Jerry Heller were more instrumental than he was but I every time I turn around I'm being told by Coli Bretheren that hip hop is our culture..

How is it ours when we never owned it?

don't own it now?

and may never own it in the future?

"Is this the mother fu_ thanks we get?"

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Its still our culture. We just don't own the business side of it

 

[10:31]

Its still our culture. We just don't own the business side of it

Hip Hop is a genre that is apart of the music business!

 

[IllmaticDelta]

There is a difference between the roots/street level and the corporate commercial level.

 

[10:31]

There is a difference between the roots/street level and the corporate commercial level.

Explain?

Which level plays an imperative role

Also, when you study the genre's roots it was youth driven (for youth) as where today, the most important artists are grown men masquerading as children.

Connect the dots for me, it's beginning to feel like minorities are playing themselves identifying with something they don't own. Seem's very dangerous

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

i think everybody has something they identify with that they don't own. example, should i no longer say im nigerian just because the country is more likely ran by white corporations?

 

[10:31]

i think everybody has something they identify with that they don't own. example, should i no longer say im nigerian just because the country is more likely ran by white corporations?

Identifying with an ethnic group that you're born into can't be equated to being exploited by a culture you claim but never had any stake in ownership in.. I'm not talking owning shares either

big difference

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Identifying with an ethnic group that you're born into can't be equated to being exploited by a culture you claim but never had any stake in ownership in.. I'm not talking owning shares either

big difference

whats the difference?

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Hip Hop is a genre that is apart of the music business!

Yea but it existed before it was apart of the business

 

[SunZoo]

Rap is a genre that is apart of the music business!

*fixed

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Explain?

Which level plays an imperative role

Also, when you study the genre's roots it was youth driven (for youth) as where today, the most important artists are grown men masquerading as children.

Connect the dots for me, it's beginning to feel like minorities are playing themselves identifying with something they don't own. Seem's very dangerous

It's self explanatory. It's like saying Jazz wasn't "Black" culture because it was mass produced pop during the Swing era and the mainstream industry was controlled by "whites".

 

[nineteeneightysix]

Hip Hop is a genre that is apart of the music business!

Don't waste your time, the average coli poster isn't smart enough to understand...

 

[Free White & 21]

Hip Hop is a genre that is apart of the music business!

Hip hop culture was around BEFORE it was part of the music business

Blacks are the biggest influencers (sp) of it, blacks are the most influenced by it.

It's black culture breh. Accept it

 

[Entrapta310]

please dont confuse hip hop with gangster rap

 

[10:31]

please dont confuse hip hop with gangster rap

nothing wrong with gangster rap

That's art. Artists have the right to be artistic. The director of The Godfather is considered a mastermind. I'm not attacking art this thread is about the business.

Why doesn't Lyor Cohen or Jimmy Ivione or Bryan Turner walk around with body guards?