Info about Hiphop
The future of hip hop
Who can forget the great feeling you get when you listen to 2Pacs song about “the citaaay of L.A.” or the song about Slim Shady's name. These are the songs of two of the greatest rappers of all time and since Clive Campbell aka DJ Kool Herc threw his first parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in New York City down in the Bronx the genre of hip hop started to evolve reaching its climax as a cultural movement rather than a music type much like rock n’ roll. But where is hip hop going? We’ve seen its rise, its dominance, its decline and logically we’d expect its fall but will hip hop ever have a fall?
As mentioned above, hip hop grew into a cultural movement, the music of the outcasts, the sound in witch young kids that didn’t have such a brilliant social status could escape. The music helped them cope with their problems but sometimes it made them make bad decisions. In both cases the young kids felt that they belonged to something, that someone out there has the same problems as they have. This pushed them to focus on the dream of becoming rappers and escape their current situation. These kids once were Tupac Shakur and Marshall Mathers. But where is this genre going? As it looks so far, it’s doing great! Rappers have a great commercial success and now focus on more current problems in their lyrics like the war in the Middle East but slowly, hip hop is turning away from the lyrical themes that made it famous. Rappers stop singing about social problems, about bustin’ a move or a rhyme. Most of them turned to the more melodic R ‘n B that focuses of themes like love. Slowly, the true hip hop we used to know is going underground again, returning to its roots and soon it just might disappear just because it is not hip anymore. It is possible that hip hop will be obsolete on the commercial music industry and will return to what it used to be: music for the outcasts. Maybe one day we will see its rise again but sometimes a great fall can make you put some order in your thoughts and realize what you truly are.
There aren't too many chances that hip hop will be around the commercial music industry in the future and this is only for the best. Rappers all around the world will realize that singing about candy shops and a good life is something that skids living in the slums can not relate to. Hip hop will have its fall for the media but its rise for the ones who truly appreciate it.