Hip hop goes beyond the radio, beyond MTV. Its bigger than rap or graffiti, these are merely elements that people can choose to enact. It’s a culture that ANYONE can embrace without ever saying a single hurtful comment.
There is so much beautiful hip hop out there more people just need to find it and look beyond what they are fed.

Hip-hop is a lot more diverse than the gangsta rap. I’m a rapper myself and have never, ever said I would physically harm another, in fact, on certain tracks, I say the opposite, advocating non-violence. Some tracks are aggressive, but not for you to go out and murder someone, but for you to feel for the situation and get mad that such a thing has occurred. For example, if a bunch of kids were shot because of their race, I would make the most angriest feeling track to get you to say “Hey! This shouldn’t go on. We should band together and make sure this doesn’t happen again.” At the same time making it known that violence will only make you as bad as them, and earn you the same disrespect.

It’s not hip-hop’s fault that there’s so much violent music being aired. Artists like Common and Mos Def are also non-violent, but how many tracks do you hear of theirs? Not many, if any, and why? Not because there’s a lack of songs that are peaceful, in fact there’s heaps coming out all the time. No, it’s because, you the one’s who label hip-hop as anti-social CHOOSE to play these types of songs on the radio and tv. And then you say it’s all anti-social. Hold on…did you even listen to half of these songs to figure out what they’re saying? Probably not. You probably see “Gangsta’s Paradise” and think “this song is evil” without even realizing that it’s actually about their current situation.

And for you who say that a group of people who gather in a group to recite lyrics (usually made on the spot) are anti-social? Wow…you guys have absolutely no comprehension of what the real world is. The world is full of real issues. The first one is that you idiots are ignorant. Secondly, stop using a very minor part of a wide community to label it negatively. It’s pretty stupid.

Anyway, my point should have been made. Hip-hop is hip-hop, not 1 shot, 2 shot.

Peace,
The Big Shaquan Ghost.

why shouldn’t kids in the hood be anti-social…society is anti them.