Change of Plans & So Called "Hip Hop"

Ok first order of business, we've decided to do our blogs every Friday. This is simply because of our schedule at university, and its gonna be hard to fit in our research etc for this project, along with other things we're doing.

Now back onto this weeks blog, the artists and music that claim to be under the hip hop banner. To be more precise, snap music and pop rap. Now most of you can probably guess what artists we're talking about, artists like Soulja Boy, Hurricane Chris, D4L, Dem Franchize Boyz etc.

These artists are useless for hip hop but are still liked by the younger youth as we found out from research that we did,and are aimed specifically to be catchy. These types are loved in night clubs because the videos that are produced have a specific dance and are aimed for the younger generation for a age group around 10-21.

Should this type of so called hip hop music be allowed to be associated with the genre? Its understandable from the business side of things, how they are used as a way of marketing the genre and it is working. But this happening is in our opinion, killing off the real meaning of what hip hop was and should still be, the poetry of the streets.

PEACE...

6oD

A joint production

So what we thought we would do this week as a one off to begin with, is both contribute on a blog together. Normally one of us will do a blog on Monday's and the other on Friday's.

The blog is mainly about contrasts in the 'golden age' of hip hop compared to the modern age hip hop scene. But there is one discussion that has caught our eye, aiming on a particular rapper that goes by the name of Lil' Wayne.
We've found that the majority of blog sites and discussion boards are going back and forth arguing whether he is of 'legendary' status or not, with the majority of people saying he is not. But what of those of the people who say that he is?

The Queen of Diamonds says: Lil' Wayne can have his good moments, but he has mostly bad moments, his rap style can be a little silly and on alot of tracks he mumbles the lyrics which can be annoying becuase you cannot understand him. He recently started the whole T-pain auto-tuner singing style, my personal opinion on it is its unecessary because it sounds awful and why not be unique. Now the question is "Is lil Wayne the future for Hip Hop?"

The six of Diamonds says: I would also like to ask the question, is this the direction Hip Hop should be going?

We look forward to your views on this

PEACE...

6oD & QoD

Intro

Hey

This is your boy 6oD kickin' off a brand new blog along with my queen, the Queen of Diamonds!

Basically we're creating this blog for a uni project. In our brief we basically wrote:

"On this project we are focusing on the current state of Hip Hop and observing people’s opinions on this by looking at various blogs. We are going to compare agreements and disagreements of people on the blogs, of their views of whether hip hop is dying as a genre in music and what people think is causing this. We will also be looking at a brief history of hip-hop and peoples views on if hip hop was a better era during the ‘Golden Age’ of hip-hop then what hip hop music has become today. We will look at the different styles of rapping from the current rappers there are, and also we will look at the rapping styles when hip hop started off."

From that we also aim to answer the following questions:

Why people voicing their opinions via blogging?

Do people’s opinions via blogging influence others to change their views on that particular subject?

Do people voice their opinions through different mediums such as video blogging, if so how do they get their message across?

How is hip hop influential to the youths compared to twenty years ago, and how is this shown in the blogs, i.e. age-wise?

We look forward to your comments during these next few months...

...PEACE

6oD