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