Jackie Robak
This discussion really opened my eyes to the hip hop culture. I never really have been into hip hop but it was really cool to get the inside scoop on it. I kind of had always thought that hip hop and rap was almost the same thing. I didn’t realize that “rap was the lyrics to the hip hop culture.�
I also thought it was interesting that they both Alexs and Melissa thought that the music that we hear on the radio is not what true hip hop is. They said that it is all what the corporations want us to hear, that part of what we hear is due to how much money the company has to spend on “air time.� It made me laugh a little to think of my friends that are really into hip hop because technically they don’t know anything about the subject, because they listen to 96.3 and other radio stations like that.
I agreed with the fact that the hip hop revolution resembles the hippie movement. In both situations you have a group of people who are rebelling and starting a revolution. And they both used music as a tool. Alexs made a comment on how their culture wasn’t going to do it the way the republicans did, which is why they wore their pants on their ass and had their hats tilted to the side.
One more thing I thought was interesting was that they said there are no really good hip hop artist any more. How Public Enemy isn’t around anymore. A group that says it like it is. That rebels against the things that are oppressing them not about bitches, money, and cars like you hear today.