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Originally Posted by djnemo65
I love Hiphop - in fact I wrote my senior thesis in college on it's early development in New York - so I tend to get defensive when people attempt to blame it for social problems which exist independent of it. The problem is this: Hiphop wasn't foisted on the black community, it grew organically in response to worsening economic conditions and declining urban standards of living.
While Hiphop may have provided a style and discourse for articulating the everyday struggle, it didn't create the struggle. The problems in black communities are, were, and will continue to be economic first.
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Okay I'm not crapping on hip hop, cause I'm Black and I've grown up in not the best conditions, so I understand where it's coming from and of course the base of all problems are economic.
And yes, old school hip hop DID focus on economic struggles. I respect old school hip hop. Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, I'm all with that. But I really don't think the bitches and the hos and waving my tech-9 around have anything to do with growing up in poverty.