Originally posted by P, that Dude
if you look at hiphop as a culture, a lifestyle...... then ill guess youll agree with the statement... just look at how the media is hoe'ing the artform, White dudes dressing up like niggas, every mainstream video has to have semi-nude b*tches, politicians getting rappers to endorse them, hollywood dickriding the hiphop culture
I think that's an example of hip-hop as a culture transcending its formative years. It being popular and wide-spread is not a bad thing, but its exploitation as a vehicle of 'instant cool' is sad and depressing, although not surprising in the least.
Originally posted by -hh-
i never understood thisThe Mason-Dixon Line, been across ya mind like night-sticks
rain down on the game and **** it up like white kicksit's sick how Natti says it, but i dont get it 😬
i dont see how the mason-dixon line has anything to do with night sticks. the only thing i can think of is that you've thought about it so its been across your mind, and night sticks were across your mind because you were hit in the head.
you probably get the white kicks line, they get ****ed up cuz they get dirty really easily.
Originally posted by Phat Jyea i got the white kicks, but i dont really get mason-dixon and night sticks 😬
i dont see how the mason-dixon line has anything to do with night sticks. the only thing i can think of is that you've thought about it so its been across your mind, and night sticks were across your mind because you were hit in the head.you probably get the white kicks line, they get ****ed up cuz they get dirty really easily.
maybe im thinking about it too much 😛
i dunno, i listened to his one album food and liquor, that was alright. nothin really jumped out at me though, like really made me wanna listen to it again and again. not bad though.
Originally posted by -hh-
yea i got the white kicks, but i dont really get mason-dixon and night sticks 😬maybe im thinking about it too much 😛
Originally posted by Mugenyea Lupe is a great storyteller. i like his material, i enjoyed 'Food & Liquor'
wht do you guys think of Lupe Fiasco? i was at work and all, and BET was on, and they showed his video and he was skateboarding, and it was about sakteboarding and life, definetly new i'll admit. the beat was nasty too. i was feelin it fa real ✅
Originally posted by Phat Jyea i guess thats it. i was just thinking about it too much.
i dunno, i listened to his one album food and liquor, that was alright. nothin really jumped out at me though, like really made me wanna listen to it again and again. not bad though.i thought about it a bit more, and i think im right. the mason dixon line is pretty much common knowledge for a lot of people, so that would be "across your mind". like i said before, if you were to be hit in the head with a nightstick, that'd also be "across your mind". i dunno, thats what i get out of it.
Originally posted by P, that Dude
but if you look at hiphop as a culture, a lifestyle...... then ill guess youll agree with the statement... just look at how the media is hoe'ing the artform, White dudes dressing up like niggas, every mainstream video has to have semi-nude b*tches, politicians getting rappers to endorse them, hollywood dickriding the hiphop culture
This somewhat confuses me...
What would hip-hop as culture have to entail in order to still be alive?
Does it have to be non-comerical? Strictly black? Completely politically detached?
What is a hip-hop 'lifestyle' exactly? Do you have to live a certain way in order to be 'hip-hop'?
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
What is a hip-hop 'lifestyle' exactly? Do you have to live a certain way in order to be 'hip-hop'?
To the first question; I wouldn't necessarily say there is such a thing. There's a lifestyle that a lot of hip hop fans adhere to, but that lifestyle isn't necessarily called hip hop. Hip hop is a musical genre.
To the second question; No, you don't. Yet there are people out there who believe so, their opinion is negligible and they are stupid. The kind of people who believe that a person's understanding of hip hop music is limited if they don't live where it comes from. Eg: "White dudes dressing up as niggas."
I wasn't aware "niggas", as he so accurately put it, had a specific dress code. I thought "nigga" was a derogatory, racist term that applies to anyone with a dark skin tone and of a certain descent. I didn't think you couldn't be a "nigga" if you wore a suit.
So you see, people speaking like P are doing more to restrict what hip hop really stands for, than they are of helping it.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauriamen to that ✅, im black and i don't approve of the word nigga, in any cirucmstance, only time i might say it, is in lyrics to a song. i dont let my black frineds call me that, and if they do im quick to correct them. the use of the word is ridiculous and has gotten out of hand, to the point where there are 2 forms of the word with different meanings.when did acting and talking "ghetto" or "Black" become some sort of social status or fad. some people at my school criticize this black kid at my school because of how he talks, the clothes he wears, and who he hangs with. saying hes sooo "white" or certain white people are blacker then him.how can they be blacker than him when he is black? since when is being black defined by certain clothing style, musical prefrence, and oral language and dialogue?
To the first question; I wouldn't necessarily say there is such a thing. There's a lifestyle that a lot of hip hop fans adhere to, but that lifestyle isn't necessarily called hip hop. Hip hop is a musical genre.To the second question; No, you don't. Yet there are people out there who believe so, their opinion is negligible and they are stupid. The kind of people who believe that a person's understanding of hip hop music is limited if they don't live where it comes from. Eg: "White dudes dressing up as niggas."
I wasn't aware "niggas", as he so accurately put it, had a specific dress code. I thought "nigga" was a derogatory, racist term that applies to anyone with a dark skin tone and of a certain descent. I didn't think you couldn't be a "nigga" if you wore a suit.
So you see, people speaking like P are doing more to restrict what hip hop really stands for, than they are of helping it.
-AC
P please read this, im hoping it will give you a new perspective on the use of the word Nigga.
http://www.daveyd.com/nigaornigpol.html
as far as hip-hop being a lifestyle, its what you make it. graffiti, DJ, MCing, B-boying(breakdancing). i guess if you does those, some people might say your lifestyle is more hip-hop influenced, which it is, seeing as how that is your career choice, but IMO thats what I see as a hip-hop lifestyle, somebody thats actually doing the form, as a opposed, somebody watching or listening to it.
Nice article Mugen.
I was always taught by my dad that it was an offensive word and he heard it used that way plenty as did i growing up. I grew up in a racist part of London where skinheads would use it all the time when referring to me or anyone else of colour, thats what it has always meant to me and thats why i dont use it myself.
Im not naive enough to think thats what brothers using it nowadays mean when they say it but just as its my choice not to use it, its their choice to use it. I just think somewhere members of the KKK are sitting there laughing at brothers on the TV calling themselves the word that was used to oppress them for so many years.