Hiphop started out radical and will always be radical. If this statement confuses you, it means you're not a participant in hiphop culture, you're just a consumer. #hiphopsky
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Is it possible for non-Black consumers to become participants in a meaningful way? It’s easy to like and listen to music, but feels like pure consumption is, on some level, unacceptable in this case.
It sure as hell did! It was literally created as a cultural force in marginalized communities and was used to express social commentary and it critiqued systems of oppression. Furious Five, Public Enemy, BDP, and Eric B and Rakim come to mind when we’re talking about radicals.
Hip-Hop for me is like Reggae and Punk, rebel music. It upsets me how Hip-Hop has been destroyed and hijacked by corporations that support the status quo. Hip-Hop will always be revolutionary music to me.
I’m starting to think that the music label-prison pipeline truly exists! The theory is that music labels use gangster rappers to influence crime and keep the for-profit prisons running at full capacity.
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