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If by crimes you mean graffiti then yes you are correct. "The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms, with a heavy overlap between those who wrote and those who practiced other elements of the culture." Wikapedia
However, if my memory serves me correct most violent criminals in the world actually perferred Heavy Metal, rock and demonic songs than hip-hop. Also remember Rap & Hip Hop are two different things. Rap is genre of poetry and music in which rhyming lyrics are used, with or without musical accompaniment; and is one of the four elements of Hip-Hop. While Hip-Hop is a lifestyle movement created in the early 1970's.
So Blondie you're right... Ignorance is bliss.
I want to add that hip-hop doesn't create gangs... people do. As far as this whole educated thing you keep repeating. From reading your posts you are either a freshman in college or don't have a high enough IQ to properly convey an argument. Either way I would leave those statements out of your rebuttals. It's for your own good, you really are making your self sound like that inwhich you are mocking.
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Originally Posted by Blondie621
Ignorance goes along with people being uneducated! Face the facts!
Here it is in black and white! Hip Hop and crime go hand in hand! What is Hip Hop Music? - Associated Content
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I think when they started giving out the Grammy for best hip hop and Rap artist in 1989? the music had to change. Once it became "Ligit" the focus of the artist went from communicating something to their people to $,$$$,$$$. It seems everybody who was rapping back then went in to the movies and TV. There was somthing about hip hop, funk , Jazz or what ever that inspired people if the artist knew they were not in it to get rich or the possibility didn't exist, I don't think its fair to connect hip hop with promoting gang activity because after all Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, and Pretty Boy Floyd robbed banks shot up people and got in their car and turned on the radio to chill to some kind of music also.
I think Lil Wayne and Shawty Lo are a step up from Soulja Boy. I don't listen to the Carter 3 cd anymore either, it was alright but I probably won't listen to it again.
I think when they started giving out the Grammy for best hip hop and Rap artist in 1989? the music had to change. Once it became "Ligit" the focus of the artist went from communicating something to their people to $,$$$,$$$. It seems everybody who was rapping back then went in to the movies and TV. There was somthing about hip hop, funk , Jazz or what ever that inspired people if the artist knew they were not in it to get rich or the possibility didn't exist, I don't think its fair to connect hip hop with promoting gang activity because after all Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, and Pretty Boy Floyd robbed banks shot up people and got in their car and turned on the radio to chill to some kind of music also.
you maybe right. but it really didn't show a change until 1997 at the earliest. Hip Hop was still pure for several years after 1989. 1994 was one of the greatest years in hip hop history. 1995 and 1996 wasn't bad itself either.
word , that was the year "The Miseducation of Laryn Hill" won the grammy. I think all the industry insiders had to know it could never be topped in terms of a rap,hip hop, R&B album. the criticts love it also. Maybe the years building up to that album will be seen as the classic era of hip hop
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it funny as hell
