The Personal Opinions For The Developments Of The Future Hip Hop

The Future of Hip hop
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Introduction
“Hip Hop is Dead”, an album released by Nas in December 2006 sparked a controversy among rap listeners and a great number of artists such as Lil Wayne, Ludacris and Young Jeezy who reacted that hip hop was alive and strong in the South. As a response to Nas, Ludacris wore and marketed a T-shirt with the label “Hip Hope Ain’t Dead. It Lives in the South.” On December 6, the same year, Young Jeezy, a Southern rapper went on air confronting MC Monie Love, the old-school MC and claimed that hip hop was not dead, but had changed instead. With a contrary opinion, Monie sided with Nas blaming that the content in rap was a negative force in maintaining the culture. In her opinion, Monie complained about the MCs of modern rhyme whose themes are only centered on street hustling, struggles, and coming up. However, I feel that the stories about hustling and struggling along the path to success are central to the appeal of hip hop and largely connect to important histories of success stories in common Americans’ autobiographies. Such stories show the rap artists actively engage with the reality and that hip hop has become a booming business with its artists often getting rich by selling their struggle stories to be successful in the hip hop industry. Today, hip hop has gone political and grown to be even more complex compared to the heydays of Mone Love. In this paper, I argue that hip hop is not dead, but has a bright future on the success of artists and in influencing the political and socioeconomic policies in the society.
Nas named his album “Hip Hop is Dead” as a marketing scheme, although the album attacks insincerity, commercialism and marketing as elements that would one time get hip hop to its knees. According to the artist’s lyrics, the genre died since it far strayed from its own origins. However, hip hop has undergone extensive evolutionary changes and if the genre remained in the same state it was in the early seventies when it started, then it would not have survived. By 2007, hip hop had expanded beyond the New York City, where it originally began, and now exists globally in a number of local scenes and TV shows such as those aired by MTV. A number of local scenes and independent rap labels globally do indicate that a large number of people are increasingly getting involved in creating hip hop outside the conventional style that it was in 1970s. Today, a great number of artists do rhyme freely out of their love for hip hop, and this shows that hip hop is even more alive in the modern day compared to its time when it began. Many artists besides Nas have hitherto played a role of doom prophets, declaring that hip hop music and culture are on the death bed. This notion was possibly created because hip hop appeared during the fading days of disco, and most critics considered it as a passing fad.
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