{"id":9837,"date":"2017-12-04T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=9837"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:39:14","slug":"curious-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/curious-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c9ditorial d'AltWire : L'\u00e9trange cas du hip-hop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boom Bap.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Trap.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lo-Fi.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mob Music.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although there are dozens of different styles of Hip-Hop, few outside of the Hip-Hop culture wouldn\u2019t know it. It\u2019s all \u201cRap Music\u201d to them. Whatever style of is currently trending at the moment becomes the definition of Hip-Hop for the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That makes a lot of Hip-Hop artists angry.\u00a0 But…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Boom-Bap was a product of Evolution itself<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

I LOVE Boom-Bap<\/a>. I grew up on it from the late 80\u2019s and especially the 90\u2019s. Boom-Bap was a product of evolution itself. I remember the samples of early hip-hop before the SP-1200\u2019s and MPC 60\u2019s took over. Hip-Hop was a lot more funkadelic to me then. Boom-Bap was a lot sexier. My first true experience with Boom-Bap was MC Shan\u2019s \u201cThe Bridge\u201d <\/i>produced by Marley Marl. I was a shorty then. But, the way that kick and snare dominated the rhythm over MC Shan spittin made me want to put my voice on wax.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Later on in my teen years, it was Nas\u2019 Illmatic<\/i> that put the nail in the coffin for me. I had a love affair with not only Hip-Hop, but the production behind it. Boom-Bap production made me wanna go crazy on the lyrical tip. Spittin\u2019 bars full of vocabulary, similes, and metaphors was what it was all about for me back then. The day\u2019s of Grandmaster Flash<\/a>, U.T.F.O., and Kool Moe Dee seemed like eons ago, even though only 10 years had passed.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hip-Hop had entered one of the most important, and critical stages of its evolution. However, just like the various eras of Earth\u2019s history, there was more to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although, none was as defined as Boom-Bap, or as most heads know it as: Real Hip-Hop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Every Generation\u2019s Music is a Reflection of Who They Are<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

I think the main point most of us older heads are missing is, today\u2019s Hip-Hop is not about OUR struggle. Today\u2019s popular Hip-Hop is so hard for us to understand because every generation\u2019s music is a reflection of who they are. The 60\u2019s was peace, love, unity, and Civil Rights. Hence, you had the birth of soul ballads, as well as militants like The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron. In order to be a Hip-Hop artist in the late 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s, you had to be lyrical. Yeah, sure there were a couple of artists who slipped through the cracks and found stardom. But, for the most part, nobody was trying to hear you unless you actually had BARS. That\u2019s not taking anything away from today\u2019s popular artists, because they are great in their own way.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We came up in the Crack Era which to be honest, was a devastating and troubling time for Urban communities. Most of us can\u2019t count how many people we know who were victims of drug addiction and violence in the 90\u2019s. We can\u2019t count how many funerals we went to.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of us were victims ourselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hip-Hop was the only outlet and dream for a lot of us trying to avoid being trapped behind those walls. It still is today. We talked about the things that we saw, heard, and experienced because Hip-Hop gave us the voice to do that.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I remember a lot of the older cats in the 90\u2019s who had come up during the Soul and Funk days, the Temptations and O\u2019Jays days, who used to say the exact same thing about our music that we say about today\u2019s Hip-Hop:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not REAL music.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll that ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 but a bunch of noise!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hell, I remember a time, at least in Chicagoland, when you didn\u2019t hear rap at all until Saturday nights from 10pm to 12 am when Ramonski Luv hosted the Rapdown on WGCI. Remember when Hip-Hop was still classified as Pop?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just like today\u2019s music creators, we found ourselves victims of stereotype and generalization. No matter what type of Hip-Hop you performed, we were labeled as thugs and criminals, as opposed to platform-builders or entrepreneurs. Frankly, I still find it hard to understand because these labels came from a generation of music listeners who witnessed the rise and fall of Black pride, the decimation of Urban neighborhoods due to covert government programs like COINTELPRO, and, ironically, the Black Panthers. The street organizations of the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s began as community organizations to uplift and empower urban youth. I didn\u2019t understand how could they hate Hip-Hop when the subject matter in Hip-Hop was a consequence of the actions of the previous generation.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now I watch as my generation does the exact same thing to today\u2019s music creators. The question is…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Will the cycle continue?\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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