Archive for September 2, 2007
Throwback Joint: Prince Paul - A Prince Among Theives
CAST
breezly brewin as tariq
big sha as true
big daddy kane as count mackula
kool keith as crazy lou
chubb rock as mr. large
de la soul as the customers
everlast as officer o’maley bitchkowski
xzibit as convict #1
sadat x as convict #2
produced by prince paul
You Aint Hip Hop ( So Kill That Noise) by Wise Intelligent
An Intelligent Word…YOU AIN’T HIP HOP!
Here we go again. I love Hip Hop, although, not as much as I love the people that created it and continue to shape its destination. With that being said, I do have some things that I dislike about Hip Hop or more specifically the people who say they “love” it. I’m talking about the “neo-conservative” crusaders for what is “real” Hip Hop! You know the religious Hip Hop “purest” that draw a line between what they consider “real” and for lack of a single term “commercial/mainstream/jiffy-pop” or just plain ole “rap.”
Some argue that “real” Hip Hop has been regulated to the “underground” by major record companies who only want to exploit, control and further ruin Hip Hop culture. Today the so-called “real” Hip Hop has become synonymous with the “underground” so whatever is not played on mainstream radio and or video has become “underground” or “the real” Hip Hop and this, in my opinion, is utter bullshit! Now I would agree that the major corporations have taken control of Hip Hop from the financial perspective (funding, distribution, deciding which songs get put into regular radio/video rotation), but to arbitrarily call and or label the “underground” “real” and the “mainstream” “fake” is quite frankly bullshit.
