The Commodification of hip hop

[sHuFFLeZ]

great video, im using this for my paper on youth culture and hip hop

[kennboy1]

GOOD video, sad to see what was once hip hop down the drain due to corps and the gov and illuminati.

[amina70angel]

@kennboy1

what is illuminati ???

[kennboy1]

@amina70angel youtube it.

[amina70angel]

@kennboy1 OK 

[BlazeGreenwood]

The only things you can purchase to make yourself more down are music, books, art supplies or music equipment.

Nobody sold fat laces, kids made em.. so they could differentiate themselves from the images that were being marketed to them.

Run out and try to buy yourself the image of Lil Wayne or Jay Z or any of those cats, you are moving towards the mainstream and away from the originality that sparked this culture.

Broke9207

[TheOnlinebot]

^--klick hier

Poker Roboter in Action.....das ist Hip Hop !

Berlin Yeah

[CCCOBI]

50 cent isnt hip hop. He doesn't give a shit about hip-hop culture, just riding on the movement to make money.

[killbbob]

hip hop is deeper than any thing that happend on america soil its in a black mans soul understand this in our blood we are blessed to speak with soul and rhythm it cant die but it can be used for evil

[Alexred94]

Nas is right hip hop is dead!

If you cant see that mainstream rap isnt dead your fucking blind!

Its too commercialized!

[basket2224]

I don't think modern Hip-hop is bad, just most of the Hip-hop you hear on the radio. I think now is the golden age of underground Hip-hip with many talented independent artists some of them even getting radioplay and getting signed to big copanies

[thirdshift47]

Right now is the 'golden age of underground hip hop'?!!

How so?

[basket2224]

there has been an increase in the exposure underground artists get, especially with the internet. I'm not saying underground hip hop was bad before, I'm saying that it's now easier for an artist to get known

[thirdshift47]

I see.

Thanks.

[stillersgirl]

Hip hop is not about chains or bling or pot. It's a lifestyle. It evolved out of a lack of control over awareness of issues within communities in the Bronx in NYC. While we find it easy to blame big business's influence on hip hop, we must not forget that big business affects all aspects of our life, and that every society buys into the images we see on tv, movies, music, etc. "Not looking into the future" is a direct result of a LACK of funding in the American education system. Peace& Love

[nemesis700]

'there's more to this than shiny chains and bracelets' - Planetary feat Jedi Mind Tricks I Against I

[djfingersflores]

i feel sorry for these kids comin' up now thinkin' this new rap music is for real....

[Paz00ka]

im so passionate about this stuff. dangerously so, to the point where someone might have to restrain me if i ever see 50 cent on the street.

[dstrong999]

Good video. I wholeheartedly agree with it. It's also nice to see a lot of conscious sistas in that video. I'm a brotha and where I'm from you don't see or hear a lot of them.

[cacoonlovespiglet]

i love Brooke!!! :)

[SJW73069]

Very interesting. It was interesting to know that the people on the clip felt the way they did with old school hip hop versus modern/todays hip hop. I agree with them

[zulukidd]

"modern day hip hop to me is like ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmm..WACKKKKKKKKK!"

[GTOMessiah]

Yep and When I had my Cazals and Shells, I was doing it to fight Oppression. Let these kids buy what they want. We did it as kids. Jordans been out since 86.

[pagola]

too late hip hop is already gone