Hip Hop in Review: Part II Mainstream rap & women

In the documentary "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes" filmmaker Byron Hurt takes a critical look at Hip Hop.
What we hope to do here is offer some feedback on the show and take a closer look at how mainstream Hip Hop got to where it is today and discuss what we need to understand about the images and messages in Hip Hop music.
Guests:
Courtney Morris, researcher who studies the impact of Hip Hop on black women.
Mahdi Fard Muhammad, author of "It's Time: The Race Is Over To Open A Black Man's Eyes" and director of the Relationship Fitness Center.
D. Solo, host and executive producer of the Hip Hop show "Street Flava"

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[MrBoomBap05]

yo wemen! mainstream r&b fag rappers clown all of you! listen to underground hip hop. those emcees got better things to say. pop rappers talk about shootin & bitches. real emcees got soulful beats & better rhymes. pop rappers rap over wack synths & stupin r&b hooks! fuck mainstream! mainstream rappers are the bitches!

[robinlue2008]

hip hop isn't dead. if you want real hip hop listen to underground more often. i recommend you listen to IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE he makes the mainstream rappers look like shit. trust me he represents something a whole lot more meaningful than bein iced out. how good is he? he's krs1 times 50. CHANGED MY LIFE!!!! :D

[boboshantist]

We need to shut the fuck up and take control of hip hop we have white people and Arabs and Chins investing millions in hip hop and getting billions out and we are killing ourselves because this is what white folk believe is supposed to happen since the dawn of America. Most of you black Americans are pathetic I know you know this already but please take notes from the reggae culture on pride.

[corcovadoquelindo]

I listen to Nas Illmatic every day. And his Demo song Deja Vu. When I was in high school I used to listen to the mainstream stuff, but I'm finding I'm deleting that crap and exploring other music with meanings, like Pink Floyd, Sting and the Police, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin...I can go on. And people may say I'm corny or whatever but I'm not selling my soul to fit in, and that's what's wrong with a lot of the music today.

[Sboy200]

@MrBoomBap05 hay, man :D what would u recommend?

[OBC00]

@MrBoomBap05 Amen !

[UNDERGROUNDGIRLS109]

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[IceManLikeGervin]

Music directly imitates the passions, states of the soul, when one listens 2 music that imitates certain passion, he becomes imbued with the same passion & if over a long time he habitually listens 2 the kind of music that rouses ignoble passions his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form. If 1 listens 2 the wrong kind of music they will become the wrong kind of person but conversely if they listen 2 the right kind of music they will TEND 2 become the right kind of person. Aristotle

[AntiSatanAndAdDajjal]

yes maistream hip-hop absolutely shit

[spliffizzle]

well dj solo says these rappers are reporting on whats actually happening in the hood. I dont think thats true because mainstream hip hop goes back to when there wasn't so much violence. Overtime, it's become for people a reinforcement for violence and oppression. These media outlets in control of these images are contributing to and promote violence and oppression. It's all mind control this music. If you want music in your life, make music yourself. Immortal technique is mind control too

[lilgrim5back]

alot of underground rap shows us what goes on in the world today.

[lilgrim5back]

mainstream rap is the reason for so many young parents and the reason for young males not wanting to take care of the kid he brought into the world because he watched that video of a half naked girl in the rap video.

[Kurugen]

that Tipdrill video was dope

[daggakid90]

@ShonWonPowerMix

money

[ThoughtseizeBeats]

Nice!

[ShonWonPowerMix]

Why do women agree to appear in the videos?

[uLy310]

@solo13th not even.

[VirtualWrestling]

i'm a little cunt

[solo13th]

@MrBoomBap05 I love Underground hip-hop artist like Immortal Technique,but they throw the words "Bitch and Ho" around like any other rapper,so get off your fucking high horse

[solo13th]

@MrBoomBap05 I love Underground hip-hop artist like Immortal Technique,but they throw the words "Bitch and Ho" around like any other rapper.

[JayZabalaTV]

@MrInfamous1984 Yo ma man. Listen to Lupe Fiasco. The dude lived in an area that is full of everything that involves "the hood". He's mainstream. But he's mad real. Just listen to him.

[JayZabalaTV]

@MrBoomBap05 C'mon dude how you gonna diss hip hop. no matter what subgenre it is, it's still hip hop. We can't dislike a form of a genre overall you apparently enjoy. I'm sure underground rappers talk about A LOT of things that goes on in "the streets". If we're going to be honest, I can talk about that fro mthe experiences I ahve from living in "the streets" for 12+ years. there ain't nothin' wrong with hip hop the way it is.

[yabitchonmydikk]

you want hip hop to review REVIEW THIS watch?v=3_jAlJDBq1Y

[STEPASAUR]

its hard for myself and a lot of longserving hip hop heads to digest how mainstream rap has messed up the culture, we spent so long trying to keep it out of the mainstream for these precise reasons, we knew it would twist it

[dirtyplaya]

hip-hop is dead commercially.... thanks to the labels an other people in power..but its still alive an well there still break dancin,graffiti,DJ's an ofcourse real MC's...its just back underground where it started...hopefullly one day it will b seen on tv again...jus not anytime soon :/

[MrInfamous1984]

Fuck mainstream real talk, it nothing but a bunch of phony rappers fronting like they lived in the hood knowing they punks