The Roots - Masters of War

:AppalachianMan420:'s comment
is such generically perceived bullshit
hip hop was first DJs
Kool Herc, G.W. Theodore,.. beginning because it sounded dope
it's huge and it does do everything but it didn't begin as protest music..WTF?, you pulled that out of no where
the commercialized stuff has never been liked much.
don't take a little fraction of pop culture hiphop and use that to justify all hiphop
that's musical prejudice, lol
sorry but
the comment is retarded

oh, yea
The Roots are mega iLL

Of course, you're right that hip-hop's musical lineage begins with people like Kool Herc, but many of the better old school MC's (KRS-one, Chuck D, etc) would tell you that their lyrical inspirations were people like the Last Poets, Gil Scot-Heron and the Watts Prophets.
Maybe that's what the Appalachian dude was referring to... That sort of conscious street rap that made it onto vinyl - that's what I think of when I think early "rap". Not hip-hop, but rap.

but also you (people) can't select the garbage rappers on the radio and say it's all money, bitches etc. rhetoric if you have not really inspected the depths and lengths of it
hiphop spawned in so many directions
i guess it just annoys me to see people sum it up from such a small fraction
it still exist and it still drops on vinyl
lol, I still buy it
"......went from battle rap to gun talk like we aint notice the change...yeah, right"

is that black thought singing???

Free Palestine and help defeat the last colonial power on earth

?uestlove is the man

These guys are for real. Hiphop has so much potential, but has lost it's way with booty and bling and bustin caps. Hiphop began as protest music against conditions in the inner cities, but The Roots seem to produce music that protests how other artists have really destroyed the genre with materialism and sexism. They actually have great, original instrumentation and a much strong social conscience.
I'm not a big hip-hop fan - because of the reasons I've just outlined - but Roots are incredible.

Then you must not know wassup with real hip hop then..
oh and that video on ur page is the laaaameest shit ive ever seen.. haahh.