Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

The ignorant white guy at end of the video cracked me up. Do people even say that still??

Yeah but you can't blame the CORPS. At the end of the day it's the people buying the product (everybody) that allow this shit quality to live on. If nobody bought it, the corps wouldn't produce it. It's the avg American that buys it and sends the message that this is what they want.

true, it is brainwashing and part of it has also to do with television and what these companies are trying to advertise and sell us on tv and like i said earlier if you had read what i posted i also believe it is up to the people to start doing something about it, i dont just blame corporations but both! they both play a part in this.

fuck them bitchies nah...kill them bitchies

This guy is an idiot. We all know nigger equates to black people, bitches doesn't equate to black women, the history of the word is tottally different and ever changing. If a rapper is talking about bitches and hos and you take offence guess what...your probably a bitch, ho or a women with insercurities.

Hurt's film absolutely spotlights the fact that major labels and big business came into hip-hop and turned it into what we see today. Watch the entire film and not simply the trailer.

Why did you remove your last comment, you made an excellent point. Brainwashing only works to a certian degree. Ultimately it is the audience that makes the final choice on what they will spend their money on.
It is all about personal responsibility.
We have to accept the choices we make and deal with them or their will never be any change for the better.

sorry wanted to change it and forgot to repost but yea it is up to us the people to tell them we've had enough of their shyt

This is very true. You have to look hard to find anything real nowadays. Every musical group out there is only concerned with money and thus falls back repeating the same default routines.
I would also liike to mention country music, when has gone thru such a fascist metamorphism, that it is no longer country but rock (since that brought in more of a profit).
But this is our fault. As the audience we buy the tickets and cds, we perpetuate this.