OPINION Does HipHop Music Reflect The Community or Does The Music Influence The Community?

Dwayne said:
90s was still mostly destructive music.

Also, the 90s was so much more violent in real life

As of right now, damn near every song being destructive while we’re living in the least violent times is ass backwards

I see a lot of folks trying to shift the blame to everything but it’s the artist. They chose to make this music. I don’t care who promotes. It’s still 100% the artist

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90s still had a balance tho. Yes, there was the destructive shit, but some of the biggest hits of the 90's came from Hammer, Tag Team, Sir Mix A Lot, The Fugee's, Puffy+Mase, Luke, 95 South, and groups like those that weren't on that violent gangsta drug sellin shit. Yeah Dre and Snoop was out there, but there was other shit too. Gotta remember: The 90's was prime backpack era, so the lyrical-miracle cats like Ras Kass, Common Sense, everybody from Hiero, Hobo Junction, Likwid crew, or Lyricist Lounge crews on the west coast, DITC, Boot Camp, Hit Squad/Def Squad, and crews in between on the East Coast were all popular as hell during that era. Miami Bass rappers and DJ's were pretty big back then as well. Plus, You had Rakim going gold on his solo joint, KRS ONE dropping popular releases under his name instead of BDP... There was still a hell of a lot of diversity in hip hop in the 90's.

Now, whether you listened to any of that is purely up to your tastes at the time.
 
Early days of hip hop was was just getting the party started. Then it became a means of showing the world what was going on in the streets: we're struggling out here, people killing each other, people selling drugs in our neighborhoods, etc.

Somewhere down the line, those drug dealers got the record deals. Some of them told their truth, some exaggerated their involvement, others downright fabricated those stories.

It made for good business so others pretended to be those drug dealers. It was no longer a reflection of life but creation of fantasy.

The art imitates life imitates art debate has been around forever. I think the expansion of the industry pushes more toward life imitating art nowadays simply because everybody isn't living, most are just watching.
 
This is the part of the 80's and 90's being glossed over.



This was big shit back inna day. This joint was popular as hell and could be heard bangin up and down the block. Black folks really gravitated towards afrocentricity back in those days and it was a net plus for the community.







 
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Goldie said:
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@Dwayne @Freeman

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BlackRain said:
If this is attempting to boil down Black culture to the perception of hip hop then she's already way off
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They don't care. Black music represents all the worst things about black culture... According to some chick, and her trusty nigga Co signs.

Plus side, you won't see any of these people if you decide to go to a concert 🤷🏿‍♂️
 
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