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If Hip Hop is Our Culture, Where is the cultivation?
If you look into any rap lyrics or anything dealing with rap today we find little cultivation. We have little to grab hold of with substance. This is not to say the lyrical content of Kanye, Lupe, even Lil Wayne go unnoticed. This is to say that the areas of cultivation are killed off at the door of commercialism never to see the light of realism.
It’s never who has the best influence in Hip Hop at any given moment; it’s who is the biggest influence? And that’s always selected by dollar signs. Right now we see Soulja Boy in everything, Lil Wayne in everything else, but what about the constant contributions to the Genre as a whole by the likes of the pioneers or the Icons that took Hip Hop and transcended hip hop into the movies, TV or books.
A hit record could be made today just on beats alone, however if we copped the lyrics, they will have in them as much substance as the vials that same rapper is caught with at the routine traffic stop in any major city after a night out. Basically, only a mix of something to provide an instant high, then a let down. It leaves you hungry for more, yes, but when you go out and buy the CD or download it to your MP3, you really only listen to 3 maybe 4 out of 15 songs anyway.
Hip Hop as a whole, has a very big influence on our society and in the world, however the cultivation has to continue if our culture is going to continue to have the impact it has on the music and entertainment world.
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