Re: The Return of The Boom Bap

Resurrection of Hip hop

Is hip hop coming back to its essences? Many of the artist of today are not from the school of real Mcing but the old school of Mcing is starting to stand up for what hip hop is so that the corporation and the major record companies don't take all the glits and the money from the folks that buil this shit up ya dig!!!!

Commerical appeal is what younger artist are concernced about not leaving hip hop to the next generation of artist that come along.

Tribe Called Quest. Common. Gangstarr. Rakim. Nas. Slick Rick. The Pharcyde. De La Soul. The list could go on and on and be up for debate as to who the illest of all time is, but that’s not what this is about. Originally hip-hop was an outlet for MC’s to hype up their DJ, spit about their neighborhood, and with artist like Public Enemy, talk about what’s going on in society in general. Over the years, this common thread of hip-hop fell to the pits of the underground and was taking over by media giants controlling what artist released to the masses. At the same time, “gangster” rap emerged and began to fill the air waves with drugs, violence and hoes and people soon forgot what real hip-hop was when they were in the club shouting “To the Windoooows … . To the waaaaaaaalls … Till the sweat drips off my … . .”

As commercial rap is here to stay, young and new artist are beginning to emerge from the cracks of the once called underground scene. But, who is really “underground.” It’s just a matter of time, with consistent persistence that their voice will begin to be heard by the masses and they are now in the realm of “commercial.” You can go back to when the Black Eyed Peas turned pop or when Jay-Z had to “dumb-down” his music to make it appealing to the masses, after Reasonable Doubt.