What has happened to Hip-Hop?

What has happened people? In the last 12 years, from 2000 until now. We have seen the quality of Hip-Hop go down with the years. What once started as just another form of music in the 1970's had really taken shape in the 1980's and the 1990's. It was more than just music, it was a culture, a lifestyle. Something you could look upon and actually get a sense of pride. But look at the scene of people who call themselves true to the Hip-Hop music and movement. What has happened to their idealism and to their willpower to make a change. Why are we all just hammering on each other. We all want to be better than another. Sales is what seems to matter to most emcees. The more you sale, the cooler you are, also in the underground. The underground can be considered as rotten as well, of course excluding a few emcees.

Hip-Hop was once this in the late 80's, early 90's:

KRS-One - Sound of da Police

Jedi Mind Tricks - I Who Have Nothing

Big L - Put it On

Big Pun - Capital Punishment

Lords of the Underground - Chief Rocka

But what has it become? Every reader of this agrees with us that the mainstream Hip-Hop is not what is was. The mainstream is not relevant to any one of us capable of independent thinking. Hip-Hop has been hijacked by the corporations, for the corporations. It's only goal is to brainwash it's listeners who then, buy the album of the corporate puppet on Itunes. They want to kill your soul and creativity so you will become a money hungry slave. It is a cycle, you listen to an artist who constantly points out his succes and his capitalist behavior and they expect you to start looking up to him or her. So that you start to transform your lifestyle into the one being propagated in the music and video. You start to spend and consume as a lifestyle and feed the machine. Who in their turn make music and movies again that refer to your new lifestyle of consuming.

This is what happened to Hip-Hop, compare this to the videos above!:

Lil Wayne - Lollipop ft. Static

Drake - Headlines

Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci

Gucci Mane - Everybody Looking

But do not get it mixed up, there is still good hiphop out there, being made every single day. The last hope for Hiphop out there was the underground. The Underground artists really propagate themselves in their music that they do not care about money, status or sales. But all about their message.
Yet, in the last few years we've seen underground hiphop go down the drain. It is a very small community that relies on it's support from the Internet, from independent minds worldwide. And the artists in this small community have accomplished to always, ALWAYS have internal beefs.
We understand that Beef is a part of Hip-Hop, but it seems to be the only part of underground Hip-Hop today, most of it happening on the internet. By people who talk a lot lets call it crap. Somehow human greed and the lust for material and status has taken over the underground. No names will be mentioned but the supporters of the Anti Agent Association do know who we are talking about. (If not, check our Facebook page)

It is a prison type of mentality that is dividing true underground hiphop into two different camps The kind of hiphop that is there to unite and to spread knowledge about a wide variety of subjects. And there is the type of hiphop that once started as a form of resistance against the industry but has become one big cercle jerk of egoist minds and souls and has experienced the same declination as mainstream hip-hop has.

We must come to realize that trying to get and maintain a monopoly position for yourself in the underground is the most hypocritical thing an emcee or an group of people can do. And especially if they do not get this position by music. But by beef. Lets put the beef aside, unite and fight as a group against the problems in the world and in the music.  United as One, Divided By Zero!



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We do not forgive.
We do not forget. 
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