| What is hip hop? This question has been | | | | to be placed on standby. You can go to any |
| posed to many a person and the answer varies | | | | mall and see the youth wearing the baggiest |
| as much as the people in our society vary. | | | | clothes that are barely hanging on them for |
| When most people think of the term hip hop | | | | dear life. All these things come from hip |
| they tend to focus on the musical aspect of | | | | hop.Don't get me wrong. Hip hop is not only |
| it. Much like with rock and roll in the 60s | | | | about the rebellious nature of young people. |
| parents figured that this music was simply a | | | | There are many accomplished clean cut adults |
| form of rebellion for their children and that | | | | who should be considered every bit as much |
| it wouldn't even last past its infancy. | | | | hip hop as their young counter parts. The |
| Thirty plus years later and not only is hip | | | | message that any person in their 30s grew up |
| hop still alive but it is quite the power | | | | listening to is a much different one then |
| house in terms of the economy. If there is | | | | what is being circulated today. The rap |
| something that needs to be sold and your | | | | music of the seventy's and eighties was about |
| target demographic is under the age of 35, | | | | self empowerment and making something of your |
| there is not a more powerful tool then hip | | | | lives. Many kids in the eighties would have |
| hop.You would not have to look any further | | | | had no where to turn if it wasn't for after |
| then your own children to see the effects of | | | | school programs consisting of break dancing |
| hip hop on our present society. Every era | | | | and other aspects of hip hop. We have |
| had its form of expression! I don't care if | | | | doctors, lawyers and other successful |
| it's the fifty's, sixties or seventies but | | | | individual who grew up not only listening to |
| it's always been that teenagers have a | | | | hip hop but living it.When I hear the word |
| different way of dressing, dancing and | | | | fad, I quickly think of the way a person |
| talking then their adult counterparts. This | | | | might dress or the music they may listen to. |
| new era is no different. How many times have | | | | Hip hop is partially about those two things |
| you seen or heard your child talking to their | | | | but it's also about the way you speak, the |
| friend's right in front of you and felt as | | | | way you move and most importantly the way in |
| thought they were speaking a foreign | | | | which you live your life. If hip hop is a |
| language? Turn on your television and you'll | | | | fad someone forgot to tell entire nations |
| see these same youth doing dance moves that | | | | that they need to find a new one! Hip hop is |
| seem as though if an adult were to attempt | | | | 30 years strong and still growing! |
| these same moves that an ambulance would have | | | | |