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