Hip Hop Culture Miscontrued

Hip Hop itself is its own culture. While it is primarily associated with North American Culture, it has become such a world wide phenomenon that nearly every country has experienced some sort of Hip Hop Culture.

Hip Hop started in the 80s through the evolution of funk music. With its origins based upon funk music/dancing, Hip Hop soon evolved into is own culture with party beats, b-boying, and smooth lyrical rhymes. While many Hip Hop artists such as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common still to this day remain true to Hip Hop origins, Hip Hop has become very mainstream changing our culture.

The evolution of Hip Hop into the mainstream changed hip hop music and its original form. No longer would Hip Hop Music be about love, pain, and life in general. It soon became about guns, the police, drugs, and sex. These songs had such an energetic and "party" like feel that it soon swept into mainstream media.

This new and evolved culture began shaping and changing many youths social lives and in the process destroying what Hip Hop culture was actually about. This new evolved version of Hip Hop Culture has given off the false impression that its music is supposed to be about sex, drugs and violence.




While Hip Hop has changed there are many artists who stay true to the original form of Hip Hop. These artists are barely recognized by the average citizen and therefore are unable to fully portray what Hip Hop is truely about. The media has promoted this new evolution of Hip Hop causing the public to have a narrow mind when it comes to Hip Hop Culture.

By: Christian Julal