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Originally Posted by joderu95
My god that is an exhaustive introduction. Well done.
This is a genre that I really loved when I was younger and I would like to get enjoy again. But it has changed, evolved I suppose into something that generally doesn't interest me. It seems, and maybe I'm wrong here, that the stories in the songs have deteriorated and the topics are pretty much the same from rapper to rapper. Lots of glorification of pimping (which just cracks me up because this has always been a punchline not a badge of honor), objectification of the female of the species, ostentatious jewelry and lots of gold studded canines (both the tooth and dog).
In short it has left me behind and that is ok. When Run D.M.C., N.W.A., Ice-T, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Ice Cube and others like that became outdated I did too.
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I have to disagree with you here, he who seeks will find- it's not too hard to find hip-hop that hasn't been infected with the virus of corporate B.S. I dunno, maybe you just mean the hip-pop played so often on the radio but by no means has hip-hop become exclusively pimps and ho's.
Try: Mos Def ("Black on Both Sides" is one of my personal favs but don't bother giving his other two albums a full listen), Blackalicious, The Roots, Common (old-school stuff and "Be"), Lupe Fiasco, etc... there's plenty of variety.