what is real hip-hop

[ayo4yayo]

Smif N Wessun = Hip Hop

Lil Wayne & Bruno Mars = Hip POP

 

[LOOe92510]

"Real" is relative. If someone can relate to 2 Chainz, he's probably the realest out to them. If someone can relate to Mac Miller, he's the realest out to them. Boom-bap beats and underground appeal don't make it hip-hop to me, I just call that contemporary.

 

[Nuttkase]

Didn't we just have this same thread like a month or so ago?

 

[Jake]

its all relative

 

[Nuttkase]

its all relative to what's in my backpack

Fixed.

 

[Jake]

Fixed.

hahaha

yeah the real answer to this question is: whatever jake listens to

 

[ThaG]

Smif N Wessun = Hip Hop

Lil Wayne & Bruno Mars = Hip POP

Correct

 

[recklessofgilaz]

Fuck Genres I like music

 

[Eunuch]

 

[illuminati_guy]

Didn't we just have this same thread like a month or so ago?

every rap board have this same thread every month tho

 

[prodigy91]

 

[Stealth]

I define hip hop like I define porn. I know it when I come across it.

 

[JLMACN]

Hiphop is a lifestyle


not a fashion statement

 

[0R0]

It's really not a lifestyle tho.

 

[Count_Slapula]

I think trend is the word you are looking for, not lifestyle.

In 10 years fans of hip hop and artists will be doing entirely different shit.

 

[joe_kicka$$]

Hiphop is a lifestyle


not a fashion statement

hip-hop is the clothes you wear also if you look at interviews from the pioneers they say it

 

[illuminati_guy]

krs one added fashion as one of extra hip hop elements

 

[ThaG]

Unfortunately, you are incorrect. Both of these songs are hip-hop. There are several sub-genres of hip-hop, however (pop to gangsta).

Real hip-hop is hip-hop that the artist made with the purpose of expressing himself. Fake hip-hop is hip-hop that was made mostly with generating sales in mind and that calculation figured prominently in the creative process. Note that this definition makes no reference whatsoever to style, substance or quality. I have very good reasons to think that the tracks I posted are classified well by such a definition

 

[Dhadnot]

all rap is hip hop, just some rap isn't made or sold in the spirit of hip hop as a culture.

 

[Stony Gwynn]

"REAL" HIP HOP IS SOMETHING THE OLD HEADS USE TO DOWNPLAY THE MUSIC THAT'S OUT TODAY... BY SAYING TODAY'S MUSIC ISN'T REAL HIP THEY TRY TO LESSEN THE VALUE OF THE MUSIC BECAUSE IT'S NOT WHAT THEY WERE DOING BACK IN THE DAY... JUST FURTHER SHOWS HOW MUCH AT ODDS WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER WHERE WE HAVE TO DOWNPLAY MUSIC FROM OUR PEOPLE BECAUSE THE OLDER GENERATION DOESN'T THINK IT'S REAL... BUT THATS LIKE ANYTHING ELSE... OLDER FOLKS DON'T LIKE THE WAY YOUNGER FOLKS GO ABOUT DOING ANYTHING...