Hip-Hop!!

I love music. Majority of the music that I listen to now is influenced by hip-hop. You know, Run DMC, MC Hammer, Tupac, Dougie Fresh. All these people are the platform for today's music.There are four elements of hip-hop. They are: Graffiti, Rap, Break-dancing, and DJing. Graffiti is looked at in such a negative way and always has been that way. Its seen as vandlizing and territorizing when really its art. Just because its big, bold, and not in a museum does not mean that it should not be respected. People look forward to graffiti. For some, that may be as far in the art industry that they will get and who are we to under estimate them?
Rap. Hahaha. Rap is looked at as a stereotypical feature, meaning when most people hear or think rap, they think Black people. The reason being I would assume is because blacks are the founders of rap music. However, this does not restrict rapping to one race. A great example, Eminem. My favorite rap artist. Absolutely postively love him. Eminem is one of the last real rap artists today. His lyrics actually have meaning to them unlike some others whose names I won't mention. The evolution of rap is crazy. It has gone from the Sugarhill Gang's:
 have you ever went over a friends house to eat
and the food just aint no good
i mean the macaroni's soggy the peas are mushed
and the chicken tastes like wood
so you try to play it off like you think you can
by sayin that youre full
and then your friend says momma he's just being polite
he aint finished uh uh that's bull
so your heart starts pumpin and you think of a lie
and you say that you already ate
and your friend says man there's plenty of food
so you pile some more on your plate
while the stinky foods steamin your mind starts to dreamin
of the moment that it's time to leave
and then you look at your plate and your chickens slowly rottin
into something that looks like cheese to Lil Wayne's:
Shawty said the ____ that she with ain't s___
Shawty said the ____ that she with ain't this
Shawty said the ____ that she with can't hit
But shawty I'm a hit it hit it like I can't miss
And he can't do this
And he doesn't do that
Shawty need a a refund, need a bring that ____ back
Just like a refund I make her bring that a__ back
And she bring that a__ back
Because I like thatBIG DIFFERENCE!
Break-dancing is still here. It's still amazing and the evolution of break dance was not nearly as disappointing as the evolution of rap. Break dance now is just more modern but the concepts are still the same. I wonder how breaking managed to survive but rap couldn't...
Last but not least, DJing! Andddd...it has changed. DJing used to actually be scratching up records but not DJing has been modernize by technology. You can make whatever beat, sound, noise, remix, you want on a computer with the right material downloaded. I guess you can say the concept of DJing is still the same but the way it is delivered is different.
Hip-Hop is not alll the way dead, yet. Its just...modernized.