Hip Hop Drag

The more Hip Hop is discussed the more perhaps I understand it.  It has become the mainstream of music venue of not only black people but white people and women as well are using this type of poetry mixed with music.  Mr. Chang discusses on KQUED public radio The Forum the growing role that hip hop has played in society today.  Hip Hop has been identified with inner city turmoil but over the years as the inner city society has moved to the suburbs it is now in many different cultures. Hip Hop, according to Chang, speaks of politics, cultures and political activism. Dwayne the caller on the show believes that hip hop has become so mainstream and prominent that it has overshadowed other types of black forms of music.  Another caller, Cecil, thinks that opportunities for a black person to get into the business of writing or music is the problem and hip hop was the answer as hip hop started as an oral tradition on how to tell stories. On NPR this morning, they introduced a new website similar to Wikipedia but involving hip hop lyrics, http://rapgenius.com/ which explains rap lyrics.  Even NPR thinks hip hop or rap is important enough to have a discussion about it but also to have assistance on understanding the words and what the words or phrasing means. 

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R503151000