Untitled Opinions

Hip Hop is supposed to be the culture of change. But is it just a culture with restricted boundaries?

Hip Hop's sound has changed from when it originated, and that's fine and great. BUT let's talk about when up and coming rappers put out new music and are being told, "it doesn't sound Hip Hop" or "it's not a club banger", well then what should the new artists do? Lose their identity for some dollars? Of course not! I would say just do you and make music for your fan base and yourself.

From the outside looking in, people don't know that in order to be in the "Hip Hop circle" you have to dress a certain way or an artist's music has to sound a specific type of way just to fit in. Hip Hop is somewhat like a high school cafeteria in my opinion. And if you love Hip Hop and understand the content of Hip Hop then you know exactly what I'm talking about.....For example, I remember having a conversation with one of my followers on Twitter about this exact topic. I tweeted out, "Childish Gambino is a better singer than Drake. #FACT". One of my followers said, "Drake can sell a R&B album and it can go straight to number one". I said that might be true, but Gambino can still sing better than him. And then my followers said, "Nobody knows Childish Gambino, he is not even on the radio". Long story short, all my follower did was list all of Drake's accomplishments and how popular he was. I never said Gambino was more talented or popular then Drake. I actually don't care how popular both of them were to be honest. All I wanted to know was if he sing better than Childish Gambino.

People don't even see how talented Childish Gambino or Tyler The Creator really are because they don't dress a certain way, talk a certain way, act a certain way, or hang out with the top rappers in the industry. But does that make them different or "lame rappers"? When artists like Tyler or Gambino are being casted out it makes me ask myself,  why is it that a powerful and influential culture (Hip Hop) won't accept rappers like Tyler The Creator? Hip Hop can make Miley Cyrus twerk and Wolf Blitzer dougie but if a rapper doesn't rap about urban things he/she are cased out.

There are rules and regulations to Hip Hop, and a lot of dos and donts. People want Kanye West to stick to rapping and producing and not focus of designing clothes because designing clothes "is not Hip Hop". What kind of logical thinking is that? Let the man design and rap because we are ALL going to buy it! We bought the Yeezys didn't we? Why should the individuals in Hip Hop be abel to put people in a boxes? The more boxes there are the more people are not going to care anymore.

Hip Hop is bigger than what it really is. If people noticed how much influence and power it and stop putting artists in boxes, Hip Hop could be only ONE genre of music.

Even though I'm upset about the restrictions some artists go though, I will always love Hip Hop to death. In my opinion, Hip Hop is so strong that not a genre of music anymore. It's clothes, the way an individual talks, a social status, and etc. Hip Hop dictates what's in and what's not. Hip Hop is Pop culture.