#thecheckin: Ep.23 - The Crucifixion of Hip-Hop
But my frustration that's coming in is that it's 2023, and we've gotten books and essays and documentaries and all these types of different things that explain the psychology of why this music is the way it is. And now suddenly we're pretending that with 50 years of the music, we're coinciding this anniversary with a negative input that acts as if hip hop has done nothing but negativity and it's completely wrong
Guadalupe Ospina
@GOD1forever · 3:32
And that's why I like old school hip hop better than the modern hip hop because they all had their own style and they spoke about different things in their music. Like Tupac, for example. He had songs where he spoke about sex, drugs, violence. And then he has songs where he spoke about positive things and how the community is being affected and how the government don't give a damn about us. But nowadays, you don't hear that
I'll give you an example because you said that it's not a lot of good hip hop coming out. There's still several great albums coming out, several great artists, like I said to Pimper Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar, a female rapper by the name of rhapsody, we've seen everybody from Jay Z to Nas come out with more introspective perspectives of their music as they get older. We have immortal technique. We still have most. We still have Blackstar
But no one should be sitting on the 50th anniversary of hip hop and asking, why hasn't a hospital been made? Why hasn't after school learning programs been created from a culture that was only meant to entertain? Rock and roll is not held to the same standard as hip hop. And you could argue that rock and roll has contributed to mass shooters and school shootings and all these things
I'm not going to lie. I got like two minute into that, into this comment or this response and just wanted to come here and drop this receipt for you so they all know, so everybody knows. And I'll throw it down here. Just being probably the only white christian man that will respond and say that, in my opinion, in my humble opinion, one that doesn't mean anything to anyone ever, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar are examples that every man should follow
We have developed that over the last 200 years, and it is a beautiful representation of what our nation represents. Yes. So you got all these people just being mad because I'll be honest with you, I think honestly, the problem is that white people don't understand hip hop. And I say that as a person that if I get in a conversation with you, boy, golly gee whiz, I'm going to learn really quick that I don't even understand hip hop