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Originally Posted by djnemo65

I love Hiphop - in fact I wrote my senior thesis in college on it's early development in New York - so I tend to get defensive when people attempt to blame it for social problems which exist independent of it. The problem is this: Hiphop wasn't foisted on the black community, it grew organically in response to worsening economic conditions and declining urban standards of living.

While Hiphop may have provided a style and discourse for articulating the everyday struggle, it didn't create the struggle. The problems in black communities are, were, and will continue to be economic first.

Okay I'm not crapping on hip hop, cause I'm Black and I've grown up in not the best conditions, so I understand where it's coming from and of course the base of all problems are economic.

And yes, old school hip hop DID focus on economic struggles. I respect old school hip hop. Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, I'm all with that. But I really don't think the bitches and the hos and waving my tech-9 around have anything to do with growing up in poverty.