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To be perfectly honest, you have Rap and then you have Hip-Hop. Two different genres to point out because they are so judged as one sound of music. As to say Rock & Roll and Heavy Metal are the same makes it an ignorant statement. Now the difference of both genres (Rap & Hip-Hop) is simply: the urban lifestyle & work of a dollar. Hip-Hop is simply about the struggle, poverty, and anything in the nature of being unjustified. Which generally rose from the urban community which is now around the entire world.

Now, Rap is the work of merely the dollar. Speaking on jewelry, cars, drugs, violence as if it's a positive message when it's quite the opposite. While as well degrading women to the public as a image to seem cool which isn't. I listen to both and to say Rap is Hip-Hop or vice-versa isn't the truth to speak. Hip-Hop is merely your artists like: Nas, Kanye West, Talib Kweli, so on so forth. Rap is merely your artists like: 50 Cent, Ludacris, T.I., Yung Joc, so on so forth.

Now, to say that a Rap Artist can't make Hip-Hop records isn't true. As likely vice-versa too. But my question stands, is hip-hop really hip-hop anymore? OR, is Hip-Hop being publicized the way it should? Again, these are my views & opinions I speak out loud to voice who I am as a human being as to being an artist too. Hip-Hop is getting rather slept on than being in the spotlight as it once was. In my opinion. You have records like "Laffy Taffy", which was a big record but wasn't a hip-hop record. As to say, Nas song, "Hero (f. Keri Hilson)", didn't get any type of recognition of being the better record (I should say myself). Because it wasn't much a "club" song which would draw more attention than being what it was. Which was speaking on the truth.

So when did being straight forward to the public or "real" and speak nothing more than the truth to the public become the wrong doing to the genre? The consumer who wants the truth out of an artist but buy the B.S. instead. That shows hypocrisy of that person. So why say one thing but at the end of the day you go the other route? That's part of my question too. To end this discussion from my point of view, I hope change comes for our young generation. Who looks up to the Rapper's and Emcee's as role models. When they have no one to look up to but the very person who makes money by either feeding lies to them or speaks the truth.