[JPL] Re: For the future of hip hop, all that glitters is not gold teeth

[Arturo Gomez]

For those of who were around when hip hop came to be or for those who know
the origins of hip hop in the mid-to-late 1970s in the South Bronx-Boogie
Down, the irony of what is called hip hop today-particularly the sub genre
known as gangsta rap is that hip hop was created as an alternative to gang
violence. Instead of battling each other over drugs and turf, crews came to
battle each other on the dance floor of the parks and streets, breaking to
the new sounds of gifted deejays taking records including the wishy washy
disco sounds, isolating the break and creating non stop beats, this added to
the already existing grafitti culture, the last element of hip hop is
emceeing the proper term for rapping.

Two of the founders and creators of hip hop, grandmaster DJs Kool Herc and
Afrika Baambatta-founder as well of the Almighty Universal Zulu Nation that
stopped the proliferation of gang violence in the South Bronx through
education and hip hop have called out to the biggest names of contemporary
rap to come back to the hood, be a positive influence, contribute efforts
and donate money to the creation of a hip hop musuem and cultural center in
the birthplace of hip hop, an artform that has made their lifestyle of the
rich and famous a reality, all of the calls have remained unanswered, how
sad

Arturo