Chang and hip-hop

Chapter Eight: Do you agree with Chang that hip-hop has come to be the way an entire generation sees their world? Does that make it more or less, as the caller suggests, “mainstream”?

 

          My next blog will be based on Chang’s outlook that hip-hop is a way an entire generation has come to see their world, and the suggestion that hip-hop is now “mainstream”.

                                                          Chang and Hip-Hop
          

            I do agree with Jeff Chang that hip-hop has become a way that an entire generation views their world. Hip-hop has given many voiceless youth as well as adults a way to get their opinions and thoughts heard. It has also given them a way to address change, rebel against society views with words, not actions, and be productive in a money making empire. It is good to see the young and old alike being able to express their creative side and be proud of it.

            The average person has had a misconstrued view of exactly what hip-hop is. Hip-hop is now evolving as basically a way of self-expression. This genre of music can be associated as a “Culture” all of its own due to bringing people together regardless of race or religion. Hip-hop has crystallized a multiracial generation and has definitely transformed views of the mainstream music lovers.

              No matter how a person feels, the notoriety of hip-hop has reshaped and become mainstream. Most people hate change, but music evolves just as everything does. In the 1960s it was peace love and the “hippie” pushing the movement. Hip-hop is no different. It’s a genre of music that unites generations and tells what a lot of people are feeling that don’t stand up and say it themselves. It’s an expression of one’s self about views of society in an artful way.

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