RHH: I already know many?

[#LoMd]

People of my generation talk about how kids in my generation don't know history of hip-hop and I agreed but it really struck me when this kid who listens to the mainstream stuff said he's never heard a rap song with meaning, AND SAID TUPAC AND BIGGIE FOUNDED HIP-HOP. The reason I post this because I'm confused on how little they know, most rock or country, etc. fans I know actually know the history of that genre. How come in rap, so little is known in the mainstream?

[Dâ„¢]

shrug. Early forms of rock honestly sound better than the early forms of hip hop, so I can see why people would want to listen to early rock but not early hip hop.

[Beni, resurrected]

your question is a mess frankly to the point that I'm not even sure what you're asking.

[Tyler]

Follow me on twitter fool

[Tj]

Peace. As far as the mainstream goes I think everyone sticks with trends. So if they stick with trends and what's hot, they're never looking at the history of Hip Hop. They're trying to keep up with a trend, why would they? For the folks that don't exactly follow trends but who want the truth or a message or meaning, they have to go back and fight that Hip Hop music. Even I want to go back and learn our American history on my own terms, not on schools terms but what I want to learn about history. Because it seems like the people of the past, Martin Luther King Jr, Huey P. Newton, and others in our history not only had a good grasp on American history but other countries as well and we as a nation and people don't have that anymore. If you don't know where you came from, you don't know where you're headed.

Peace.