Is Hip Hop Black Owned?

So there is this grand debate that Hip Hop belongs to black people. And though I am certainly not racist I have to agree.

Not in the physical sense but certainly in the emotional sense. It was created as a way for people of color, primarily Black people, to voice the injustices that were happening in their communities.

It was the one way for Black people to be certain that they were heard. But what are we, Black people, really doing with it now?

We stopped using it as a vehicle to be heard and began using it as a get rich quick scheme. It seems like we lost sight of what “Fight The Power” really was intended to mean. We gave up on understanding of who we are. We stopped finding importance in using it with a purpose.

What happen to the days when Hip Hop was heavily influenced by politics? Was that all washed down the drain when being a crack baby became a popular thing to be? Did we really allow ourselves to be washed away with a influx of government implemented crack into our communities? Did our self worth and self interest get washed away forever in crack pipes and cocaine baggies? Because you have got to see that that was our distraction!

But here is the irony… After drugs were used to distract us we now glorify it!!!!!

How can we be so fixated on how it belongs to US when we no longer respect it? It seems as if somewhere along the line it has been forgotten that Hip Hop was a culture with a purpose. People have decided to make a disgusting mess of it. Everyone wants to be a Bobby Shmurda and forgot all about Public Enemy! We were suppose to be voicing our opinions and views. We were suppose to be showing people the truths of our lives and why we are the resilient people that we are. People gave up on the culture, hip hop, and happily became rappers. And please, can we stop confusing hip hop artist’s and rappers!? People choose to rap about b*tches, selling crack, f–king and a host of other things that only further the stigmas of the Black community. And after feeding into the ignorance they for some odd reason find themselves angry at the fact that people believe us to be all of these ignorant things! But you can’t be angry at what you so happily perpetuate.

So after we do all we can to ruin what hip hop was intended to be, we get mad at people who are not Black for loving it and embracing the true culture the way that we should. We say that they are trying to be Black but we clearly don’t give a sh*t about being Black. How can you? We diminish everything that is so great about being who we are and have the balls to get made at others for picking up the toys we broke and threw to the side. One mans garbage is another mans treasure.

If you want to keep Hip Hop it wouldn’t hurt to love it a little bit and bring it back to what it originally was. I for one am certainly tired of this sad sack of sh*t you artist are happy to keep producing!!!!