What does Hip Hop contribute to this World? by Krista Keating, at Revolutionize Yo' Block 10:59 am / 16 October 2008
Defining what Hip Hop contributes to the world is in and of itself taking a political position. Hip Hop is revolutionary through its existence alone. The higher context of the culture (the things you and I share without speaking because we have an understanding of Hip Hop) is also ingrained with counter-cultural ideas.
However, it is a culture born from American culture: a culture rich with global ideas. American cultural is not intriscially the white man's culture anymore. It is OUR culture, the people's culture, all of the people. WE get to decide what to do with this world. It is our turn now, we have progressed as a nation, a human race, etc. We identified our oppressor, millenia. We are not peasants. We are the New World Order. And in the Bible we screw it up. But just like we have learned through the ages: we will repeat history despite ourselves. But that is not stupidity, that is humanity. Even if we die trying, lets die helping each other. Let's die of old age.
We already know it's a conspiracy. George Bush and Dick Cheney's whole administration existed to exploit the American People. It's a conspiracy. We got Enron'd. We can say it. They took advantage of our emotions. I don't want the mainstream to shy away from it anymore. The administration exploited the American People. They allowed our domesticity to fall to pieces. They left levees unsecured to wash out whole communities of people. They put young people, teenagers, overseas and into Iraq and let them die over a lie they told to gain control of the oil fields, so they could in turn use our oil dependency against us, while claiming it was for our own good, because they were fighting terror. The causalities of the war in Iraq reach into the 9th ward of New Orleans. But like Enron, they do not care about the exposure of the exploitation and abuse of power because they're gone now, they have very little power, theoretically speaking. But really, they have no integrity to sacrifice so they are already comfortable without it, even in public. They are the evil they claimed to be fighting. These are not decent men. These are Masons. They will sacrifice each other. These are crooks and gangsters and we should have the power to let that be known. Oh wait...enter Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is not afraid of the truth. He does not shy away from possibility or from reality. He is a man of integrity coupled with innovation. Barack Obama is not afraid of the streets. He is also not afraid of the revolution. He is not just a president. He is a political and cultural leader. Barack Obama has the ability to lead Americans and the Globe peacefully into a better future. He can lead us through the shifting of the paradigm. We just have to be ready. We have to be patient yet unyielding. We have to sacrifice,like we always do.
Evolution of the human race is what Barack Obama is proposing to lead us through.
Hip Hop has provided through it's cultural interpretation a social documentation of oppressed peoples throughout the world. It is through Hip Hop that racism has been most combated and that global class warfare has been exposed. Barack Obama is Hip Hop's contribution to the world.
The environmental crisis that we face is nothing that we can search into our history books and find solutions to, technically. The answers to those problems are being created now. Barack Obama is not just asking us to conserve energy, he is asking us to step our level of humanity up. He is asking us to work hard for each other, not just ourselves. The economic crisis will only be solved when we become a more humane society.
This is what Hip Hop has taught the world.
However, it is a culture born from American culture: a culture rich with global ideas. American cultural is not intriscially the white man's culture anymore. It is OUR culture, the people's culture, all of the people. WE get to decide what to do with this world. It is our turn now, we have progressed as a nation, a human race, etc. We identified our oppressor, millenia. We are not peasants. We are the New World Order. And in the Bible we screw it up. But just like we have learned through the ages: we will repeat history despite ourselves. But that is not stupidity, that is humanity. Even if we die trying, lets die helping each other. Let's die of old age.
We already know it's a conspiracy. George Bush and Dick Cheney's whole administration existed to exploit the American People. It's a conspiracy. We got Enron'd. We can say it. They took advantage of our emotions. I don't want the mainstream to shy away from it anymore. The administration exploited the American People. They allowed our domesticity to fall to pieces. They left levees unsecured to wash out whole communities of people. They put young people, teenagers, overseas and into Iraq and let them die over a lie they told to gain control of the oil fields, so they could in turn use our oil dependency against us, while claiming it was for our own good, because they were fighting terror. The causalities of the war in Iraq reach into the 9th ward of New Orleans. But like Enron, they do not care about the exposure of the exploitation and abuse of power because they're gone now, they have very little power, theoretically speaking. But really, they have no integrity to sacrifice so they are already comfortable without it, even in public. They are the evil they claimed to be fighting. These are not decent men. These are Masons. They will sacrifice each other. These are crooks and gangsters and we should have the power to let that be known. Oh wait...enter Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is not afraid of the truth. He does not shy away from possibility or from reality. He is a man of integrity coupled with innovation. Barack Obama is not afraid of the streets. He is also not afraid of the revolution. He is not just a president. He is a political and cultural leader. Barack Obama has the ability to lead Americans and the Globe peacefully into a better future. He can lead us through the shifting of the paradigm. We just have to be ready. We have to be patient yet unyielding. We have to sacrifice,like we always do.
Evolution of the human race is what Barack Obama is proposing to lead us through.
Hip Hop has provided through it's cultural interpretation a social documentation of oppressed peoples throughout the world. It is through Hip Hop that racism has been most combated and that global class warfare has been exposed. Barack Obama is Hip Hop's contribution to the world.
The environmental crisis that we face is nothing that we can search into our history books and find solutions to, technically. The answers to those problems are being created now. Barack Obama is not just asking us to conserve energy, he is asking us to step our level of humanity up. He is asking us to work hard for each other, not just ourselves. The economic crisis will only be solved when we become a more humane society.
This is what Hip Hop has taught the world.
