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As two people who grew up loving Hip Hop, the current state of the genre – especially the seeming oversaturation of sex, money, and violence – sparked a peculiar conversation about the health status of the "Message." Is Hip-hop dead, on life support, or has one of the most sonically creative audio movements of the past 30 years been paralyzed by the alleged consumerism and narcissism of the "Get Money" generation? We ponder, the life span of the current state of Hip Hop as in a day and age of "Change" and "Yes We Can," it is curious to consider how long the new era of Hip Hop can thrive - without life support – given its seemingly drastic movement away from its indigenous socially conscious and community uplift roots. Click here to read more.
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Kendra King's text captures the complex interaction between African Americans and US political institutions.