What Hip Hop means to fans

[Xray]

Hip Hop is life for me. It's what i'm planning for my future and helps me survive now. Without it, i'm just surviving and don't give me the shit about i can live without it..there'd be no real meaning to live without hip-hop for people, it's not about the image, it's the whole fucking culture

Amen.

hip hop to me is just music...i don't live or eat in the ghetto, i dont live the hip hop culture.. and i doubt many of you do...

we all struggle but doesn't mean we're living hip hop when we struggle..

You don't live the Hip Hop culture? Then why do you make beats? why do you feel like you have to write and rap, why do you want to maybe make it in the game some day and prove your skills to the world. Why do you wake up, listen to your daily dosage, why can't you mute your speakers and not listen to Hip Hop. Why can't you realize that you are living Hip Hop, and that it is a big part of your life. What you think work, school and friends connect with you more then Hip Hop does? Impossible.

It's obvious you are living Hip Hop, and no living Hip Hop doesn't mean you have to rob banks every once in a while or throw your crip or blood gang sign, or have to live in the hood. If it was like that then Hip Hop albums wouldn't sell as much as they do, and the Hip Hop culture won't be as big as it is. Most of the albums are bought from suburban kids, so what just because they don't live in a ghetto, means that their struggles aren't as important? Every person struggles and every struggle has a voice, and its all as equal to the next man that struggles.

I love hip hop, it's just a beautiful type of music. It will never be better then rock to me, but they both get mad love.

I respect that, but to me Hip Hop is more of a class you take, you listen, you hear, you get motivated to do what your listening to in your own way. Reason why so many people, like 80% of Hip Hop fans have given a shot at being a rapper in their life time. Some pursue it as a dream, others give it a go, see what's the outcome and don't feel they have to go on in that direction anymore.

So most of you saying Hip Hop isn't a lifestyle for you, or it isn't that important in your life, I don't believe it, cause it is a part of your lifestyle and it some what makes you what you are.

I'm not even going to argue with Scotty, its a well known fact that he knows little about Hip Hop.

[AliJack]

Hip Hop is life for me. It's what i'm planning for my future and helps me survive now. Without it, i'm just surviving and don't give me the shit about i can live without it..there'd be no real meaning to live without hip-hop for people, it's not about the image, it's the whole fucking culture

Fuckin' word up to that.

[pawel]

Hip-hop as music has a lot of 'dimentions'. Don't know how to use a proper word, maybe that is a good word

Hip-hop as poetry
- It makes you think about specific subjects
- Lyrically complex

Hip-hop as entertainment
- comedy lyrics
- nice wordplay
- a nice tune to listen to

Hip-hop as something to relate to. That is kind of the poetry part as well.

as a culture hip-hop is different. the 'living hip-hop' part. I don't think it's what the topic is about, because you can't be fan of a culture you're either part of it or you aren't. You can be a fan to music though. so that's the question I did answer

[Slimm]

One of the best things to happen to me is expanding my music taste to other genres. I pity the people that are stuck with just HipHop, no offense to anyone in this thread though.
I used to listen to just hiphop when i was younger and i still love hiphop, but if i go to shit i can relate more to other music than hiphop, since i dont deal crack or live in the ghetto. Hiphop will always be my first love for music but my love for it is deffo different then it used to be, its like i got kinda bored of it.

[Xray]

One of the best things to happen to me is expanding my music taste to other genres. I pity the people that are stuck with just HipHop, no offense to anyone in this thread though.
I used to listen to just hiphop when i was younger and i still love hiphop, but if i go to shit i can relate more to other music than hiphop, since i dont deal crack or live in the ghetto. Hiphop will always be my first love for music but my love for it is deffo different then it used to be, its like i got kinda bored of it.

At least you had some dope ass taste of Hip Hop though.

M.O.B.B.

[pawel]

The fact that people think hip-hop lyrics are just about crack, bitches and ghetto's proves what kind of hip-hop it is you listen to... there's a lot of more hip-hop music out there then the gangster rap..

[Muchacho21]

Hip hop gets me going a lot of the time. I can't describe the feeling when I get a new album from one of my favorite artists and put it on and just sit and listen, by myself, just letting the music absorb me.

[Xray]

The fact that people think hip-hop lyrics are just about crack, bitches and ghetto's proves what kind of hip-hop it is you listen to... there's a lot of more hip-hop music out there then the gangster rap..

Agreed. Although I really enjoy Gangster Rap, interesting hearing about what goes down in LA or rough parts of NY. A lot of people hate on Gangster Rap, but what I love about it is how personal most of the tracks are, most of them are stories, some obviously fake it (not a fan of that), but the real shit, well I think its real is dope as fuck. Although artists like Game I have some doubts about him being an actual gangster as much as he says he is, doubt it though, doesn't matter anyway dudes ill.

[yoshi]

Hip hop as a culture.. I said it before, it's complex. It's not only music, but it's the history, lifestyle, variety of styles, techniques.. For me it also means being open-minded to new things. I can't say I can relate to.. let's say Nas, because my background is totally different than his, but I can understand his point. Listening to rap makes me realise what some of the people have been through, I can understand why they try to make the best out what they have.

Hip hop means to me concerts and thousands of people standing together and waiting for their favourite rapper. It means anticipation that you feel when you know that new album is going to drop soon and you just know it's going to be dope. It means that I can put my favourite song on and forget about the shitty day.

It means discovering new artists and styles. Whether it's funk or jazz, blues or electronic music mixed with rap - the experimental fusion of two different styles - it can give you chills as well as genius lyrics.

I don't think you have to sell crack, rape and run around strapped with guns to feel what hip hop really is. It's never been like that in the very beginning. It was fun, it was the society, it was the music and positive vibe.

And for the record - for all the dumbfucks who associate hip hop with violence, baggy clothes (just look at Run DMC), guns, drugs and bitches - you're bunch of idiots and you're the reason it died.


Word to slimm, I been expanding my taste in music too.. I listen to electronic music alot, but hip hop will always have a special place in my life, that's for sure. It's been with me for like.. 9 years now, it's been a part of my life and I can't imagine myself without it.

[Just Silver]

Its a false reality to me it puts me into situations i would like to be in or be able to tell a
story about or wishing people had the time to listen to everything i said just as much
music makes that possible