hip hop

Yo what up man, I wanted to share this with everybody in case someone hasnt seen it:



thats a clip from Bboy Summit 1999 I believe (forgot what it was but it says in the vid, you check it out) and I believe that this clip is in the movie called The Freshest Kids. Im not sure tho since I havent actually seen the movie yet. Well the point is, I wanted to share this because it reminded me of why I hate cops. Sure, without them we would be killing ourselves, but in this case, all they ever did was disrupt a peaceful event. Maybe not peaceful in their standards, but to the hip hop heads this was like a dream come true. There was bboying, graffiti, djing and mcing. It was the kind of event that brought everyone of those people together by this culture nowadays being extortion. It was an event full of love between the people that appreciate this culture. You can see it from their smiley faces and by the number of people that showed up. Yet, some pigs came and disrupted everything, even arrested people.

But what I like about this video is the message it has. Did you see how Crazy Legs started bboying in front of the pigs? Thats him telling them "I dont care, this is my culture and some handcups aint gonna take this away from me. We are here. We are hip hop." And also what I liked was the fact that everyone stay together, there was cops loaded with guns all around them, but yet, they still kept breaking in circles. They simply didnt care how oppressed they were in there, because they knew that everyone had each other backs.

And nowadays, I hear on radio and everywhere I go, hip hop is dead. Is not that real hip hop its dead, its just hiding from the mainstream trying to keep its roots and trying to keep it true to the culture and to its people. Its alive in every kid's flow, in every style and color on the wall, in every scratched record and especially in every breaking boy, the bboy. I heard in some song (cant remember the name) theres this part where it says 'hip hop wouldnt be here, without the bboys and the djs' and i believe thats true. Why? Because look around you, in your community. Who keeps making jams? Who keeps bringing the people together? Everywhere I see that theres a hip hop event, it is most likely a bboy event. Its bboys that keep hip hop heads together. Without those jams, people would forget that a essential part of this culture is unity. Like KRS-One says 'peace, unity and having fun' thats what hip hop is. Its not drugs, sex, cars, crime or anything like that. Its the peace, unity and having fun what makes hip hop HIP HOP. Without that, there would be no bboying, no graffiti, no rap and no djs! Yet today it just seems like its all about who sells the most records or can make people do the stupidiest dance (which I like because its about having fun right? But what about unity? Unity as in, being together with our brothers and sisters with the same respect for all. Thats why I dont mind mainstream hip hop. Its gonna pull people apart and theres gonna be a point where the underground will be the only peaceful place that keeps the people together, that they are going to turn in when it all ends.)

Thats why I like to keep it underground. Because not only its hip hop to its fullest, but also it has that peace, unity and fun this culture was about. If you dont believe me, look at that video again. You see how in united they were in a circle watching people break and defending their culture? And how fun it is to see that in person? Also, how even tho its crowed, its all in peace? I mean, people were tagging and all, but most of them didnt cared. No one was getting robbed, raped or murder. And they are just having fun! And people were at peace like that! (If you dont believe me that graffiti is fun I dare you to pick up a can and do something on a wall, youll climax.) Tell me, in what other culture can you find something like this? Only hip hop.

But the "man" keep trying to pull us apart. Its making graffiti writers look like if they are associated with criminals like murders or something. Its making bboys look like some punks that are just dancing to bother old people as if they wanted to hit them or something. Its making djs look like some drug addict thats broke and lives with his mother in the attic. Or the MC, that now they call rapper and they keep making him look like some gangster that has no manners and no respect for women or that promotes of the use of drugs.

Thats why, we got to stay together, learn to get along with each other. If theres gonna be competition, let it be a healthy competition, we cant let them win this. We cant let them use and abuse our culture. Our hip hop culture! The only culture that doesnt care for what race you are, how rich or poor, or good looking or ugly you are, how skinny or fat or stupid as fuck you are. Its the culture that brings all of those together in peace to have fun.

Well my antivirus is done scanning for viruses, lucky me I have none! :) So Im done for now. Take care and remember... HIP HOP WONT STOP!!!!!!!!!! CANT STOP WONT STOP!!

Peace.