Truth be told here... this documentary uncovers so much truth and makes you think. That's why I listen to 80s and 90s HipHop... and I have much respect for the Underground, keeping things real!
Maybe so but no decades compares to the 90's or or even the early 2000's as far as the majority of "Hip Hop" music being quality; maybe even up to 90% of the music. Nowadays, maybe 5% of the "Hip Hop" is quality.
My God, I moved from North Jersey to California in around 1985 and I watched hip hop sweep west. It finally got to the point where the mainstream labels just completely absorbed the POWER and messages that hip hop was able to produce. I still bump KRS One, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Mos Def, De La Soul, etc. everyday. I swear, I have some 2015 ideas to bring this whole thing back around to the good origins. I would LOVE to talk to these pioneers because a ground swell of positivity, originality, and quality could be started if there are certain current pieces in place. I put together a whole plan while watching this...from the unsigned artists, to the independent labels, to the banned great artists that are being blocked. This movement is just around the corner!!!
Peace and positive blessings to you C Ali!! You are correct. Check out this link....soundcloud.com/sadiehawkinsmusic/cosmic-legaci-nocturne-blue I go second on the song. Let me know what you think please.
Hip Hop will stay strong, as long as we stay connected with the planet on a Spiritual and Natural level. It is the Materialism and Technology that is disturbing the body of the music.
Hattori DJing and turntables are the foundation of Hip-Hop and based in technology, not to mention Planet Rock and drum machines/808s or Marley Marl and sampling.
Some quotes you shouldn't miss just in case you're cruisin by - "The courage to be yourself is the essence of Hip Hop" "Hip Hop is a representation of what is happening in the inner cities of America - so if things in the city are looking depleted or off balance - that is a pure reflection of how the state of Hip Hop is doing also"
Kevin Paul I think the second quote is backwards though. I think he said if Hip Hop is looking depleted or off balance its a reflection of the inner city.
Kevin Paul Um most of that shit stopped happening in the streets ten years ago. The war on drugs is pretty much over. The music industry just like to keep the propaganda going. The real thugs who lived it already talked about and so the words were born. The crack era is over. If drugs were popping like that in the black neighborhoods, I think that the real hood would be the first to know. However, with meth and molly; I guess it is popping like that in middle class communities. That's probably why it's never broadcasted on the news as much. smh
You are definitely right, it's not on the 80s/90s level anymore. But when you look at some of the videos being marketed today, you would think that it was. People that actually lived throughout that era knows the destruction that it caused in black communities all over the world. Crack nearly destroyed our race. It took a whole lot for us to get back, so continuing to glorify that only says that we've learned absolutely nothing. It's a lot of beautiful, smart, intelligent, educated people in our race. Why go down in history (hip hop) as being nothing more than a thug or gangster, or a high class hoe. We are much much more than that.
+Floyvd Floyd ITS STILL A LOT OF ARTIST WHO HAVE MESSAGES ITS JUST NOT ON THE RADIO. MOST PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DIG FOR MUSIC BUT REAL HIP HOP IS STILL OUT HERE.
Black music as we used to know it such as R&B , was eliminated to destroy the black community and the peace and quiet this music used to provide. Someone killed Pied Piper , in order to create a community of people running around like scared wayward rats..
this is true and believe me while we were all groovin to the music in the 90's up until 2003, someone was planning this kind of demise to the black community all across the nation. This was clearly a well thought out plan and it took them 10 to 15 years until now to implement it and they are watching the fruits of their labour right now, and if it didn't profit them financially, it has profited them spiritually. The destruction of black inner city youth is well underway, but its still not too late to stay out of the way of it, and when the time comes to educate whomever will listen , let them know.
kingdellxValdez unfortunately rappers do have to eat only because the bit of rap supporters that we do that aint no rappers aint gone support you unless you gotta deal
I ENJOYED this documentary. Why? Because it Enlightened me with knowledge and A LOT of history of Hip Hop. Couldn't be explained or taught better than like KRS's doing, which is very directly and understanding. I totally got hooked on everything that was said in this video from the very beginning to the end. Keep doing what you're doing KRS, you're the best! Peace & Prosperity.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I started writing rap when I was 14, and people told me to switch styles to the newer generation stuff. Fuck that, I'm going to stay the way I am. Fuck Soulja Boy, Gucci, Birdman, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and any new age rapper bullshit that comes out on the radio. I believe rap can be changed, only if we show the youth a good example.
Excellent doc! Always did wonder where the hiphop I liked had gone and wtf was this now? Good to know these folks are out there, fighting the good fight. Peace. x
Rap is something you do hip hop is something you live...foreal. hip hop is a culture,a meaning it unifies us all.alot of the upcoming generations don't understand the power of music and the influence it has. In this era real shit does not exist.smh
Glad I came across this! I'm in a group called O.G.AUDIO We began this group because we were fed up wit a lot of new music , and it's lack of real, heart felt lyrics... Hip Hop is my life and my Culture! I will do my part to make sure, it never dies!
I agree!! Peace and positive blessings towards you. Check out this link soundcloud.com/sadiehawkinsmusic/cosmic-legaci-nocturne-blue Let me know what you think. I go second on the song. Peace!!
vernonclassic so fuck what the media says. It the people are so easily led then it is all their fault. We blame the people......those using them are opportunists which could NEVER do anything that wasnt fed by the people.
Hip-Hop started dying due to people like Dame Dash, and Puff Daddy becoming powerful studio heads in the industry. and they started to overspecialize in commercialization at the expense of everything else. Then the internet gave dip shits like Desiigner, and Migos a voice. People like to blame the south, yet forget the south gave us Geto Boys, Arrested Development, Goodie Mob, Outkast. So no, the south is no more to blame than DJ Unk with his chicken noodle soup with soda on the side. The INDUSTRY killed hip-hop along with black insiders like Puff Daddy, and Dame Dash. that's just the bitter truth.
Boom Bap HIP HOP is Original HIP HOP music the problem is that they playing far more wackness than realness, basically. And the fans keep buying bullshit that's another reason why that's just my opinion.
The thing is all of us who are talking about hip hop, over 40..... our kids and what they call hip hop, we need to leave them alone.... listen to our classics!
I'm a Hip Hop head and I have to say I really enjoyed watching this. I like all Hip-Hop whether it's old school or new school, but I decide for myself what I like. Occasionally there will be some ignant music that I will bob my head to, but I listen to this music like a music fan should. I look for lyricism, listen for the pictures being painted through their words, look out for the metaphors, and get lost in the production of whatever I'm listening too. I wish many others could see this.
From the MC LYTE school of thought, the game changed when it was all about money making above passion and sense of ownership of the culture. As much as I respect PAC and BIGGIE, their era spawned the money making drive, along with the greed/flashiness and social disrespect (B-word, etc)
I wouldn't say Pac or Biggie nearly so much as Puff Daddy, that asshole. He was talentless so leached on to those who were and now he's a billionaire who could care less about music at all.
@@natalie8212 Nah you are wrong...Puff actually always had the culture infused in his movement...whether you like him or not doesn't change the fact. And what do you mean about his talent? Puff definitely has a talent of knowing what sounds nice. He's executive produced some of the most classic albums musically as it relates to the culture. From hip hop soul with Mary J Blige or Faith to all of the mid to late 90's bad boy albums. You can't blame Puff anymore than you could blame anybody else from his era.
the cold hard truth... is that hip hop died with the coming of Bad Boy records. Particularly Puff Daddy. Blasphemy you say?. who started Bling? before Cashmoney crew who really started the commercialized rap/blling era? Puff / Bad Boy. Now.. indeed at the time everyone drunk up the BB juice. It was the start of a new era for rap. No more struggles 'I made it' rap.. But what was rap prior to that? Black awareness, Black empowerment, urban rennasance, and great GREAT hip hop. when Puff got in with Biggie, Biggie knocked the walls down, and loads of other great rap artist, BUT everyone was so high on BLING and Crys they forgot hip hop was being crushed.. because with Puff came the remodeling of the Business of Rap. and the Business of Rap and record labels took it for all it was worth... Rap went fully mainstream. and the adolecense years of rap as a business gave way to big corporate control. and the era of Hip Hop died. what further destroyed the layout of rap was the death of Biggie and Pac. With the two hardest rappers of our time came a direct level of thug-ism, taken to whole new hieghts. TRUTH BE TOLD with money and women cars and bling came that wannabee Tony Montanna Scarface lifestyle. People were living out there fantasies including drugs. The drug game grew, everything Hip hop stood for was crushed by Bling, fueled but Puff Cashmoney Biggie Pac etc. dont like to hear it but its true and you know it!. With the loss of big and Pac Southern Rap flourished both east and west cost traditional rap gave way to southern rap, until..Dre and snoop reclaimed the west. but for NY a new era of rap emerged. Gunit. but by that time... traditional hip hop was long dead. the years took its toll.
+xevious2501 THIS. so true. it destroyed the notion of native tongue, it glossed over gangster rap for only the gold, it turned its back on public enemy/krs1 etc.
+xevious2501 when we started joining the band wagon "for the bling" we lost our sound. remember, a lot of the south hated NYC because wasn't trying to hear that shit. it always take one known rapper from NYC or group to take a chance to merge with the out state sound to break the wall down. the furthest we was letting it go was the west coast with Dre and crew.........not much
+xevious2501 the first to do it for a check started it, thats since the birth...the gift of music is free but how much would u charge to share it? we just got a whole lot more sell outs now
That's the main reason why the south is the bottom of the totem pole because of garbage in and out is no argument is pure fucking facts my nigga I'm from NJ and a lot of southern rap is extremely wack as fuck my niggas yes I like some southern rappers but I don't listen to them 24/7. They the main reason why rap as a whole is so corny nowadays don't bring the excuse there is good rappers out there every 3 or 5 good rappers there are thousands and thousands of extreme wack niggas emerge every year and year pure facts done😠😠😠😠.
“When you let another people take over your music, when you let another people take over your dance and attach their content to it, they will use your own music, and your own dance, and your own rap lyrics, and your own poetry, and your own cultural symbols, to carry their message into your body and into your mind such that you can only respond then to their beckoned call and to their wishes. They take our own instruments and turn them against the self. Notice how quickly when one of your youngsters was rhyming “Kill the police,” that kind of content was washed right out immediately. Yes. But what wash out occurs when they sing about shooting each other with their glocks and the other things when their content of self-destructiveness ride on the rhythm of their song, and of their dance, and when the symbols are loaded then with self-destructive elements and content?” - Bro. Amos N. Wilson
Mainstream media is NOT the one to blame. Conscious-minded people know how the mainstream media works. We, Black people, must blame ourselves because it's NOT the first time that it has happened. We let white artists and white music historians rob rock'n'roll music from us. The old saying is: "Those who forget their past are condemned in repeating it." That old saying applies to us, Black people. Wake up, Black people!!
Today is the *7* year anniversary of when you uploaded "What Ever Happened To Hip Hop". EDIT- 7:43 P.M.: *finishes documentary 56 minutes later* Unfortunately, the revolution never came. Hip hop mostly stays trapped in the underground.
The M.A. just saw this video and the public enemy documentary, and tbh it has given me a new perspective on things, at 21 currently I’ve always been aware of what hip hop used to me and originated from, but these two videos I’ve watched have showed me how us as African Americans have been crippled in all aspects, even within our own culture which has been infiltrated and ruined or vultured off of. Now hip hop is pushed out to imprison us literally and figuratively.
Excellent Documentary. Im a white guy from England and hip hop in the 80's and early 90's changed my life. Today it is not just a black struggle or a white struggle (although racism and prejudice are still rife). Today our struggle is for our collective consciousness.
As soon as you know how to talk, enlighten and teach without negativity only then will you know hip hop is. You can call this music nowadays hip hop but hip hop it will never be unfortunately. I'm happy to now and forever to be hip hop, with all respect you can keep this music nowadays. I'll stick to the empowerment of people period. 👊🏾👊🏽👊🏻👊✌🏽️
I'm a huge hip hop fan, but the beginning of this documentary makes it sound like hip hop is some far superior genre of music. It's all personal preference. Besides that, good shit. I'm glad they included the forever underrated Kool Keith to discuss hip hop.
I had a kid say to me that he envied me because I grew up as a teen in the 80s. Didn't really know what he meant until he said that he wished he could have grown up with Public Enemy, Run-DMC, De La Soul, NWA, Eric B. and Rakim and the Native Tongues. We need to make the music live again...
As an artist, musician, writer and educational consultant, it is my job to share my story and my knowledge. As a consumer it is my job to choose what is healthy and appropriate for me to consume. People get so caught up with being mouth fed that they forget to feed themselves.
Unity is unity no matter what color someone is. I believe the early hip hop was an amazing and a positive influence on art -and the spirit. And yes it was great to see black people supporting what they believe in. But I don't agree with some of the statements in this documentary and feel there hypocritical. Excellent video either way. A lot of great lessons to be learned.
As a metalhead who like the oldschool Hip/hop, I want to find Hip Hop that not everybody listening to, I want to find new artist with their own style, I really hate today music corp bullshit. I like that fact that there are people fighting to do that.
you're dumb, theres a million people doing that. There's Chance the Rapper, Ab-soul, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar even though hes mainstream, Jay Rock, Schoolboy q, Childish Gambino, Isaiah Rashad, theres a lot
AnimeFreakSasuke I got what you are saying but I also get what he is saying too. We all act as if good music was always easy to find but when you really think back. The good stuff was hard to find back in the days too. We forgot hip hop wasn't really played on MTV back then except for like an hour on MTV rap and even they were late.
I Hear you woman.LOL I am right there with you. You know maybe that's why we are all here on youtube trading comments. We are here because we are not finding what we crave else where. Its like we got a taste of the really good stuff and now we are hooked. LOL What do you guys think?
Im15 and love this video because i was never able to live in the golden age. So i can only listen to old songs. And i wish for Hip-Hip to return to its glory days.
Hip-Hop will never be the same and will never go back to the way it was 20 years ago. The new generation that was to young when the glory days were present missed all this. Corporate America capitalized with this and changed the game to be all about Hip-POP, Clubbing, bitches and cars...etc. You even got horrible "rapper" not MC's rapping horrible commercial level lyrics on techno beats, WTF is that??? Sadly this is what everyone wants now. The real Hip-Hop is still there but Corporate controls the media and only puts the garbage on T.V. and this new age of Social Media. You gotta go underground to find the things that was once above ground. We as in the real ones went underground with the format and became mole people. The beats are still raw and the lyrics are still hard it's just no longer right in front of your face. Just like that RAW beat in the opening of this DOC. Gotta dig deep into the past to find it. Peace, from NYC! -TRG
The only mainstream artists that are out today are Lupe and Kendrick. I think Drake, ASAP, Lil Wayne, Tyga, and all those other idiots talk about nothing but watered down filth. Can't stand any of them. The golden era was actually artistic.
Has anyone noticed that most of the HipHop artists and Neo soul artists are banned from radio? And so many of them are sick., broke, or God for bid dead... Someone if them have lost their money they musically earned honestly, Some of them are dealing with trumped up criminal charges out of nowhere! And last but not least some of them have been bankruptcied to death by their record companies... All of this was methodically planned by the 3 record companies that are around now.
I have been saying this for years that rap music is becoming less of a representation of the culture of whoever is doing it and more about the perpetuation of American materialism much like pop music and country music. We can even see this trend emerging with metal acts and I wish it would stop for all of the genres. The music suffers greatly and we are bombarded with the message of buying things we don't need for the purpose of their status symbol.
52:03 I didn't have to dig in the 90s though. It was offered to me via Wu-Tang, Nas, Mobb Deep, Tupac, A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, and others. All I had to do is turn on my television or radio and the socially conscious dopeness was there. NOW it is not being offered and NOW you have to dig. But in songs like "C.R.E.A.M." "Can It Be All So Simple", "If I Ruled the World", "Cold World", "Ya Playin' Yaself", "Murder Was the Case" the messages were there and they were mainstream.
Everybody saying "hip hop is totally dead now" please stfu. I'm only 27 (a young nigga from this generation unfortunately) and I still ditc, i still chop samples and breaks, I still pay homage to 70s-90s hip hop culture, I use akai mpc, I LOVE boom bap, so all you peeps saying that shit like hip hop is dead are apart of the problem, y'all the ones who walked away from hip hop after '99, hip hop didn't go anywhere, she just went underground the so called fans started listening to other shit like techno trap etc. let hip hop live yo. keep supporting the real hip hop being released now, there are still a lot of us young hip hop heads, don't let mtv fool you.
just wanted to say thank you. to the director, producer, camera man, and the people that have financed this.If we could just find a way to get balance back into Hip Hop. and deal with so many different ego's including or own's. we might have a chance. I point a finger in my face everyday to realize i'm afraid of myself. so you know im terrified of us
Preciate this more than you know. My musics been running dry and haven't been able to find anything even remotely new except immortal techniques new album. Thankyou
Videos like this are the reason emcees holdin it down for the past 10-15 years on the underground get no credit. People too lazy to look for the good shit. Oh well.....
bin geboren 1978,,mit 14 jahren hörte ich rap,lebte mein hip hop ,breakdance ,ich vermisse die zeit wo hip hop noch hip hop war!von den 80ern bis ende 90ern was ist aus hip hop geworden echt schade das was die heute machen,höre ich nicht ,ich höre nur die sachen von früher afrika baambaata,grandmaster flash ,krs one ,public enemy ,ice t,ice cube,kool mo dee,king t,channel live , erick sermon,run dmc ......
Truth be told here... this documentary uncovers so much truth and makes you think. That's why I listen to 80s and 90s HipHop... and I have much respect for the Underground, keeping things real!
Goldman Kwezi me too!
I need to start listening to more underground music.
@@thema1998 Here's a treat from the underground... th-cam.com/video/drbDe6opBiI/w-d-xo.html
I'm late but here some underground rap th-cam.com/video/Gkj9QBqsqT0/w-d-xo.html
Facts
It never died in my opinion, i find quality in every decade of hip hop.
Nonsense.
Maybe so but no decades compares to the 90's or or even the early 2000's as far as the majority of "Hip Hop" music being quality; maybe even up to 90% of the music. Nowadays, maybe 5% of the "Hip Hop" is quality.
it died a while ago.
hip hop aint dead. hip hop has been imprisoned and hidden and people are starting to forget about it.
SCARECROW buried alive. Lives underground
"If you feed people dog shit long enough, they'll learn to put BBQ sauce on it"
- DMX
HMM"!
rea'lly starting to make sense now
Did X say this?
Control music, you control the masses, turn it from rebellion, to serve the powers that be, the record industry.
right on
My God, I moved from North Jersey to California in around 1985 and I watched hip hop sweep west. It finally got to the point where the mainstream labels just completely absorbed the POWER and messages that hip hop was able to produce. I still bump KRS One, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Mos Def, De La Soul, etc. everyday. I swear, I have some 2015 ideas to bring this whole thing back around to the good origins. I would LOVE to talk to these pioneers because a ground swell of positivity, originality, and quality could be started if there are certain current pieces in place. I put together a whole plan while watching this...from the unsigned artists, to the independent labels, to the banned great artists that are being blocked. This movement is just around the corner!!!
Word... I run the same play list, and throw in some MC LYTE, LATIFAH, SALT-N-PEPA, MONIE LOVE, etc on the female tip.
Sounds divine. Keep me posted...I'd love to contribute to a postive/righteous movement with my music
nothing goes back or comes back, thank god hip hop is dying, time for something new
Interesting documentary. It's sad how good hip hop artists are never recognized.
Peace and positive blessings to you C Ali!! You are correct. Check out this link....soundcloud.com/sadiehawkinsmusic/cosmic-legaci-nocturne-blue I go second on the song. Let me know what you think please.
Very sad. And the voices of the ignorant are being heard over theirs, influencing our youth. Nothing uplifting.
Back then, good hip hop artists WERE recognized. Nowadays, yes, good hip hop artists aren't recognized as much as they used to.
Kendrick.
Its because people don't want the real ....
I miss the 90s
I Am Error Me too
So bad . 90s was the era
@@raggadan1653 The best era in hip hop.
Hip Hop will stay strong, as long as we stay connected with the planet on a Spiritual and Natural level. It is the Materialism and Technology that is disturbing the body of the music.
Hattori
DJing and turntables are the foundation of Hip-Hop and based in technology, not to mention Planet Rock and drum machines/808s or Marley Marl and sampling.
Absolutely right .
"If you feed people shit for so long, eventually they will learn to put BBQ sauce on it." That statement hit me in the consciousness!
We must spread the word and educate the kids today since they are clueless about hip hop. Thank you for posting this documentary. Much love
Some quotes you shouldn't miss just in case you're cruisin by -
"The courage to be yourself is the essence of Hip Hop"
"Hip Hop is a representation of what is happening in the inner cities of America - so if things in the city are looking depleted or off balance - that is a pure reflection of how the state of Hip Hop is doing also"
Kevin Paul wrd up
Kevin Paul I think the second quote is backwards though. I think he said if Hip Hop is looking depleted or off balance its a reflection of the inner city.
Kevin Paul Um most of that shit stopped happening in the streets ten years ago. The war on drugs is pretty much over. The music industry just like to keep the propaganda going. The real thugs who lived it already talked about and so the words were born. The crack era is over. If drugs were popping like that in the black neighborhoods, I think that the real hood would be the first to know. However, with meth and molly; I guess it is popping like that in middle class communities. That's probably why it's never broadcasted on the news as much. smh
Simone Walker Drug game isn't on the 80s/90s level but it is still around. People are still making hundred of thousands.
You are definitely right, it's not on the 80s/90s level anymore. But when you look at some of the videos being marketed today, you would think that it was. People that actually lived throughout that era knows the destruction that it caused in black communities all over the world. Crack nearly destroyed our race. It took a whole lot for us to get back, so continuing to glorify that only says that we've learned absolutely nothing. It's a lot of beautiful, smart, intelligent, educated people in our race. Why go down in history (hip hop) as being nothing more than a thug or gangster, or a high class hoe. We are much much more than that.
Seriously Trap music needs to die because it killed REAL HIP-HOP. I can't stand it no more, son.
I truly feel like hip hop is gone forever. Kendrick and j cole are good, but really aren't true hip hop
+Sara Almutairi true hip hop had a message or story tied to it rappers these days have none
+Floyvd Floyd ITS STILL A LOT OF ARTIST WHO HAVE MESSAGES ITS JUST NOT ON THE RADIO. MOST PEOPLE DONT WANT TO DIG FOR MUSIC BUT REAL HIP HOP IS STILL OUT HERE.
+Beyond Your Little Boxes Preach brother. Let the sheep listen to the radio.
+Kevin Diyoka Trap killed music all over the map. It ruined coldplay FFS
Black music as we used to know it such as R&B , was eliminated to destroy the black community and the peace and quiet this music used to provide. Someone killed Pied Piper , in order to create a community of people running around like scared wayward rats..
Preach sista! Bunch of ratchet women and thug wanna be's running around.
this is true and believe me while we were all groovin to the music in the 90's up until 2003, someone was planning this kind of demise to the black community all across the nation. This was clearly a well thought out plan and it took them 10 to 15 years until now to implement it and they are watching the fruits of their labour right now, and if it didn't profit them financially, it has profited them spiritually. The destruction of black inner city youth is well underway, but its still not too late to stay out of the way of it, and when the time comes to educate whomever will listen , let them know.
tracey mallard Its called corruption. You can blame the money, society, industry or the brothers and sisters who sold themselves out. :-/
FanaticDz
So true, So True.
tracey mallard the destruction of black inner city youth started long before hip hop and rap.
I figured out a simple solution to bringing back the original Hip Hop: don't sign to a record label. Simple as that.
if only these artists didn't have to make a living...
MustBeMusa you don't need a record label to make a living off of hip hop. One prime example of how this can be done is Immortal Technique.
kingdellxValdez unfortunately rappers do have to eat only because the bit of rap supporters that we do that aint no rappers aint gone support you unless you gotta deal
kingdellxValdez He probably doing something else. Not just living off of rap.
Or sign to an independant record label that believes in your vision and gives you 100% creative control over your music, such as Rhymesayers.
I ENJOYED this documentary. Why? Because it Enlightened me with knowledge and A LOT of history of Hip Hop. Couldn't be explained or taught better than like KRS's doing, which is very directly and understanding. I totally got hooked on everything that was said in this video from the very beginning to the end. Keep doing what you're doing KRS, you're the best! Peace & Prosperity.
Its the beat of the heart, its vibration!! ❤💛💚
This is not a Hip Hop documentary. This is about the rap and music industry and it's success in keeping ignorant music out there.
EVERYBODY needs to see this.
One of the best hip hop documentaries I have seen- respect!!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I started writing rap when I was 14, and people told me to switch styles to the newer generation stuff. Fuck that, I'm going to stay the way I am. Fuck Soulja Boy, Gucci, Birdman, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and any new age rapper bullshit that comes out on the radio. I believe rap can be changed, only if we show the youth a good example.
Yes I agree. I don't list most to much modern rap.
@War Path Real talk!
Fuck Lil' Wayne? Lol I hope you know better these days.
Excellent doc! Always did wonder where the hiphop I liked had gone and wtf was this now? Good to know these folks are out there, fighting the good fight. Peace. x
This is a very good documentary. It should be taught in schools. I will make sure my sons see this and spread the knowledge.
Rap is something you do hip hop is something you live...foreal. hip hop is a culture,a meaning it unifies us all.alot of the upcoming generations don't understand the power of music and the influence it has. In this era real shit does not exist.smh
Glad I came across this! I'm in a group called O.G.AUDIO
We began this group because we were fed up wit a lot of new music , and it's lack of real, heart felt lyrics... Hip Hop is my life and my Culture! I will do my part to make sure, it never dies!
Great Documentary. Excellent! I miss hip hop. Lets bring it back.
I agree!! Peace and positive blessings towards you. Check out this link soundcloud.com/sadiehawkinsmusic/cosmic-legaci-nocturne-blue Let me know what you think. I go second on the song. Peace!!
Hip hop Raised Me...
My condolences.
I bet that looks good on a resume.
im from england, grew up listening to biggie smalls and 50cent, then later eminem and nas. i raised myself with this beautiful music
ahh you listen to the best,
Keet Harris i like to think so aha
Mainstream media is to blame.
vernonclassic so fuck what the media says. It the people are so easily led then it is all their fault. We blame the people......those using them are opportunists which could NEVER do anything that wasnt fed by the people.
That played a part but not 100% to blame
Facts 💯
nOTHING TO BLAME ON BUT THE LISTENERS AND FANS WHO DON´T PAY FOR SHIT
Fantastic documentary!!!! Thank you, you are obviously a devoted lover of the divine arts.
Hip-Hop started dying due to people like Dame Dash, and Puff Daddy becoming powerful studio heads in the industry. and they started to overspecialize in commercialization at the expense of everything else. Then the internet gave dip shits like Desiigner, and Migos a voice.
People like to blame the south, yet forget the south gave us Geto Boys, Arrested Development, Goodie Mob, Outkast. So no, the south is no more to blame than DJ Unk with his chicken noodle soup with soda on the side. The INDUSTRY killed hip-hop along with black insiders like Puff Daddy, and Dame Dash. that's just the bitter truth.
And I know for a fact that 50 cent KILLED NewYork rap .. no question!
@@GiveItUpDot ?
One of the best documentaries I have scene! Love it!
Real hip hop did not die. It went back to its roots. It's back in the gutter,underground.
Music Man 1470,thanks for posting this documentary. It tells the truth 100%. Smh. I don't even know why four people gave it thumbs down.
Boom Bap HIP HOP is Original HIP HOP music the problem is that they playing far more wackness than realness, basically. And the fans keep buying bullshit that's another reason why that's just my opinion.
Donnie Anderson nah Boom Bap is not the Original Hip Hop the Original Hip Hop is the turntablism, sampling DJing dont forget the Graffiti people
The thing is all of us who are talking about hip hop, over 40..... our kids and what they call hip hop, we need to leave them alone.... listen to our classics!
Welcome to what every other genre of music has gone through.
I'm a Hip Hop head and I have to say I really enjoyed watching this. I like all Hip-Hop whether it's old school or new school, but I decide for myself what I like. Occasionally there will be some ignant music that I will bob my head to, but I listen to this music like a music fan should. I look for lyricism, listen for the pictures being painted through their words, look out for the metaphors, and get lost in the production of whatever I'm listening too. I wish many others could see this.
From the MC LYTE school of thought, the game changed when it was all about money making above passion and sense of ownership of the culture. As much as I respect PAC and BIGGIE, their era spawned the money making drive, along with the greed/flashiness and social disrespect (B-word, etc)
Goldman Kwezi
RUN-DMC, and the 80s in general, were about big chains and fancy cars before the Bling Era even could be conceived.
I wouldn't say Pac or Biggie nearly so much as Puff Daddy, that asshole. He was talentless so leached on to those who were and now he's a billionaire who could care less about music at all.
@@natalie8212 Nah you are wrong...Puff actually always had the culture infused in his movement...whether you like him or not doesn't change the fact. And what do you mean about his talent? Puff definitely has a talent of knowing what sounds nice. He's executive produced some of the most classic albums musically as it relates to the culture. From hip hop soul with Mary J Blige or Faith to all of the mid to late 90's bad boy albums. You can't blame Puff anymore than you could blame anybody else from his era.
I love this documentary, I was looking for some inspiration and I found it, thank you.
this film reminded me of the reason i started rapping. reminded me to hope.
that wasTHE BEST DOCUMENTATION of hip-hop I have seen ever... I learned so much. thanks:D great work!
Rap is the science of poetry.
What an amazing documentary, thank you so much, truly eye opening🙏🏼
That Beat at the beginning of the Documentary, Who's Instrumental is that ?
Miguel Pabon Check out the credits at the end of the documentary.
MusicMan1470 if you know ... tell us please , cant find it anywhere in the credits
paul fritsche Original Music By 52:44 - 53:08 Title music & Trailer music By Man Mantis
LOKUA
Great!!! Sonali, have u been contacted by some distributors in France ?
the cold hard truth... is that hip hop died with the coming of Bad Boy records. Particularly Puff Daddy. Blasphemy you say?. who started Bling? before Cashmoney crew who really started the commercialized rap/blling era? Puff / Bad Boy. Now.. indeed at the time everyone drunk up the BB juice. It was the start of a new era for rap. No more struggles 'I made it' rap.. But what was rap prior to that? Black awareness, Black empowerment, urban rennasance, and great GREAT hip hop. when Puff got in with Biggie, Biggie knocked the walls down, and loads of other great rap artist, BUT everyone was so high on BLING and Crys they forgot hip hop was being crushed.. because with Puff came the remodeling of the Business of Rap. and the Business of Rap and record labels took it for all it was worth... Rap went fully mainstream. and the adolecense years of rap as a business gave way to big corporate control. and the era of Hip Hop died. what further destroyed the layout of rap was the death of Biggie and Pac. With the two hardest rappers of our time came a direct level of thug-ism, taken to whole new hieghts. TRUTH BE TOLD with money and women cars and bling came that wannabee Tony Montanna Scarface lifestyle. People were living out there fantasies including drugs. The drug game grew, everything Hip hop stood for was crushed by Bling, fueled but Puff Cashmoney Biggie Pac etc. dont like to hear it but its true and you know it!. With the loss of big and Pac Southern Rap flourished both east and west cost traditional rap gave way to southern rap, until..Dre and snoop reclaimed the west. but for NY a new era of rap emerged. Gunit. but by that time... traditional hip hop was long dead. the years took its toll.
xevious2501 I just said that pro....Puffy was the start of the ending. Peace son!
+xevious2501 THIS. so true. it destroyed the notion of native tongue, it glossed over gangster rap for only the gold, it turned its back on public enemy/krs1 etc.
+xevious2501
when we started joining the band wagon "for the bling" we lost our sound. remember, a lot of the south hated NYC because wasn't trying to hear that shit. it always take one known rapper from NYC or group to take a chance to merge with the out state sound to break the wall down. the furthest we was letting it go was the west coast with Dre and crew.........not much
+xevious2501 the first to do it for a check started it, thats since the birth...the gift of music is free but how much would u charge to share it? we just got a whole lot more sell outs now
That's the main reason why the south is the bottom of the totem pole because of garbage in and out is no argument is pure fucking facts my nigga I'm from NJ and a lot of southern rap is extremely wack as fuck my niggas yes I like some southern rappers but I don't listen to them 24/7. They the main reason why rap as a whole is so corny nowadays don't bring the excuse there is good rappers out there every 3 or 5 good rappers there are thousands and thousands of extreme wack niggas emerge every year and year pure facts done😠😠😠😠.
Glad to have been a part of this! #longlivehiphop
where can i find the soundtrack to this documentary?
Check out the credits at the end of the docu.
the clarity of the message in this video was good I feel it was accurate thanks for sharing we are subscribe to your channel
The light skin brother with the glasses and bald head, and the dude in the red shirt with the dreads are spitting some real knowledge.
man u got to hit the streets with ya music hand to hand ..old school game ...one love
Hip Hop is dying because a lot of people got involve only for money. No passion, no culture, no concern with knowledge.
demofya true
demofya True and Jay Z plays a big role in that
This is an awesome documentary thank you for this contribution.
“When you let another people take over your music, when you let another people take over your dance and attach their content to it, they will use your own music, and your own dance, and your own rap lyrics, and your own poetry, and your own cultural symbols, to carry their message into your body and into your mind such that you can only respond then to their beckoned call and to their wishes. They take our own instruments and turn them against the self.
Notice how quickly when one of your youngsters was rhyming “Kill the police,” that kind of content was washed right out immediately. Yes. But what wash out occurs when they sing about shooting each other with their glocks and the other things when their content of self-destructiveness ride on the rhythm of their song, and of their dance, and when the symbols are loaded then with self-destructive elements and content?”
- Bro. Amos N. Wilson
PapaSeanX5 ^^^.........eye C as yoo C..
Gotta search on SoundCloud and TH-cam for good hip hop music nowadays.
Did anyone else freestyle every time a little instrumental came on? lol
The courage to be yourself is the essence of hip hop. - KRS One
Mainstream media is NOT the one to blame. Conscious-minded people know how the mainstream media works. We, Black people, must blame ourselves because it's NOT the first time that it has happened. We let white artists and white music historians rob rock'n'roll music from us. The old saying is: "Those who forget their past are condemned in repeating it." That old saying applies to us, Black people. Wake up, Black people!!
Very good overview. Very good. Inspiring.
Today is the *7* year anniversary of when you uploaded "What Ever Happened To Hip Hop".
EDIT- 7:43 P.M.: *finishes documentary 56 minutes later*
Unfortunately, the revolution never came. Hip hop mostly stays trapped in the underground.
The M.A. just saw this video and the public enemy documentary, and tbh it has given me a new perspective on things, at 21 currently I’ve always been aware of what hip hop used to me and originated from, but these two videos I’ve watched have showed me how us as African Americans have been crippled in all aspects, even within our own culture which has been infiltrated and ruined or vultured off of. Now hip hop is pushed out to imprison us literally and figuratively.
Excellent Documentary. Im a white guy from England and hip hop in the 80's and early 90's changed my life. Today it is not just a black struggle or a white struggle (although racism and prejudice are still rife). Today our struggle is for our collective consciousness.
As soon as you know how to talk, enlighten and teach without negativity only then will you know hip hop is. You can call this music nowadays hip hop but hip hop it will never be unfortunately. I'm happy to now and forever to be hip hop, with all respect you can keep this music nowadays. I'll stick to the empowerment of people period. 👊🏾👊🏽👊🏻👊✌🏽️
I'm a huge hip hop fan, but the beginning of this documentary makes it sound like hip hop is some far superior genre of music. It's all personal preference. Besides that, good shit. I'm glad they included the forever underrated Kool Keith to discuss hip hop.
I had a kid say to me that he envied me because I grew up as a teen in the 80s. Didn't really know what he meant until he said that he wished he could have grown up with Public Enemy, Run-DMC, De La Soul, NWA, Eric B. and Rakim and the Native Tongues. We need to make the music live again...
it's over
As an artist, musician, writer and educational consultant, it is my job to share my story and my knowledge. As a consumer it is my job to choose what is healthy and appropriate for me to consume. People get so caught up with being mouth fed that they forget to feed themselves.
Unity is unity no matter what color someone is. I believe the early hip hop was an amazing and a positive influence on art -and the spirit. And yes it was great to see black people supporting what they believe in.
But I don't agree with some of the statements in this documentary and feel there hypocritical.
Excellent video either way. A lot of great lessons to be learned.
Lemme guess you're white? Lol any form of black empowerment makes y'all so uncomfortable.
Akilina .Arina yOu gO GiRl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVED IT..made me proud to be a Hip Hop head. PEACE UNITY LOVE & HAVING FUN.
As a metalhead who like the oldschool Hip/hop, I want to find Hip Hop that not everybody listening to, I want to find new artist with their own style, I really hate today music corp bullshit. I like that fact that there are people fighting to do that.
you're dumb, theres a million people doing that. There's Chance the Rapper, Ab-soul, Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar even though hes mainstream, Jay Rock, Schoolboy q, Childish Gambino, Isaiah Rashad, theres a lot
I guessing you didnt get what I was saying did you?
AnimeFreakSasuke I got what you are saying but I also get what he is saying too. We all act as if good music was always easy to find but when you really think back. The good stuff was hard to find back in the days too. We forgot hip hop wasn't really played on MTV back then except for like an hour on MTV rap and even they were late.
I was pointing out that he should not of been a dick about it. and ya I know be I support good music in anyform.
I Hear you woman.LOL I am right there with you. You know maybe that's why we are all here on youtube trading comments.
We are here because we are not finding what we crave else where. Its like we got a taste of the really good stuff and now we are hooked. LOL What do you guys think?
Peace, Love, Happiness & having fun. .Hip HOP Nation and all its elements. .Fierce
Very Good Doc Bruh!!!!!
Im15 and love this video because i was never able to live in the golden age. So i can only listen to old songs. And i wish for Hip-Hip to return to its glory days.
its been 7 years - still into hip hop?
Hip-Hop will never be the same and will never go back to the way it was 20 years ago. The new generation that was to young when the glory days were present missed all this. Corporate America capitalized with this and changed the game to be all about Hip-POP, Clubbing, bitches and cars...etc. You even got horrible "rapper" not MC's rapping horrible commercial level lyrics on techno beats, WTF is that??? Sadly this is what everyone wants now. The real Hip-Hop is still there but Corporate controls the media and only puts the garbage on T.V. and this new age of Social Media. You gotta go underground to find the things that was once above ground. We as in the real ones went underground with the format and became mole people. The beats are still raw and the lyrics are still hard it's just no longer right in front of your face. Just like that RAW beat in the opening of this DOC. Gotta dig deep into the past to find it.
Peace, from NYC!
-TRG
Stfu
It's messed up more Than ever now in the mainstream but never forget the underground will always keep Hip Hop alive.
The only mainstream artists that are out today are Lupe and Kendrick. I think Drake, ASAP, Lil Wayne, Tyga, and all those other idiots talk about nothing but watered down filth. Can't stand any of them. The golden era was actually artistic.
Great Doc. Miss the 80's & 90's
Hip-Hop got a record deal. The rest is history!
William Portwine THANK YOU AND HIP HOP CROSSOVER WITH POO AND THINGS JUST CHANGED
Whoooooo!!!!It's Still alive fammm..word it is...u got my sub..
Has anyone noticed that most of the HipHop artists and Neo soul artists are banned from radio? And so many of them are sick., broke, or God for bid dead... Someone if them have lost their money they musically earned honestly,
Some of them are dealing with trumped up criminal charges out of nowhere! And last but not least some of them have been bankruptcied to death by their record companies... All of this was methodically planned by the 3 record companies that are around now.
Alot of true wise and inspiring things said here, great documentary
I have been saying this for years that rap music is becoming less of a representation of the culture of whoever is doing it and more about the perpetuation of American materialism much like pop music and country music. We can even see this trend emerging with metal acts and I wish it would stop for all of the genres. The music suffers greatly and we are bombarded with the message of buying things we don't need for the purpose of their status symbol.
thanks to musicman for posting/upping this, nice one, big up the conscious rappers, and all 'thoughful' musicians out there.
52:03
I didn't have to dig in the 90s though. It was offered to me via Wu-Tang, Nas, Mobb Deep, Tupac, A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, and others. All I had to do is turn on my television or radio and the socially conscious dopeness was there. NOW it is not being offered and NOW you have to dig. But in songs like "C.R.E.A.M." "Can It Be All So Simple", "If I Ruled the World", "Cold World", "Ya Playin' Yaself", "Murder Was the Case" the messages were there and they were mainstream.
Just because of what KRS One said about 2017 in this video, I subscribed. Salute to #HIPHOP!
People just gotta start supporting the real artist again and not these industry puppets money talks
This is a very important documentary for all followers of hip hop.
hip-hop to me....died with that asshole Puff combs getting in the mix
WeRightNow YEA... BUT NO PUFF, NO BIGGIE THO...
WeRightNow true
Everybody saying "hip hop is totally dead now" please stfu. I'm only 27 (a young nigga from this generation unfortunately) and I still ditc, i still chop samples and breaks, I still pay homage to 70s-90s hip hop culture, I use akai mpc, I LOVE boom bap, so all you peeps saying that shit like hip hop is dead are apart of the problem, y'all the ones who walked away from hip hop after '99, hip hop didn't go anywhere, she just went underground the so called fans started listening to other shit like techno trap etc. let hip hop live yo. keep supporting the real hip hop being released now, there are still a lot of us young hip hop heads, don't let mtv fool you.
Today rappers ain't selling millions of records like they used to
just wanted to say thank you. to the director, producer, camera man, and the people that have financed this.If we could just find a way to get balance back into Hip Hop. and deal with so many different ego's including or own's. we might have a chance. I point a finger in my face everyday to realize i'm afraid of myself. so you know im terrified of us
hip hop is dead because of laziness. Straight up. no one wants to put in work anymore.
Who produced that beat 10:00-10:30 the beats are dope on this documentary!
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It's not hip hop no more it's hip pop.
I see you haven't been looking underground...smh
more like pop hop
Preciate this more than you know. My musics been running dry and haven't been able to find anything even remotely new except immortal techniques new album. Thankyou
Videos like this are the reason emcees holdin it down for the past 10-15 years on the underground get no credit. People too lazy to look for the good shit. Oh well.....
Thank you for posting this.
KRS One dropped a prophecy 49:50 -50:19 that's str8 facts today big up to the Blast master!
This was excellent. Where can I get a DVD of this?
19:10 . They didnt use caps to spell MF DOOM's name.
R.I.P MF DOOM 🌹
bin geboren 1978,,mit 14 jahren hörte ich rap,lebte mein hip hop ,breakdance ,ich vermisse die zeit wo hip hop noch hip hop war!von den 80ern bis ende 90ern
was ist aus hip hop geworden echt schade
das was die heute machen,höre ich nicht ,ich höre nur die sachen von früher
afrika baambaata,grandmaster flash ,krs one ,public enemy ,ice t,ice cube,kool mo dee,king t,channel live , erick sermon,run dmc ......