What is Hip-Hop?

What do you think of when you hear the name "Hip-hop"? Do you think of loud and annoying music pouring out of the souped-up Bose sound system in the latest and largest SUV? Do think of incomprehensible lyrics slapped haphazardly over a canvas of scantily-clad, oversexed women and stacks of money, drugs, and a variety of firearms? Is it possible that you think of backwards baseball caps, obscenely oversized jerseys, and gravity defying baggy jeans? …

…hard headed "hustler" is what todays youth lives to hear. 50 Cent and other artist use their past life as a way to sell records, by creating drama, rather then being talented on the microphone. It is vital to notice the affects that rap is having on people today, most importantly on the youths. Youths are being brainwashed by the media and society as a whole that things like money, drugs and violence is perfectley normal.