From Hip Hop To Brit Hop: A Controversial Journey
Is hip hop really the catalyst for low qualifications, high teen pregnancy, psychological and spiritual issues and the emerging ASBO culture of our youth today? Or is hip hop the excuse politicians and pre ASBO generations use to avoid facing accusations of bad parenting, poor education systems, neglected mental and health problems and the glamorisation of other media forms passed on throughout the years that really contributes to youth crime?
You may be wondering how this all came about: Why someone would be sad or geeky enough to spend their Thursday afternoon in front of a computer with a cup of green tea and pink fluffy bunny slippers writing about a topic with a million one perspectives.
Well, other than not having a penny to my name thanks to a stingy overdraft and a peanut paying job, one can not think of a better way to start the weekend via exercising the mind and attempting to conquer a subject that has been either neglected or misunderstood by various spectrums of society.
From Hip Hop to Brit hop investigates the possible correlation between hip hop culture and youth crime in the UK. Focusing on the birth and evolution of hip hop, its migration from North America to the UK, the relationship the art form has with commercialised media such as record labels and those who consume the genre, namely young people and the barely young like myself.
Join me on a journey that’ll entail a series of turbulent questions, surprising statistics, theatrical and controversial theories and opulent opinions. Read through each article and have your say by adding your thoughts to the blogs.
Become part of the Brit hop movement. Make history, make a difference...make me a sandwich!
Stay blessed,
Nadia Gasper.
Comments
Postive and negative
Like with many songs, poems, stories, some report the bad, and others the negative! In the end, it is all freedom of speech, as at some point, somebody has lived it! There is some very derogatory forms of hip hop, and it fuses the small minded of this world! I think that should be diverted out of the industry along with the artist encouraging it! It promotes labelling and segregation, and any thing that does that in my eyes is wrong! We should all learn to love and help each other. We are all equal, and we should act and be treated in such a way!
HIP HOP
Yvonne Mc Calla
not a cataylst-but an expression. Gangs existed long before check the prohibition gangs in USA. The Kray Brothers is the West End. Gang culture eisted long before Hip Hop & will continue to exist long after. Rather than running after red herrings we need to discuss the way the education system sets up children to fail or fails them competely. As a mother of 3 children who have all been through the system I have found myself fighting a battle with the education system for everyone of them. Two of which where Grade a students...still could chat more on this subject ....got to get back to work
Yvonne
hip hop positive or negative influence?
Is it the catalyst to all kind sof evil or is it just reporting this stuff? A tough one. I guess I feel it is not the only dialogue held in the black communities but it is the dialogue most publicised and consumed...
Very interesting subject
Very interesting subject matter but I would like to add that Hip Hop/Rap is an art form, which has helped many people who would not normally be noticed make a difference. People need to move on and realise that anti-social behaviour, Thug Life and all that genre was here before Hip Hop/Rap ever exsisted. Think of all the gangs in the states, Hells Angels, Rockers and cult gangs. In Britain we had Mods, Teddy boys, to name but a few. The lack of constructive Role models, and the avoidance to teach our rich history does not help.
As for Tupac Shakur, he was a rose that grew from the concrete. PEACE