This is Encouraging to Me!

The Rap scene needs to be relegated to the cesspools from whence they oozed from...just my opinion, Sir!

While I agree that the attitude towards women and violence of the hip hop culture has help lead to its downfall, I don't think its only that. Some of what we are seeing is the loss of sales by illegal downloading and sharing. The ironic part is that this industry loss may be partially self inflicted as well. The hip hop community loves to blame "the man" for every ill in existence. This often racist disdain for authority promotes shrugging off personal responsibilities and finding scams or underground means to achieve goals. The "thug life" doesn't wish to be legitimete until maybe when one has wealth and must.

The consequence of this is a market segment that wants to achieve the product for free. Why should they pay "the man?" Clearly, promoting this life style was an error doomed to catch up with promoters who are also business people. I'm not sure they are good business people. The sucessful ones may merely be adequate ones who road a trend. The current level of investment may separate some of them.

As this hip hop cultural movement spread to other cultures, one might have foreseen that it wouldn't last. Ok, these cultures are all really sub cultures. It wasn't born of those cultures. The loyalty wouldn't last. As it attempted to erode those cultures, normal social reflexes would take place. This doesn't even account for the targeted audience which is nestled in a fickle age grouping. But this wasn't the only mistake.

In the 1990s and true to the article, more moderate voices in the hip hop culture were pushed aside for the shock effect often seen in main stream media. The thing about shock is that it wears off. People get used to the blasts and become unimpressed. The effect wears off as fast as a concussive wave. "If it bleeds, it leads," becomes boring and audience attention diminishes. We see this trend in other locations. Let's call it Chicken Little Detachment Syndrome.

Once again, we see a movement that failed to think ahead and wrapped or rapped itself in hypocritical liberal trappings thinking that family values were an unwanted burden. While pushing limits may sometimes be a needed function. Only a self destructive fool lives in such a mode. The neighborhoods loyal to the hip hop culture and other failed or failing movements we know so well speak of this.