Because Hip Hop is such a part of Urban Black culture in 2013 I feel it is necessary for us to dismantle the genre to better understand how it began, how it's evolved, and how it has affected the Black community.
The documentary 'Hip Hop' beyond the beats and rhymes ', is a great way to begin this process. It is an expose on the music and those who create and perform it.
It examines the state of Hip Hop and why it's evolution had become, for the most part, detrimental to the community. The emphasis on violence, misogyny, homophobia, and consumerism permeates the music. The misguided and misplaced images of manhood, power, sex and success are constants and promoted in Hip hop.
The values of the Slave Mentality are reinforced and substantiated when aspiring young Black male rappers are rewarded for perpetuating the stereotypes that are demonstrative of the worst of the Black community.
They are being paid by those outside of the community to slowly destroy their own.
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