Its not supposed to

Hip-Hop will always be my #1 favorite music genre. That being said, as a community, it has done nothing for us.

Think about how it originated! I personally believe the cia had a lot to do with gangsta rap! But that’s what’s being promoted you still have people out there with powerful lyrics but these record labels are not going to promote someone to go against the system!!!!!!!

Waiting room music is better now

these be what Kendrick Lamar fans say when they wake up🤣🤣🤣🤣

Gave a voice to the voiceless. Ice Cube was saying “F The Police” 30 years before Black Lives Matter was even a thing.

It is a billion dollar industry

*has

Hiphop has done one very unique thing and that’s normalize black people and black culture in such a way that its become much more embraced and invited bc it’s marketable and trendy now. Which is not a perfect or always good thing to be clear BUT it does mean people ask me where I got my durag instead of why I’m wearing it.

Hip has it positives but honestly, within the past 20 yrs, it's been more negative than positive and of course i grew up on hip hop and love it but we have to be honest here. Hip hop is 1 of the reasons why bw today maeurisms are akin to a man