Hip Hop Matters(140-205)

Summary
Technology played a big part in the music business. Usually it was just the rappers rapping for the people but it turned into them rapping for their company and for their contracts because you needed it so you can stay in the business and so they can sign you. But lately instead of the music being on the album only and being played on the t.v it ended up on the internet. By their music being on the internet people can easily download the music without buying the cd which many people do. So many songs was download of the computer. Later on young artists started to bloom out and it was amazing. Even though you had Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Ice T, and many more out the people started to fall in love with the young artists as well. Russell Simmons been through many things, but he got himself together and instead of doing something bad he turned that around and started to do the right things for the community and for people who need help. He was the biggest business person in the world. Many people looked up to him and he was so professional about everything. But things started to change a man named Chavis Muhammad started to get letters saying that he is not hip hop and what he is doing is not cool. He says that he does not judge and that he let young kids do their music, but he is getting letters saying how are you going to let little kids like ten of age say N***** or B**** that is not cool as the people would say. As of now Eminem or as they called him Slim Shady was really big. Everyone loved him and he started to work with 50 Cent and Missy Elliot. There are many more to come.


Quote
A quote I decided to pick is "He is not judgmental, he sees the goodness of kids and makes the kids see the beauty in their ideas. To have Ben on my team is the most credible stamp of approval"(Watkins 153). I decided to pick this quote because it stood out as I was reading it. It makes so much since. If someone wants to express themselves then let them. Simmons he said this quote about Chavis because that is what he believed and Simmons was not mad at that and it is good to have someone in the world like that and in the industry. If you have more people like that, then more people would love to do more music.


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So far I think that the music business industry had its ups and downs but it is getting better and better. I find it very interesting that it was like this in the music business. I thought people had it easy and that it was easy overall, but it wasn't it was really hard and you had to work for it.