Hip Hop Matters(85-140)

Summary
Hip Hop was all coming from African Americans, but later on there became a twist in the Hip Hop world. An artist named Eminem started to come out. As soon as he came out there was already some problems. In 2003 the beef was revealed The Source magazine's Raymond or as they called him Benzino Scott and Eminem. In a rap battle he had a song called "Die another Day" and David Duke called him a "culture stealer". When Eminen heard he came back with a "dis track" and called him a fake gangster. The Benzino found two raps that Eminem did that was being racist and he planned to release it at the press conference so everyone can hear it. Then later on he admits that it was him and he said it was when he was younger and he just broke up with his girlfriend who was African American. He was not doing that to be racist it was when he was a kid and it is his mistake for doing that. Later on he became really big on his first album already in the millions. Then later on his life story came out and people became really interested in him. But within that Benzino called him Vanilla Ice in 2003. After that they was basically saying that white people have no talent and should not be in the rap industry at all. That they was cultural theft. Then people started to understand Eminem and his music and his flow. Dr. Dre decided to try something new and sign him.

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A quote i decided to pick was "I didn't want to rap about I'm this or I'm that' all the time"(Watkins 115-116). I decided to pick this quote because this quote because in the hip hop most of the rappers do that. Sometimes it gets annoying and other times it is interested to listen to. But in the hip hop industry the ones that do that are the ones who are cocky the most and only worry about their money.


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I honestly didn't know that hip hop was really like this and it went through this. Honestly I would rather listen to R&B than rap music. The reason why is because rap I find it annoying sometimes and other times some of the songs doesn't make any sense. This book is really good so far and to see that there was so much drama in the industry and so much backstabbing and people wanting greed in the industry and just trying to make a living. That is what this book shows and it is amazing on what they went through to get where they are now.