HIP HOP for LIFE

Doctor John Henrik Clarke world renowned historian said the relationship between history and a people is the same as the relationship between mother and child. I from my personal observations and those of others tend to concur .
Today the focus of this scribe is the music and the oral tradition. Over the Milena African peoples developed the spoken word through ritual tradition and necessity .People don't understand the basis for the written and oral tradition are African inventions "fact". Conventional teachings place the Greeks as the source when they themselves admit that they were first and foremost student of Egypt.

In that skewed tradition African culture has suffered across the board;for instance Blues ,Jazz,Rock.......... on down the line. When people ask me about Hip Hop and why I feel the need to protect it's integrity ; I tell them this music is the culmination of our Milena old struggle to refine our ability to communicate. I know some of you are saying to yourselves "I don't even like hip hop" and all of you are missing the point.
Hip Hop music is the fullest extent of the oral tradition the voice and the drum. The music encompasses all other genres and in so doing has revealed it self as unbridled expression. The honesty is sometimes brutal yes but at the same time in the capable hand of a truly conscious MC's the music can become a tool that impacts and changes lives for the better.

I see commercialism as the main cloud threatening to destroy any vestiges of hope that real artist with something to say will ever see the light; on the flip side the Internet has the potential to wrest that power from the major labels and place it back in the hand of the artist.
The nature of hip hop is to speak truth to power and that is why the art must be protected as Big brother eyes become wider and more intrusive we will need that voice when all others fail. Those of us that know the true power of the music must pass it on to future generations. We must instill upon them the ability to listen as well as the ability to speak in so doing hope for the hopeless will always exist. Long live HIP HOP.