What is Hip-Hop?

What is Hip Hop?

Being that this genre of music has touched so many people around the world it becomes a little difficult to find one singular answer to what Hip-Hop is. That's exactly why this post isn't about whether Hip Hop is dead or Alive. This post is about what Hip-Hop is to me. In my opinion, Hip-Hop is a genre of music where specifically structured poetry recited over music. See how general that is. With that definition you could get anybody and any beat toss it together and call it Hip-Hop. For example, Ass Like That-Eminem over the beat from Poker Face -Lady Gaga can still be considered Hip-Hop. Back to the rhythmic poetry thing. You can easily argue that someone singing (as opposed to reciting) a poem over music can be Hip-Hop. That argument has merit, but....nah. To be Hip Hop the song has to have rapping. Another thing I want to say is that I wrote this to help get a universally accepted definition of Hip-Hop because, only then can we decide whether it is dead or not. I Just wanted to share that  (my opinion) with the good tourists of DB's World.



So what I want to ask now is................... What is Hip Hop?