Femenim...in Europe they call her Lady Sovereign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMTB8YwILY
But hip hop is not dead, hip hop never died and it will always be a mainstay of our american "culture" if it could ever be defined as such....it will always be here like reggae music in Jamaica. its sound has been spread internationally to europe, to russia and all the way to Japan. along with it's other representative forms like "free-syling", "beat-boxing", turn-tablism and scratching, graffiti-art and breakdancing. it even influences us through low-riders, graffiti-art style fonts on vinyl stickers and graffiti-art painted bays.
there is a difference between Rap and Hip-hop, they are NOT synonymous with each other and and are not the same thing. KRS-ONE defined it the best "Rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live". And people live it through those expressions I described above mixed in with alot of "street-knowledge" and hustling.
I think the recording industry is becoming a victim of itself, hip hop is going strong, it's just not on the radios. And big recording studios are not willing to take the risk of experimenting. that's why we have the lil Johns and lil waynes and Mase.....there shit is just candy, all glitter and so real stories, feel or substance....it's fucking flithy pop music is all it is. Hip hop is being produced independently, it's being performed at non-mainsteam clubs. Its everywhere if you know where to look and if you are in it.
Just like us and our custom cars....the average Joe wouldn't know where to look or even know how to begin even if they wanted too, we do this shit and see it every damn day and act like its nothing.
this is what I am listening too right now.
ill heads ft. telep & ono
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_2107263
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