Hip Hop Saved Me.

I often get asked, "What got you so into Hip-Hop" simply because those who don't truly love the Art of Expression will never quite understand. Hip Hop is not just "music" Hip Hop is a culture, a movement. Something birthed from all of us. To some, it's whats blasting on their radios. To others, it's inside of us, it stays with us daily. It cannot be turned down or muted, paused or skipped. What about those who profess their love for Hip Hop but can not deliver the love to actually contribute much to it.

Have you taken the time to learn? Have you looked deep into the roots of "Hip Hop" ? You claim you love it, get to know it...

HIP HOP IS A MOVEMENT! HIP HOP IS A CULTURE!
Wake up! Hip Hop is deeper then Jay-Z. Hip Hop is deeper then Lil Wayne.

Do you even know what the elements of Hip Hop are? These are the pillars that hold it together!

Djing: In the early years of hip hop, the DJs were the stars, but their limelight has been taken by MCs since 1978, thanks largely to Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash's crew, the Furious Five.

Rapping: also known as Emceeing, MCing, Rhyme spitting, Spitting, or just Rhyming, is the rhythmic delivery of rhymes one of the central elements of hip hop music and culture Although the word rap has sometimes been claimed to be a backronym of the phrase "Rhythmic American Poetry", "Rhythm and Poetry", "Rhythmically Applied Poetry", or "Rhythmically Associated Poetry", use of the word to describe quick and slangy speech or repartee long predates the musical form

Graffiti: The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises both from early graffiti artists practicing other aspects of hip hop, and its being practiced in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms. Graffiti is recognized as a visual expression of rap music, just as breaking is viewed as a physical expression.

Beatboxing: The art form enjoyed a strong presence in the '80s with artists like the Darren "Buffy, the Human Beat Box" Robinson of the Fat Boys and Biz Markie showing their beatboxing skills. Beatboxing declined in popularity along with break dancing in the late '80s, and almost slipped even deeper than the underground. Beatboxing has been enjoying a resurgence since the late '90s, marked by the release of "Make the Music 2000." by Rahzel of The Roots

Breaking: B-boying is one of the major elements of hip hop culture, commonly associated with, but distinct from, "popping", "locking", "hitting", "ticking", "boogaloo", and other funk styles that evolved independently during the late 1960s in California.