Has “Hip Hop Failed Black America”

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Questlove say hip hop has taken over black music even though there is not many hip hop performers at the top of the charts.  You will see Jay Z, Kanye West, Drake and new comer Kendrick Lamar and that is about it.  On the women side you have pop artist Beyonce and Rihanna who has been label hip hop because of their association with hip hop artist.  In the 80's you could count the number of black artist there weren't hip hop on two hands.  Artist like Michael Jackson, Prince, Tracy Chapman, Living Colour and Lionel Richie.  In 1989 hip hop was very present their was De La Soul, Geto Boys, EPMD, Ice T, Boogie Down Production and Queen Latifah. Hip Hop has become an entire culture movement any fashion put forth by black people is considered hip hop. Do hip hop fashion refers to clothes popularize by hip hop artist(?)then there is nonsense: hip hop food, hip hop politics, hip hop intellectual and hip hop architecture.  Quest has one fear with this development is that individual who wish to eradicate the Black culture would need only to squelch one genre to effectively silence and entire culture.

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