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I don't do it for the cars and the fancy drops
I do it for HIP HOP... I do it for HIP HOP... I do it for HIP HOP...
And I don't do it for the chains and the flashing rocks
I do it for HIP HOP... I do it for HIP HOP... I do it for HIP HOP...
- I Do It For Hip-Hop - Ludacris feat. Jay Z & Nas
Lately people have been asking me how I managed to maintain in the what-have-you-done-lately business of Hip-Hop for 20 years. What drives me to continually put in work year after year, especially with the current state of hip-hop, as a rapper, writer/ journalist, a professional hip-hop junkie that has now added author to his extensive resume?
Why do I keep doin’ may part to preserve the culture and document the history, when it seems like no one cares? The simple answer is I love hip-hop but like Chris Rock said is last HBO special, it’s getting harder and harder to defend it.
I Do love hip-hop, I still believe in it and what it has been and can be again. In its purest form, in its essence hip-hop can uplift, encourage and educate as well as entertain a new generation as well and the world. So I carry the weight and hold it down for hip-hop even when some of my peers appear to be in it for what they can get out of it.
Now don’t get it twisted I am not advocating all the negative imagery being force-fed to our youth on major radio stations and video shows. The negative images make us look bad as a people, while many of those who brag and boast of how bad they are, livin’ out the gangsta fantasies.
Many of the very ones give it to you raw or real as they put it are the very ones who ain't got the heart to speak what’s truly in their hearts but cave in to the corporations that pimp them. How ironic is it that the so called studio pimps are really the ones being pimped, cause when their usefulness to over they are discarded like the morning trash.
Everyone who says they are down for hip-hop arne't always willin' to do what it takes to take it to the next level. We have always been a people that take whats given to us and flipping it for our benefit. It's time we take hip-hop back!
This is for my real hip-hop heads that put in work year after year. That make a difference who dare to be different, lead instead of following played out and over done trends! For the founding members who paid the price and drew up the blueprint for many with no sense of history or respect for the originals to eat and eat well.
Why do I keep doin’ may part to preserve the culture and document the history, when it seems like no one cares? The simple answer is I love hip-hop but like Chris Rock said is last HBO special, it’s getting harder and harder to defend it.
I Do love hip-hop, I still believe in it and what it has been and can be again. In its purest form, in its essence hip-hop can uplift, encourage and educate as well as entertain a new generation as well and the world. So I carry the weight and hold it down for hip-hop even when some of my peers appear to be in it for what they can get out of it.
Now don’t get it twisted I am not advocating all the negative imagery being force-fed to our youth on major radio stations and video shows. The negative images make us look bad as a people, while many of those who brag and boast of how bad they are, livin’ out the gangsta fantasies.
Many of the very ones give it to you raw or real as they put it are the very ones who ain't got the heart to speak what’s truly in their hearts but cave in to the corporations that pimp them. How ironic is it that the so called studio pimps are really the ones being pimped, cause when their usefulness to over they are discarded like the morning trash.
Everyone who says they are down for hip-hop arne't always willin' to do what it takes to take it to the next level. We have always been a people that take whats given to us and flipping it for our benefit. It's time we take hip-hop back!
This is for my real hip-hop heads that put in work year after year. That make a difference who dare to be different, lead instead of following played out and over done trends! For the founding members who paid the price and drew up the blueprint for many with no sense of history or respect for the originals to eat and eat well.
I do it for them, for Flash, Bam, Herc, CC4, T3, F4, Funky 4 + 1, Crash Crew, for KRS, MC Lyte, Chuck D, for those who have lived and died for Hip Hop! I do it for them. I do it for you,I do it for Hip-Hop and like Puff, ma and everyone like me Will Never Stop and like KRS We Will Be Here FOREVER! We Will never go anywhere!
For the fans that appreciate real hip-hop around the world. The artists whose voice are never heard cause they refuse to dumb it down, and do whatever everyone else is doin' All my real Hip0-Hop Heads STAND UP!
For you I keep puttin' in work. Cause It does make SENSE even when it doesn't make dollars. For them, For you, For me.... I Do It For Da People! I DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!
I DO IT FOR HIP-HOP!!!
Have A Blessed Day!!!!!
A.J. Woodson
Freelance Hip hop Journalist
and Professional Hip-Hop Junkie
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