I feel you on that Soulja Boy comment, if you read my first blog, I touch on that. And you’re right, I wish at 7 in the morning I could really say what I need to say but the coffee hasn’t quite kicked in yet.

Thanks for stopping thru the site!

Jen

Great question. I think if you spit bars over beats, its hip-hop. Period. The thing I love about this thing called hip-hop is that it has so many layers and so many styles. All of them are valid.

Some rappers move the genre forward, some do not. Look here - like many, I think Soulja Boy is garbage. But I don’t question his right to put out records or mixtapes. And like it or not, this man changed the game throught his online and ringtone hustle. So I give the man his due. And yes, Soulja Boy is hip-hop.

If you are rapping over a beat, its hip-hop. We can debate the quality of the lyrics, the flow, the originality, etc. We can argue all day about who’s the best MC: Biggie, Jay-Z or Nas. We can question whether a beat is hot.

But its all hip-hop.

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