What Is The Look Of....

In the beginning, hip hop was a thing of fun and excitement. This new art form was used for negroes to express themselves through lyric, dance, and dress. The key that seprerated Hip Hop from the mainstream media was the fact that nothing like it had ever been seen. Colors, rhythems, and style had not been seen with this magnitude since Jazz! As of recently however, most feel the culture is dying. People use the excuse that the artform has been "dumbed down" with bad dancing, sloppy dress, and all around laziness music. They say that hip hop just isent what it used to be.

But is that not the whole point of hip hop? Times have changed and the ways of old are not attractive to this new age of Hip Hoppers. Just because people dont agree with the ways of the new, does not mean the art itself is dying. The whole point of Hip Hop is to stand out of whatever is going on and do what is not being done by others. The expression is still shown through the music and dancing, just not how it used to be. And this is what i plan to show with my video. My goal is to show the paralells between the practicies of the past, and the wave of the future.