"Hip Hop Lives." -KRS-ONE

If you haven't seen this video, view it immediately:

KRS-ONE & MARLEY MARL - HIP HOP LIVES (2007)

Because the Harlem Shake viral videos have made a joke out of a real dance, and a low-income area that is rich in history, I figure it's important to reaffirm that hip hop is still alive. There are forces watering it down, but hip hop lives.


Here are lyrics from the song about HIP HOP:


Hip means "to know" it's a form of intelligence.
To be hip means is "to be update and relevant."

Hop is a form of movement
You can't just observe a hop, you gotta hop up and do it.

Hip and Hop is more than music.

Hip is the knowledge
Hop is the movement.
Hip and Hop is intelligent movement.
Or relevant movement
We selling them music.

So write this down on your blackbooks and journals:
Hip Hop Culture is Eternal

Run and tell all your friends,
An ancient civilization has been born again.


These are the lyrics of KRS-ONE.
He's expressing the view that Hip Hop is ancient. Different people's scope of hip hop is different, so some people might think it's just music, some just fashion. For some it goes deeper than that. It's like some timeless, borderless, formless Bruce Lee shit. Many think hip hop is some commercial shit, which it is ALSO. There's an entrepreneurial side, a sort of hustler mentality.

But now that it's here, IT'LL REMAIN HERE, from '73 til infinity.


HIP HOP
Her Infinite Power Helping Oppressed People

Holy Integrated People Having Omnipresent Power


I have more to say, but will save for later, and wrap it up for now.