Preserving The Art Of Hip Hop!!

There seems to be an effort to preserve the Art of Hip Hop. There is a growing number of organizations and free thinkers who are tired of the corporate controlled hip hop that seeks to advertise to consumers. Rap songs that lack true artistry and add no value to society are now questioned. We cannot sit around and continue to create only "bangers, club anthems and love songs”. We need songs that seek to inspire growth. There are so many issues that must be addressed and we as hip hop artists have a responsibility to use our voices as revolutionary daggers. As our dear brother Amiri Baraka said, "We Want Poems That Kill".

By Richard Raw

Check out Harvard University's W.E.B Du Bois Hip Hop Archive Institute Fellow and Rap Music Follower Tahir Hemphills Hip Hop word count, an online searchable database with over 40,000 Hip Hop songs from 1979 to present.

The Hip-Hop Archive and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University announced today the inception of the Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship. According to the press release, the fellowship will help fund future exceptional Hip Hop artists:

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