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Brian Chanthapanya Professor Newland English 101 02 November 2003 Hip-Hop First of all not many rap artists and fans out there know what the true meaning of Hip-Hop is. Can you even call them artists? They just rhyme their ways in search of cash and hoes and not the love for Hip-Hop. They just don’t know the true culture. It goes deeper then rhyming about your Lincoln Navigator “rolling” on “twenty-inch dubs”. Hip-Hop was manifested out of four elements. The four elements of Hip-Hop are b-boying, graffiti, dj-ing, and lastly emceeing or commonly known as rapping. With out these elements, they shouldn’t even classify what they call their music as Hip-Hop. Emcees used to make their records with passion, with their lyrics based on their life experiences, emotions and aspirations. Now most of Hip-Hop like this remains underground, but if it’s not like that, can we still call it hip-hop? The majority of mainstream (commercialized) Hip-Hop lyricists use their fortunes and girls to create records. I think this is a decaying state to the Hip-Hop culture. Hamelock Nelson states that, “The quality of rap music has suffered a serious condition of commercialism” (1). Basically, the key to get into main