Five Minutes With...Keli Goff • Campus Progress

Hip hop was born in the late 1970s, and back then, it was a movement of the people. Graffiti art, break dancing, emcee battles, and rap music were all a new kind of grassroots activism�"it all grew from the streets. From Grand Master Flash’s depiction of the urban jungle in “The Message” to N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitudes)’s often controversial descriptions of street life in Los Angeles, the music of hip hop has always focused on the difficult realities of urban life. In more recent years mainstream hip hop has become less about politics and more about scantily clad women in music videos. Today there are still people within the "hip hop generation" who have made loud political declarations, but in an unpredictable way.

http://campusprogress.org/5mw/2957/redefining-the-hip-hop-generation

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