Hip-Hop Culture? Both kids and young adults....?

It seems like there are wannabe rappers from all over the world now. However they, tend to use a lot of the same slang and styles.





My question is, where do these kids and adults that have not grown up in diverse communites come up with these hip-hop personalities, styles, and mannerisms.





There's kids and young adults in N. Dakota acting like there from the hood.





This is so fake.....there so much fakeness in hip-hop here in the state and worldwide. Yes, I know that all hip-hop isnot the same, but generally speaking they want to come off hard, when they were never brought up that way.....





What do you think?

Hip-Hop Culture? Both kids and young adults....?
I think it is ridiculous and I will not have my children going around like that. When I was very young we were quite poor and I definitely want better for my kids than that. If you act like you are from the hood, you are either going to end up in the hood(or a trailer park) or your going to stay there.
Reply:don't make me start on the hillbillies and head-bangers who are fake. I could go on forever about those wanna-be's.
Reply:its hip-hop.... hip-hop has its own style, people who love it copy from it, just like the heavy metal lovers. how is it fake? its just music. now if ur talkin about the lyrics[ ex: young jeezy-my hood] thats real......i dont get how it s fake.
Reply:Totally agree. Its funny really. Like older white people with rims on their Yukons. Or the comercials using hip-hop slangs. Come on, I'm like, get your own style.
Reply:Hip Hop is a culture just like any other culture. It is spread via music, internet, television and movies. It is not being fake it participating in a culture. That culture just so happens to stem from the urban black experience.
Reply:people r just trying 2 being hip hopish becuz they r trying 2 fit in


they r just trying 2 b kool


hooevere is doing that is probably just trying 2 find their place





and sometimes that is some peoples reall personality
Reply:omg are u serious? meet a hip-hop artist and ask them why are they liars in their musical artwork....and see what happens.
Reply:OMG! I absolutely understand what you are saying. We call it culture robbing. It's not just hip-hop that you see it with though. There are so many people out there that will look you straight-faced and claim they are so many parts Indian, but are lying like yellow dogs on a muddy welcome mat.





It is so prevalent in the hip-hop culture that it ain't even funny anymore. There are so many that claim they are like this or like that and I say to that; you have no clue what it's like to grow up like that.





Here's one that gets me, Eric Clapton...I know he doesn't claim to be from the hood or anything like that, but the blues? Come on now, no one can do the blues like the king. BB King that is. Michael Bolton, what did he say again, you don't have to be black to have soul? Yeah, right! Otis Redding, if he were still alive, would sing Bolton right back to wherever he came from.





And what about...you know what, that's enough, because I've just stepped up on a soap box and started and can't stop.





This is just something I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees it. I see it everyday in my class. One student will say this or another student will do this. It's nerve racking, I tell you, NERVE RACKING!





























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Reply:u dont know, u assume it. look up the biographies of some hip-hop artists, read/listen to their lyrics and determine if ur "assumtion" is true or not
Reply:I don't know people from around the world but as far as the actual hip hop artists I think most of them are fakes, phonies, only out for money and not realizing the affect of what they are doing
Reply:I'm from South Dakota and I feel the same way that you do. In the big towns I run across wanna-be's that just make me cringe, but in the small towns there is enough stigma with it you can only get away with it with out being teased by everyone is if you're Black. Then it's okay, which is kinda weird. I think it comes from media culture though. MTV and the like. I, and most of my friends, would rather stick to how we're brought up as far as clothing and speech. I wouldn't want to speak like a rapper because I know I'd make a fool of myself. I know the whole rapper culture rose out of an American sub-culture, but I don't speak like I do around town when I go out of state.