MJ Hann is A Hip Hop Producer from South Wales, UK who is about preserving the true essence of Hip Hop Culture.
In order to preserve the true nature of Hip Hop for generations ahead, the youth that are getting into Hip Hop today need to be aware of how Hip Hop arrived in the South Bronx and it's history. As most of us know, Hip Hop arrived during a financial crisis, when funding for music classes in schools had been pulled. With widespread poverty and violence on the Bronx's streets.
Early Hip Hop didn't want anything to do with mainstream culture and the parents of Early Hip Hoppers wanted inclusion into American society (the civil rights argument). To preserve our integrity in Hip Hop, I feel we shouldn't have to use these corrupt commerical outlets to prosper off our own intellectual properties, thus making Hip Hop culture harder to expropriate.
"Because the mainstream has such a fascination with urban culture, they begin to focus on certain facets of the culture and adopt it as their own"
-Davey D-
"many people who want to politically and civically engage young people see Hip Hop Culture as the best avenue to accomplish these goals"
"Hip Hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon, not a weapon to violate or not a weapon to offend, but a weapon that pushes the envelope that provokes people, makes people think."
-Todd Boyd-
"To me, Hip Hop is an urban cultural reaction for the experience of being overtly and covertly marginalized by a fully enfranchised white American majority."
-Carol Cooper-
"For many young peple, regardless of race, colour or economic standing, Hip Hop culture is the voice of their often misunderstood and misinterpreted generation.A voice that, up until now, was generally ignored"
-Todd Elliot-
"Hip Hop is always beautiful to me because it always challenges America's notion of what they believe young, disenfranchised people to be"
-Mos Def
"Politically... I beg to differ in the views of freedom. We are victims of a capitalist system. As workers we are exploited. As people we have no power over our own lives. No self-determination and no ability to reproduce the things we need for ourselves. So we are dependent in people who historically have beaten us, jailed us, lied to us etc. I don't see any freedom in that."
-Stic.Man from Dead Prez-
"In American culture, the affirmative impulses of Hip Hop are all but completely overshadowed by the negative connotations of gangsterism, sexism, and consumerism. Women are exhibited and exploited and thugs are admired as empowered and in control. But when Hop Hop started during the 1970s in the South Bronx, it was a movement of self-expression and self-actualization, advocating personal dignity and validating personal experience in the face of urban poverty, violence and disenfranchisement."
-Caroline Small
"To have the opportunity for the 'Bling-Bling' era & to have the opportunity for the 'Conscious' era and have the opportunity of people mixing it together this is all a part of the art & all art to me. It's like a painter; every painter can't paint the same. Every painter paints different, so everybody has a different stroke. But all painters criticize each other's paintings. That's what makes it art, that's what makes it interesting. Is that everybody has an opinion '. It gives it an opportunity to grow & lead the house of Hip Hop to be much stronger than Rock & Roll music, to me & my opinion."
-CL Smooth-
"They all keep on because they have comfort in numbers, numbers that result from the propaganda that everyone buys into. Lies are now being exposed to the point where people are basically choosing to believe what they WANT to believe, not necessarily the truth. So a lot of times the division line falls along racial and class lines"
-Paris-
"I think the powers that be, whether its the government, labels, or who knows who, it seems like they had a little meeting and decided to get rid of all the Hip Hop that was threatening or underground. They basically are only letting a certain amount of acts live, which are the commercial acts. Im not knocking those acts at all, because those kids got to eat. They have been able to do away with, for instance, the Gang Starrs, the BDPs, the Rakims, the Black Moons, and so forth. Its basically commercial or bust."
Dray from Das EFX
"Although, from afar, I have liked EMINEM meeting him once in Atlanta my evaluation is reversed to many of these cats. I know better to say I like somebody based on their art, movie, TV show or record. Saying I like somebody doesnt mean I respect them, and this is beyond their skill or how much money theyve got. I cant say I respect EMINEM at all, I like DRE I cant say Ive respected him as much. Same with SNOOP, MASTER P, LUDA, R KELLY, THE SOURCE and many others. I happen to like them more than respect them, whereas they may feel more respect than like for me or my beliefs on things.And that's fine I guess but like and respect are two different things. Respect only comes with integrity, and that's not necessary to exist in today's amerikkkan cultural world."
-Chuck D-
"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely."
-Malcolm X-
"Yeah, you really got my act down good, guys. That'll be great. You know, when I'm done ranting about elite power that rules the planet under a totalitarian government that uses the media in order to keep people stupid, my throat gets parched. That's why I drink orange drink."
-Bill Hicks- (After being asked to do an advertisement for orange drink)
"I might point out here that colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources."
-Malcolm X-
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
-Robert Francis Kennedy-
"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."
-Benjamin Disraeli- in 1876 (1st British Prime Minister)
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
-Woodrow Wilson- in 1914 (in The New Freedom)
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler- (Mein Kampf "My Struggle" Vol. I)
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
-William E. Dodd- in 1937 (U.S. Ambassador to Germany)
"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow, they will be grateful! This would especially be true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government."
-Henry Kissinger- in 1991 (at the Bilderberg Conference, Evians, France)
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
-Theodore Roosevelt-
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