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Offlineatomikfunksoldier
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HipHop and social r/evolution
      05/26/03 08:34 PM

as we wander through our banal consumer existance, people always wonder

when will there be a new age of enlightenment, ushered in by revolutionary poets, artists and philosophers?

well my friends, look no further than your local record store, or the nearest alley and you will see that the new renaissance has all ready materialized.

it has a name: hiphop.

I throw on a track by Mr. Lif, and instead of hearing the emotionally-laden, pretentious lyrics of your average rock song, I hear philosophical musings and social commentary:

The master dreams of a society twisted
One cult with everyone enlisted
Clingin to religion just to feel uplifted
Brother I can feel your aggression
Life on a whole is in question
We ignore what we don't mention
To err is human, but the road we're assumin
Stops all things from breathing and the flowers from bloomin
Now I'm no historian, but I recall
That ALL
Civilizations fall
We give up our control but we suffer from withdrawal
We learn how to walk now we're too proud to crawl
[You thinking large?]
(We need to think small)
[Man first the universe]
(That's the ultimate brawl)

then I'm like......shit, this muthafucka is fresh!, my mind is so blown by this poets super-energized "conscious" lyrics, that I have to go outside to get some fresh air, then what do I see? a man spinning on his head, listening to the same song........oh....shit....

what has happened to reality, I run down the street, I try to ground myself...oh, I'll just look at all the dilapidated housing that IS my reality!

oh fuck!

some dude is listening to the same song, and has transformed the once ugly, barren concrete wasteland into a beautiful, complex, mind-blowing peice of art.....ahh shit!

what has happened to my dysotopian ghetto?, these crazy kids have turned it into an uber-creative utopian playland!

hiphop. hiphop is what happens when an individualistic, capitalist, super-competitive society contains individuals with nothing do to but live in the moment and try to be as free as can be.

hiphop adherants, like the graffiti artist, have flipped the capitalist attitude of competitive living on its head.

hiphop is our most powerful modern social revolution. Sure its been co-opted by corporations and tainted for the mainstream, but once something like hiphop (as demonstrated by graffiti) starts, it can never stop until it becomes the dominant paradigm.

hiphop is the ongoing battle for control of our mental environments. The more corporations try to flood our sight with advertisements for useless products, the more graffiti artists will flood the streets with bright colours that hold subversive and positive messages.

in the words of the RZA

Positive
Energy
Activates
Constant
Elevation



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enjoy the entertaining indentity i have constructed for you while you can.

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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Revelation   05/26/03 09:21 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/26/03 09:29 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 12:21 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:24 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 12:27 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:29 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 12:33 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:37 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution infidelGOD   05/27/03 12:40 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 12:44 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 12:45 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution infidelGOD   05/27/03 12:51 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:54 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:57 AM
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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 01:04 AM
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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 01:33 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 01:38 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Grav   05/27/03 04:01 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Smack31   05/27/03 05:55 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 06:09 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Grav   05/27/03 08:22 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/28/03 11:55 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Amnesiac   05/28/03 04:15 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Clean   05/28/03 06:25 PM
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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/28/03 07:38 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/28/03 09:32 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution infidelGOD   05/28/03 11:51 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Anonymous   05/29/03 02:04 AM
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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/29/03 11:35 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/29/03 11:44 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Dogomush   05/29/03 11:49 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution SizzlinJ   05/30/03 06:31 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution sunyata   05/29/03 12:11 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/29/03 02:01 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Clean   05/27/03 05:47 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Murex   05/27/03 12:51 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Sclorch   05/27/03 12:53 AM
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. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Sclorch   05/27/03 12:36 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution johnnyfive   05/27/03 01:42 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 05:16 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution beam   05/27/03 06:27 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/27/03 01:28 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution Anonymous   05/27/03 08:22 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution CosmicJoke   05/30/03 09:18 AM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution atomikfunksoldier   05/30/03 01:27 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution toned3f   05/30/03 03:42 PM
. * * Re: HipHop and social r/evolution SizzlinJ   06/01/03 03:42 PM
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