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Hip-hop grew in an area of Bronx, New York in the 70's.That was the beginning before me because I was born on November 28,1984. To me, it's my part of the life I want. Hip-hop gives me a life to live and learn for. The Elements are: MC-ing, DJ-ing, grafitti, break dancing, and beat-boxing. My favorite idols are from Run-DMC to Nas and Jay-Z. What made me to look back at the early days before blinging, etc., it was the good times like grabbing the microphone and saying things like this: "Just throw your hands in the air and wave it like you just don't care. If you wanna get down for B-Eazy, somebody say, 'Oh Yeah'"! Right now, we have today's people that sounds pathetic and wackness. It's like nothing is the same as was back in the day. (Hip-Hop music in the 2000s isn't real...example: Lil' Wayne, 50 Cent, Kanye, etc. That's where it all happens to come crashing down.)
Now making myself looking back, it's time to teach young people to know what's right, wrong, real, fake, good, bad, happy, sad, best, greatest or worst in the hip-hop culture. One phrase I'll have to say: 'Just be yourself and stay true to yourself.' Don't be like any others who can't stay true or stay real. It's time to go back...back to the time I grew up on hip-hop as a country boy.
I can remember the days of hip-hop going from nothing to something, including break-dancing, fresh fest, hip-hop artists switching from rapping to acting, the glory days of 2Pac and Notorious B.I.G., and the triumphant tragedies that shocked us down. What I think about today's rappers is to stop rapping for now. Hip-Hop saved me without commercialism. That's what keeping it real is all about.
