what’s needed in Hip-Hop

(The following is a live post written during G.i.g.a.t.t.’s Spoken Word/Open Mic nite at the Terrace Cafe. 02/08) 

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This is jon from klas fm 89.7 .Just saying what’s popin  & to stay in touch saturdays or sundays for my radio show . To listen to what the corner needs not what it wants.

In my own opinion ganster rap has ran it’s course to the point of makeing ganster life popular so much so that kids grow-up wanting to sell drugs , women , or kill for a street that will never call them family.Thinking that they are representing Hip-Hop when in actuality Hip-Hop was started by breack-dancers, graffity artist , and DJ’s trying to keep the kids away from gangs ,drugs or any thing that would hinder thier future. 

Also Hip-Hop started in 1973 surviveing ten years before it needed a m.c or needed a big time production label to [exploit] our culture. 

- Jon Aguilar