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As a singular behemoth, hip-hop defines modern culture in a way that dwarfs the rest of the music on, and off, the radio.
You can't watch television, cruise Facebook or read magazines without running into hip-hop — the music, the culture, the language, the bravado, the spirit. Although hip-hop is barely 30 years old, its prominence is envied, a fact easily seen in all the crossover aping of its production techniques, its style, its fashion.
But like pop, rock and country, hip-hop has matured into a splintered entity — a massively blooming genre that has so many personalities, types, crossovers and offshoots that it's impossible to nail down its main crux of influence.
So what is hip-hop today?
Is it, at its core, just a big business, red carpets and expensive suits, as it is with rapper Jay-Z? Or is the genre still defined via thug superstars such as Lil Wayne and other notoriously criminal present-day players who have replaced the gangsta rap of the late '80s and the crunk bad boys of the early 2000s?
On the flip side, hip-hop might be most visible when disguised as Top 40, as it is with the music of KeSha, the singer and rapper behind the recent smash single "Tik Tok."
Somehow, modern hip-hop manages to be all of those things.
In light of Jay-Z's current concert series, Lil Wayne's recent jail sentence and KeSha's ownership of the sales and radio charts, this snapshot of today's largest hip-hop
You can't watch television, cruise Facebook or read magazines without running into hip-hop — the music, the culture, the language, the bravado, the spirit. Although hip-hop is barely 30 years old, its prominence is envied, a fact easily seen in all the crossover aping of its production techniques, its style, its fashion.
But like pop, rock and country, hip-hop has matured into a splintered entity — a massively blooming genre that has so many personalities, types, crossovers and offshoots that it's impossible to nail down its main crux of influence.
So what is hip-hop today?
Is it, at its core, just a big business, red carpets and expensive suits, as it is with rapper Jay-Z? Or is the genre still defined via thug superstars such as Lil Wayne and other notoriously criminal present-day players who have replaced the gangsta rap of the late '80s and the crunk bad boys of the early 2000s?
On the flip side, hip-hop might be most visible when disguised as Top 40, as it is with the music of KeSha, the singer and rapper behind the recent smash single "Tik Tok."
Somehow, modern hip-hop manages to be all of those things.
In light of Jay-Z's current concert series, Lil Wayne's recent jail sentence and KeSha's ownership of the sales and radio charts, this snapshot of today's largest hip-hop
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