WHAT IS HIP HOP and WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?
                           -  KRS - ONE Hip Hop Icon, Author, Activist and Hip Hop Culture Scholar 

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''In its purest form Hip Hop was created to be a culture of resistance that takes pride in its ability to have fun while simultaneously empowering, educating, informing & uplifting the youth, the community and ALL who embraced it. Therefore true Hip Hop culture is not and never was

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DEGRADING, VIOLENT, EVIL, SEXIST, RACIST, or HOMOPHOBIC.  Hip Hop Culture is the originators of the DO YOU mindset as long as DOING YOU does NO HARM to others. 

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HIP HOP is a community of LEADERS not FOLLOWERS that embrace change, positive living  growth, experimentation, and always challenges the status quo. Hip Hop culture celebrates life, creativity, unity, and uniqueness; all with one goal in mind and that is to make positive changes in one's life, community and the society for which we live - that is what Hip Hop is as defined by its CREATORS and the COMMUNITY that shaped the music & the culture, and THAT is not subjected to be REDEFINED or DEBATED 

 

- Tandy Weems - CEO of  The Consortium of Hip Hop and the creator of the WHHA 

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