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I have been noticing a disturbing trend with rappers making the move from the stage to the big screen. Since there are people who are deaf to hearing what is true school Hip Hop music, it can also be said about those same people being blind to what is truly happening with rappers going Hollywood.
A true Graff Writer is an artist masked by the alter ego of a character-empowered pseudonym. They live and run for the thrill seeking life of blazing their identity to the world with the same prime-time energy as a sign in Times Square. They deliver their craft as harbingers, poets, messengers, apostles, activists, visionaries, prophets, shock jocks, romantics, and editorialists. No matter what they create, where they bomb, or how they burn their hieroglyphics, Graff Writers ultimately prize the game in the name of fame.
I have been reading an interesting story published by Sarah Yang of the University of California-Berkeley, regarding research on references to illegal drug use in rap music from 1979 to 1997. From what I read it was not necessarily an anti-rap music campaign according to its data. It was a fact finding analysis based on the lyrical content of the most popular rap songs (and other music genres) and illegal drug references.
