Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
Hip hop was originally meant to be a genre that unites people in the community. Rap was used to convey positive messages to the public by where of organized rhymes and well articulated flow full of bars (points) for the intended audience. That kind of game is only evident among pioneers of rap in Uganda.
Everything changed when most aspiring young rappers got access to YMCB kind of rap style. It stopped being about sensitizing and started being about money and survival. This spirit young folks have adopted has put the genre on a ledge of losing its original purpose which is so bad for hard core Hip Hop fans.
It even gets worse when it comes to competition and the saying ‘if you don’t make money, you don’t make no sense ‘, drives the last nail into the coffin of good positive Hip hop culture.
Cheers to the pioneers rap in Uganda and those still conveying the positive message, not forgetting the new school kids on the block big ups too for keeping us upgraded every time.
