I would like to take this opportunity to welcome any new readers to the blog! My name is Daniel Rojas and I am currently a freshman student at California State University at Northridge. I have had a personal passion for hip-hop music for as long as I can remember.
One of the most memorable, yet embarrassing, moments of my childhood was dancing to the "The Real Slim Shady" music video when it appeared nearly every single day after school on VH1. I was completely mesmerized by the song for the longest time, and the dynamic sound that it produced was like nothing I had ever heard before. The music video inspired me to find other sources of music that reached the same caliber of quality.
As I got older, my music interests expanded and I took a deeper look behind the mask of hip-hop. After all, the music itself was only a small fraction of what the entire genre truly represented. There is an entire community behind the genre and it is accompanied by a certain atmosphere that is unmatched by other music styles. To say that hip-hop is made up only of the music doesn't do the genre justice whatsoever. I plan to further discuss the deeper meaning and philosophy behind hip-hop later in this blog.
I will do my best to address the topic at hand honestly and critically. I have listened to the entire spectrum of hip-hop music from the early nineties to the current music playing in our radios this day. The development of the music style has interested me for a long time, and I am grateful that I finally have this opportunity to elaborate on the subject.
-Daniel Rojas
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