Samantha's Introduction

Hello and welcome to our hip hop blog! My name is Samantha Hernandez and a lot like my partners on this blog, I can honestly say I have had a deep love for hip hop since I first heard it.

I can not pin point an exact date or even a year when I first started listening to hip hop, it has been a part of my life for a long as I can remember, and maybe even before. I would walk around my house as a child constantly doing what I saw in music videos and reciting raps. My favorite thing to do however was walk around free styling, yes, my secret passion is rapping. I would walk around asking for people to give me a topic and 3 minutes to have a quick verse ready. To this day I still do this constantly. But, to say that the music is the only factor of hip hop would not do it justice. I remember the first time I saw someone break dance, it was in the movie You Got Served. I was memorized and amazed that such beauty could come
from moving your body. From that day on I decided to devote my time to learning how to move like them, and I did. See, Hip Hop is a whole culture which is at least 30 years old now, a whole community of people who share a common interest. This can be true in any of the four elements of hip hop;
 Master of ceremonies or Mic controller (MC), Break Dancers (B-boy/B-girl) Graffiti Artist, or Disc Jockey (DJ).

But those were the good ol' days, the days when Hip Hop was about unity going into a warehouse and just making the crowd jump and feel inspired like they were a part of something beautiful. People often today say that ""Hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"" -Nas. This may or may not be true, but our blogs sole purpose is to find out why? Why is it that so many young males and females are turning to negative influences that today's
hip hop makes seem desirable? Our main goal is to critically analyze the influence Hip Hop has on its listeners.