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Your very own....
Certainly the style was born in NY, but as it evolves its good to see people branch it out. Not copy or perpertrate (sp?) it....It's comical when you run into folks who try their best to be "Hip" , or "Down", but they just don't have the knack 4 it. When you add your own ingredients or better yet create your very own, well that's what the initial concept of the Hip Hop world was about....It's like a group trying to emulate or sound like another....I.E. a group trying to be Eyabay, or sound like them....It's not going to happen because Eyabay is Eyabay....Hope that was a good example....So that holds true for Hip Hop....(And no i'm not implying anything....just making a point). Someone growing up in Montana, or North Dakota, or so on is certainly going to have different stories then those growing up in Bed Stuy Brooklyn NY or Fort Apache in the Bronx! My impression is TV and Movies influence the perception and emulation that goes on out there....Emulation is the greatest form of flattery, but originality will take you much further. Of course if the style comes from a particular area your take on it or continuation of it will have the initial influence, that's fine, but put your own spin on it....Recently in British Columbia Canada I heard a young Hip Hop group and quite honestly they were pretty dam good. So it's interesting to see just how much influence Hip Hop has had on people. Now the other take is people associate problems and trouble with Hip Hop. They sense it's bad for Skins....Sort of stick to your own thing, don't take that on, don't act that way...Well I've seen the Good, Bad, and the Ugly....I know there are positive elements there as well as negative ones....It's up to the individual who goes to the drawing board and sketches out their expression so to speak. I hope this was a little helpful or insightful....Hip Hop sure has com a long way from Queensbridge Queens NY, or The Boogie Down Bronx. Lets just hope positive elements of the genre continue to surface and it gives some Indian kids out there a way to express themselves in a good way.....
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