Point counter Point (A Hip-Hop debate)

The question: Are YOU Hip-Hop

Adisa Banjoko is known as the Bishop of Hip-Hop. Presents his argument.

Here is KRS-One's response.

This is a very interesting topic.

Here's my two cents:

Hip-Hop is a culture and a way of life to many people around the world. Personally I don't feel the world is ready for KRS-One's philosophy. It is idealistic for him to feel that a person can give up their ethnicity for Hip-Hop and create a whole new persona.

"To suggest that we cannot re-create our very ethnicity today for our own human advancement and that of our children is to actually re-enslave ourselves and our children daily to interest foreign to our own. Such a suggestion is actually the cause of political stagnation for any group."

There is too much baggage that comes with one's ethnicity to just give it up and reinvent yourself all in the name of Hip-Hop. I do agree that we must advance humanity but giving up your ethnicity is not feasible or practical.

"By seeing Hiphop beyond entertainment and Rap music product we create a political, intellectual and spiritual blank tablet to which we can write our own futures upon."

I agree Hip-Hop has that kind of potential. But for this idea to come to fruition there would have to be a revolution the likes this world has never seen. The world is not ready for a revolution of this magnitude. But it needs to get ready in my humble opinion.