These are the people that made hip hop. Seems to me it’s about having a good time, but hip hop doesn’t need to be anything.

With that being said this s*** has aged like absolute crap 😂

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Humans beings will always compete

Hip hop is about kicking it with the boys, dressing up in your most flamboyant outfit, and spittin some lyrical spill to Tom Tom Club

Op u right but at the time they were crazy competitive lmao

That was late 80’s family

This time is strictly political messages and party music

i don't think it's a "competition" per se but there's nothing wrong with certain rappers wanting a competitive edge. every artist is competing for more fans, and in a space like hip-hop we
always want to kill the next artist to ensure our own success.

hip hop doesn’t need to be anything

DJs in the early days were competitive af always trying to have the best records and making sure other djs wouldnt get their hands on the best breaks

They weren’t dissing each others like that tho for sure

Sugarhill Gang were so competitive they stole a dude's rhymes for Rapper's Delight lol

Them nursery rhymes

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Big Bank Hank was lip syncing when he got discovered and went right in the studio and put it on the record

Wowww. So Hip hop was founded on plagiarism? like not even the samples, the lyrics too

hip hop can be anything you want it to be

If those older rappers were more developed in their style they woulda been dissing tf outta each other them niggas aint like each other

DJs and MCs have been battling since the very beginning of hip hop. It is very much a competition.

You're kinda curving it tho. Yeah you see them having fun there but people like Grandmaster Flash were def competing in the city before they blew up

All the DJ battles and MC competitions.. like Flash was one of the founders of that tradition.....hip hops origin was still heavily competitive before the genre took off into the music industry and acts had to be the best to make it out

Hip hop is about kicking the boys, dressing up and spittin some spill to Tom

You puttin a negative connotation on competition. Even back in the 80s niggas wanted to be the biggest and hottest out. Most Clout etc.

Let’s not forget back then there weren’t stadiums full of people lined up to see an artist, so money wasn’t yet a huge factor

They still all wanted to be known as the best bruh

but that didn't come at the cost of making fun music though