Hip hop according to James McBride's article “Hip Hop Planet” is a singular and different form of music that brings with it a message that only those who pay a lot of attention pay attention to it understand it. Many who dislike this form of music would claim that it is “without melody, feeling, instruments, lyrics or harmony and doesn't even seem to be music” (McBride, p. 1). Although hip hop has proven why it deserves to be called music. By delving into its values and origins, we understand why it is so popular among young people and why it has continued to evolve over the years instead of dying. Many of the values of hip hop that make it unique and different from other forms of music would be that it makes "visible the internal culture of America's greatest social problem, its legacy of slavery, brought the dream deferred to a global scale" (McBride , page 8). Hip hop also “is a music that defies definition, but defines our collective societies in immeasurable ways” (McBride, p. 2). THE
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