When you look at the birth of Hip Hop 50 years ago it was to create social cohesion in a ghetto with little to no social pillars. When KRS writes the gospel of Hip Hop in 2017 he describes the collapse of social structures left with nothing but corruption today. Most of America’s social pillars have collapsed and the whole country is almost a ghetto now 50 years later. Yet Hip Hop with a social conscience lives.

It is like the housing market in Sydney, there has been so much high end housing pumped out. Also a lot of the houses I see look good but they are cheap to build, who then would want to use the same materials with less markup per dwelling to be affordable? That is right nobody! Nobody is paid to care but what you are left with is a top heavy structure with no foundation. Basically corporate interests can move in and they can get floor space.

There are still the Mum and Dad businesses out there but they have to align themselves to something bigger just to survive. Something bigger means something corporate, the new pillars. The funny thing is you then have to get addicted to every drug, prescription or otherwise and sell sensationalist books to make a living. You gotta get a story and weather the nightmare to get that cream. You gotta sell yourself, don’t be lame and try to be nice. 

Or you can just get a job and hang out at the cat rescue, read some books, listen to music you like and be as lame as possible. I am sure there are more choices than that, maybe study law, be an accountant, play sports, take up archery and see if you can still pay the rent every week. These are all of the things I didn’t do and I probably couldn’t have done all of them anyway. I suppose the ultimate lesson is self development and self determination. That’s hard.