Beware of taking the historical context out of hip hop
What we've got to be very careful as hip hop artists is that we don’t allow rap to held as a scapegoat by society. What I mean by that is, yeah there is some very negative hip hop music, yes, there is some very nostolganistic hip hop music, yes, there is some very materialistic hip hop music but all of that reflects the violence and materialism in our culture from start, it’s not specific to rap.
