Many rappers primarily focus is now on creating chorus’s and hooks for ringtones to go gold, platinum and even multi-platinum. Why make great a song when you only need thirty seconds to sell out?

BROTHERS AND SISTERS - I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS RAP IS COMING TO...

"BOBBY'S HAPPY HOUSE RECORDS"

Rap began as a voice for the unheard. In the beginning of hip-hop everyone strived to be different but now everyone is doing what sells. 

GRANDMIXER D.ST IS WORKING 

NEGRIL 7th AVENUE HARLEM 12th STREET FLYER 1982

It is now quantity over quality and no one will take responsibility.  Look at the state of our community because our young people are now aspiring to become thugs and video “models”. 

DOUBLE TROUBLE IN THE "DANCETERIA"

HARLEM 146th STREET PARTY FLYER IN 1983

We have not made positive strides as we have done in previous years. Please kids, take care of that art form and learn to speak before you talk. I know very well that today and in the future, strong, intelligent characters will defense a sense through knowledge. Hip hop is very much alive.

YOUNG GRANDMASTER FLASH ROCKING AT BROADWAY INTERNATIONAL