Hip Hop Planet

   
I completely agree with James McBride's statement that hip hop is a warning. To first understand the warning that hip hop is portraying, you have to understand the conditions and the environment that created hip hop as a whole. That is why Mr. McBride begins his passage by breaking down the history of hip hop. Hip hop began in West Africa and spread to America through the Middle Passage. This music was created because of the hardships that people were going through. So in order to cope with slavery, poverty, degradation, oppression, and racism, black people expressed their emotions through their music.

The music was created with anger, hate and sorrow in their hearts. That is what Mr. McBride meant when he said hip hop is the music of outrage.
From poverty, to slavery, to racism. It doesn't matter what the struggle was, hip hop was always the way to get their message or "warning" across. Whether it be a political rap, a spoken word about oppression or a gangster rap. The primary emotion fueling rap is anger and outrage. Like Henry said in paragraph 26 "Everyone likes to talk the talk but not everyone can walk the walk".

Throughout the years, the hardships and struggles of the black race have varied and changed but music was always the coping mechanism. For the Nigerians there was Afrobeat. For slaves there were negro spirituals. For the newly freed black people of the 2000's there was jazz. Hip hop was just the next generation of black music.