Everybody’s a huge fan of hiphop and i can’t blame anyone. Hiphop has the energy and the beat. It’s a big thing on the west, and i can say that Phils, having such the colonial mentality, adopted the whole genre in the 2000′s. The early rap songs at the time were democratic and patriotic and are written in Tagalog. The Master Rapper that time was the late Francis Magalona.
So that’s still being original and creative, despite the foreign genre. But nowadays, around 2007, there was a spin. The lyrics became no less than sexual prowess and the once patriotic became thug-loving. Stage names like usual American rappers came (but ours is more cornball) and videos about it are now shooted on clubs, like the usual hiphop. Rappers before wore three stars and one sun but now wore loose shirts and pants pulled halfway down. Lately I thought westerners were the ones rapping in the local music channel i watched minutes ago. But when they mentioned “like here in P.I.” okay, i’m wrong. But how shocking. We are Asians with a different culture and we are raised to have a discreet attitude that restricts us from writing and broadcasting songs that have lyrics talking about blowjobs and sex in the floor. Is that really for flavor only? Please, your songs are too fast for rnb and too slow to be compared to T.I. and Eminen. I prefer the teen bands arising nowadays (not to mention their videos) compared to the hiphop icon wannabes. At least their music is “friendly”.
HipHop in the Philippines
