FREESPEAK BY JOHNNY SPANONE

On Aug 11th, 2021 the Hip-hop genre of music turned 48 years since it was conceived at the DJ Kool Herc hosted back to school party in the Bronx. This coincided with the US Senate passing  Senate Resolution 331, which legally designated the date as a National Holiday by Unanimous Consent. The Senate also designated August as the 'Hip-hop Recognition Month and November as the 'Hip-hop History Month, according to the Senate Periodical Press Gallery.   Below is a copied post from the Reddit Social Media Platform, which was recently posted by the NY-16 Congressman Jamaal Bowman, acknowledging the Newly Recognised Hip-hop Holiday.   Subreddit Icon r/hiphopheads •Posted byu/congressmanbowman 2 days ago Wholesome I’m Congressman Jamaal Bowman, representative from NY-16, Hip Hop head, and original co-sponsor of the Hip Hop Resolution. AMA I'm a first-term congressman, disciple of the 36 chambers, and I’ve just introduced House Resolution 579 to designate today, August 11, 2021, a

In 2005 Lawrence Chris Parker, aka KRS 1, was quoted on the blog, Basis,  D.L. Chandler's frequent thoughts on the world of hip hop and beyond , stating that he wasn't shocked by the media's obsession with the violence in Hip-hop because it often gave them good stories to report on, and continued by referring to hip hop as a microwave culture that expected information hastily, plus didn't care to substantiate the information before accepting it as the truth. With this, we can clearly identify how the legendary Bronx rapper felt about the way the media portrayed hip-hop to its viewers as a violent culture just to gain a larger viewership leading to profit, at the expense of the culture's perceived moral stance from the public point of view as a whole. Thus, it wouldn't be far-fetched to assume that during the mid-'90s, the media's propagated East-West conflict that was ongoing between rappers wouldn't have impressed KRS 1, who was by the time actively