HIP HOP TUESDAYS: OLD SCHOOL VERSES NEW SCHOOL HIP HOP PLAYLIST

In rap and hip hop, there is always this divide on what is “Real”. Other genres, like rock for example people will just call a band bad or garbage and call it a day. Hip hop however, there is a whole different spectrum of being “real hip hop” and what just isn’t Is it having passion for the genre? If so, then one could say Drake is real hip hop (Although that is blasphemy to most).

If you said real hip hop is using the music to spread positivity to the black community like the days of Grandmaster Flash, then DMX isn’t “real” with just about all of his discography (I like his music don’t get me wrong). Stuff like that leads to the question what is real hip hop and for all of you who use the term, how do you all define it if you were asked to? So on today's hip hop Tuesdays segment, we will contrast both sides of hip hop in Kenya, which will break down into two pieces; old school and new school.

Below is a playlist from both ages. On what's 'real' and what's not, you dear reader will deicide. Enjoy!

• OLD SCHOOL
• E- sir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFwHs-s1xk
• Bamboo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpS4zxYDGgE
• Bamzigi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhcCtOvWU8
• Nazizi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEmxz0P8C5c
• Abbas Kubaff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6YkGfqO0c&list=PL0CB9DA4672FB5167
• NEW SCHOOL
• Poppa Don https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oiJMsSKGlA 
• Rabbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2gfuIEQjnw
• Khaligraph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaWhWmkXrns
• Octopizzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYiTbfsL6M
• Wangechi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSvr7viWy4Q

BY R.D MUIA