Atlanta, Georgia rapper Gorilla Zoe recently caught up with VladTV to breakdown how he believes Hip Hop influences, and in some ways controls, pop music and culture.
During the conversation, the 2007 XXL Freshman outlined the impact Hip Hop currently has on popular culture, most notably its influence when it comes to fashion and lingo.
“The truth is, urban Rap is pop music,” Gorilla Zoe says. “It’s a young culture but the culture is so explosive. It’s past pop. The culture of Hip Hop is pop. It controls almost [how] the whole world of a certain age dresses, period. It changes the way people talk in their dialect and their language, especially now with social media. If somebody come with a new word or a new phrase, it splashes from the ghetto, from the hood, from the streets and the next day somebody living in Beverly Hills is saying the same word. Back in the day it would take ten years for that word to spread or that dance or that movement. But now, you can actually see the impact of our culture and it’s pop. They’re like, ‘It’s not pop, it’s urban.’ Like, ‘Nah, Rap is pop. Hip Hop is pop.’ It’s popular, that’s what pop is. I don’t care where you at in the music business or in entertainment, Hip Hop is influencing it like 80 [to] 90 percent.”
Back in 2010, Gorilla Zoe famously released one mixtape per day for the entire month of February.
Gorilla Zoe’s interview with VladTV can be viewed below:
that’s how diluted the culture is. it’s also when you know it’s a wrap & time to move on because a culture is a way of life, not a popular trend to follow. who follows Buddhism as a trendy way to be popular with friends but not an actual way of life? Lames do. let these lames find some other way to fit into society like their own merits and instead of emulating someone else’s mantra and hard work.
if thats the case you need to let all your technology and american sports go bc white ppl worked ahrd to get to where thats at now. and dont wear no verchase, prada, nike, puma, jordans, hanes, none of that shit..all white man hard earned
we ALL use other culture/races shit in life.. get over it.
True he right! While hip-hop may be popular and have a world-wide range, it will never be pop. Every genre has at least a couple of artists that everyone knows but it doesn’t make it pop music. The day hip-hop becomes vapid, soul-less, and built just for teenagers, old wrinkly white people, and dumb fucks like gorilla zoe, I won’t be listening to it…
You know being popular and having world-wide range…is literally the definition of pop music?
Exactly… that’s why Hip-Hop is dead and has been dead for a long time now.
Just take a good look around this website and you will see nothing but goofy, so called rappers everywhere you look. Bunch of clowns. It’s embarrassing what hip-hop culture has become.
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