![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now with the advent of social media, Hip Hop has been given a real platform to remain independent from the corporate structures that it challenges. However, as Hip Hop was adopted by the mainstream, it became embedded within the very structures that it claimed to rebel against. Hip Hop was born in this climate and became a primary outlet for the expression for black frustration with corporate greed and the establishment (Ross & Rose 71). At the same time, elite corporate developers were using government strategies for gentrification, intensifying a state of class and race unrest (Ross & Rose 74). In the 1970s, New York’s poorest areas were afflicted with a shrinking job market, diminishing affordable housing, and declining funding for social services (Ross & Rose 73-74). ‘Told you we ain’t dead yet, we been livin’ through your internet’: The Evolution of Hip Hop Childish Gambino by Daniel Patlan on Flickr He is interested in the utilization of music and other media as a vessel for social change. Jason Garske aka Jay the Echo is a Hip Hop artist and producer from the Bay Area, California.
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