“Hip-hop is an environment created to protect the masses from obscene impositions of cultural dominance” while Black Lives Matter is a movement created to fight against these “obscene impositions” and the injustices, violence, and oppressions they cause. Black Lives Matter as a vocalized or hashtagged expression is not as taboo nor controversial as it once was before hip hop culture and its beloved artists combined this related movement into the larger movement of hip hop culture. It is the years of efforts by hip hop culture that has broadened Black Lives Matter within other communities, such as when NFL player Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers sat during the national anthem to protest police brutality, or when actor Jesse Williams spoke against this same violence during the 2016 BET Awards. With the collaboration and alliance of Black Lives Matter and hip hop culture as a “developing sociopolitical consciousness to…. bring down the walls of an ongoing American hypocrisy,” it is argued their combined influence will be “as powerful as the civil rights movement,” and thus, ensure that black lives, as argued for decades by hip hop culture, do in fact matter (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education,
“Hip-hop is an environment created to protect the masses from obscene impositions of cultural dominance” while Black Lives Matter is a movement created to fight against these “obscene impositions” and the injustices, violence, and oppressions they cause. Black Lives Matter as a vocalized or hashtagged expression is not as taboo nor controversial as it once was before hip hop culture and its beloved artists combined this related movement into the larger movement of hip hop culture. It is the years of efforts by hip hop culture that has broadened Black Lives Matter within other communities, such as when NFL player Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers sat during the national anthem to protest police brutality, or when actor Jesse Williams spoke against this same violence during the 2016 BET Awards. With the collaboration and alliance of Black Lives Matter and hip hop culture as a “developing sociopolitical consciousness to…. bring down the walls of an ongoing American hypocrisy,” it is argued their combined influence will be “as powerful as the civil rights movement,” and thus, ensure that black lives, as argued for decades by hip hop culture, do in fact matter (The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education,