Hip hop is not just about the music, hip hop is an art form that is a style of life. Some of the biggest hip hop artist focus on their music but that’s not it they also make films about their life on the streets and the reason they rap like they do. Even some of the biggest hip hop artist such as Tupac, B.I.G, and Eminem have movies of how they became what they became and more recently the group N.W.A released their big hit named Straight Out of Compton these are just a few examples of the biggest hip hop artist with movies. You cannot be a hip hop artist without street cred because when it all comes down to it that’s where hip hop all started. …show more content…
Perhaps one of the most influential hip hop artist ever is Tupac. Tupac wrote poems with his most famous being “The Rose that Grew from the Concrete.” Which is about how it does not matter who you are you can do what you want if you put your head to it. When you first hear most hip hop artist at first you may think they are a slob that does not deserve their fame and money, but as for one artist named Marshall Mathers he has grown a reputation of just a bad human but if you were to ask him he said he did whatever it would take to provide for his family and rap was his only option. So before you judge a hip hop artist from one song look up for his more emotional songs or his story because most hip hop artist grew up in some of the worst conditions you can think