rom the circus of popularity. This sparked the animosity towards these pop emcees from the Hip Hop nation that eventually would knock them out of favor in the early 90's.
The aftermath of the pop emcee craze was a suburban audience that held more buying power than the original urban audience. The now commercial big buisness industry began to cater to their buying needs.
The new suburban market had no need for socially aware and culturally conscious music, they wanted to hear violent "hood" tales about car chases and shootouts with cops. Music to heal their bruised ego's and help them perpetuate their wannabe bad identity crisis.
This marked the age when trends in Hip Hop music were no longer pioneered by urban society. Suburban white teens became 85% of the Hip Hop buying public, this made their listening needs unversal. As always, the true Hip Hop acts distance theirselves from the stench.
Around 1995 the popularity of what the media called "gangsta rap" diminished greatly. The same concepts had been used and abused over and over again to the point that even the suburban market was tiring of it. The shiny suit emcees crawled back out from under their rocks and again began their assault on the art of Hip Hop.
Armed with rollies, cases of champagne, and stolen beats they began to take over the airwaves by storm. The only difference from the first time they had shown up was that now most of Hip Hop culture was accepting them. Anyone that logically argued against them and brought to light their wackness was labled a "player hater". The masses, suburban and urban alike, fell upon the "jiggy" tip while Hip Hop purists stayed on the underground. The complete seperation occured as the two Hip Hop worlds became more and more distant. Animosity of all sorts began to build up once again.
Recently more interest has been shown to pure and more traditional Hip Hop expression. Underground acts have begun to get the respect that is ...