Conscious hip hop

Yes please.


Conscious hip hop or socially conscious hip-hop is a sub-genre of hip hop that focuses on social issues. Like several cases within many genres of music,[examples needed] the umbrella term was originally coined by audiences and music critics rather than the actual artists themselves. It is not necessarily overtly political, but it discusses social issues and conflicts. Themes of conscious hip hop include religion, aversion to crime & violence, culture, the economy, or simple depictions the struggles of ordinary people. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" was an early and hugely influential political and conscious hip hop track, decrying the poverty, violence, and dead-end lives of the black youth of the time.

The audience for conscious rap is largely underground.[3] Most conscious hip hop artists (MC Chill, Jimmy Spice Curry, and numerous others) have not attained the same level of commercial success as mainstream hip-hop,[4] though there are some notable exceptions to this such as KRS-One,[5] Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Hopsin, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West, Killer Mike, Atmosphere, Immortal Technique, Charmingly Ghetto, Shad, The Roots, Poor Righteous Teachers, Tupac Shakur, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, J.Cole, Big K.R.I.T. Nas, DCP, OutKast and Common.

There are hundreds of artists whose music could be described as "political": see the List of political hip hop artists page for a partial list.