Hate hip hop? Think again..

Today I’m going to bring to you two albums which are brilliant examples of great albums which people who dislike hip hop will love. Time and again I’ve known people to object to hip hop because after all it’s just about “blunts, bitches and big guns”. This generally deters people from getting into hip hop because they perceive it as being a juvenile, macho segment of music.

But it isn’t.

Hip hop differs from mainstream rap music because it covers more varied themes and involves using your brain. Hence the notion of a hip hop head. Yes a lot of good hip hop involves the afore mentioned themes but the genre covers all the areas that most music covers e.g. injustice, love, sex, insecurities, loss, and all the rest. The only trouble people have is finding this variation.

Luckily enough for you I’ve got two great examples here.

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