Many who grew up on hip-hop will make the distinction between the music of yesterday and contemporary rap and point to the glaring differences in content, sound and purpose. The issue with many of these assessments is that it is often done in the spirit of lament without a careful look at the scene in its entirety.

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In our westernized society, the experience of three full decades of life means that one is expected to have most of it together. The dark side of this measurement by society based on this timetable, is that is unforgiving to those who haven’t met its standards by then.

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