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Recently, I was put into the middle of a huge, heated argument over hip-hop and it's meaning in life today. Simply stated, I told my friends that hip-hop was dead. Met with confused looks, I proceeded to explain. This is an excerpt of what I examined out loud during the late hours of discussion. Hip-hop is a homegrown culture, but not much unlike Christianity or other religions. It was derrived from jazz, rock and roll, with the seeds of funk. All of those afore mentioned are products of music before them, but we could keep going on that for years. It was born on the back alleys of inner cities around the USA in the early 70s. It was formed