Our generation has personally witnessed and experienced the birth, maturation, manipulation and degradation of Hip-Hop as a culture born out of injustice and adopted as the quintessential voice to those for whom justice and equality has turned a blind eye.
Like government, religion and all other institutions, Hip-Hop is also a tool, and like all tools it can be used either to build or to destroy depending on who's hand wields it.
Unfortunately, as we have clearly witnessed in both government and religion, Humanity has once again handed over yet another tool – the mighty hammer that is Hip-Hop — to those who wish to strike us down and remodel the culture we have slowly built from the ground up into an abomination that serves their material self-interests.
Today, we see in Hip-Hop the results of a culture hijacked by a corporate machine engaged in a war against all of Humanity, bent on dividing us from other cultures, fueling our mistrust and hatred towards one another, and ultimately controlling us through fear.
Hip-Hop as a tool is now a weapon of mass destruction aimed directly at the Hip-Hop culture, and all other cultures interwoven with Hip-Hop shall be considered collateral damage.
It is simply human nature for us to seek to control that which we fear, and there is no question why that from its inception Hip-Hop has been seen as a pariah in the eyes of the powers that be that continue to control the populace that gives credence to their power.
Rock n' Roll is an empty shell of what it was and what it could have been thanks to the corporate machine, and like Hip-Hop, Rock n' Roll was a music and culture born out of injustice and adopted as the voice for the voiceless. This is no coincidence, for these cultures have one thing in common:
They were a threat to the consensus norm governed by separation and fear.
Like Rock n' Roll in its heyday, Hip-Hop is seen by the powers that be as a unifying force capable of dismantling the conformity of the consensus norm and ushering in a new age of Unity that they no longer have control of. Within a span of two decades, Hip-Hop was capable of reaching out not only to the urban youth of the Bronx and Brooklyn, but to the urban youth suffering injustice throughout the entire East Coast.
It reached out to the youth suffering injustice in the inner-cities of Los Angeles, Oakland and the entire West Coast. It reached out to the youth suffering injustice in the Dirty South. It reached out to the youth suffering injustice in Chicago, Detroit and the entire Mid-West. Hip-Hop reached out to all those who have suffered and witnessed injustice and inequality from every corner, every city and every suburb of the United States. But it didn't stop there. Hip-Hop extended its reach over to the youth suffering injustice in the isles of the Caribbean.
It reached over to the youth in South America. It reached over the Atlantic Ocean, inspiring the youth suffering injustice in South London, the UK and all of Europe. It reached out to the youth suffering gross injustice in the African motherland. It reached out to the youth in Eastern Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and the islands of the South Pacific.
Within a span of two decades, Hip-Hop managed what many within the consensus norm deemed impossible:
It became a worldwide culture.
It became the voice for the impoverished, marginalized and disaffected youth living in countries throughout the world, suffering injustice at the hands of the globalist elite. Hip-Hop became a unifying force capable of waking up Humanity from its arrested state of awareness and spiritual development. Hip-Hop soon epitomized what the power elite and the corporate machine feared most: losing control over us, the very people that — through our ignorance, self-doubt and fear — continue to keep them in positions of power, persistent in our delusional belief that they are serving our best interests. But we are nothing to them but slaves born and bred to unwittingly build their globalist edifice, making us use our very tools to destroy the cultures we built, and remodel them into their own materialist abomination fueled by separation and fear.
The powers that be could not destroy Hip-Hop, so it instead decided to take it over, for it is simply human nature for us to seek to control that which we fear.
The Hip-Hop music we listen to and the "culture" it now represents is the result of the corporate takeover of Hip-Hop. The denunciation of the glorification of violence, misogyny and materialism in Hip-Hop music by the powers that be merely hides the fact that it is their own corporate machine that continues to proliferate and perpetuate this glorification into our Hip-Hop culture and subsequently into other cultures. Hip-Hop is now another corporate vehicle used to peddle its goods to the impoverished and shallow youth, conditioned to believe that materialism equals happiness.
Conditioned to believe that Hip-Hop is synonymous with aspirations of money, fame, expensive cars, fancy clothes, name-brand sneakers, pimpin' hoes and the violence that comes with keepin' it real.
The corporate machine has effectively taken advantage of the inequality, injustice and insecurity felt among those of the Hip-Hop culture in order to properly mold the Hip-Hop generation into obedient consumers. The effect of this is a Hip-Hop generation systematically dumbed down in order to keep it from realizing its true potential, as well as the truth that our supposed love for Hip-Hop is in reality being used as a tool to serve the agenda of a materialist corporate elite.
The cause of this is fear among the powers that be of the Hip-Hop culture realizing it's ultimate purpose and destiny as a tool to unify all people and all cultures.
We of the Hip-Hop culture have a choice, and the choice is this:
Shall we continue to allow Hip-Hop to be used as a corporate tool to destroy ourselves and our culture, or shall we take it back in order to use Hip-Hop as a tool to unite Hip-Hop heads, all people, all races and all cultures?
Will Hip-Hop be yet another flash-in-the-pan movement that could have been, or will it be the movement that speaks for the Buddha's, the Christ's, the Ghandi's, the Lennon's and the King's in all of us who seek peace, justice and equality for all of Humankind, free from fear and the manipulation of truth?
We of the Hip-Hop culture have the utmost responsibility to nurture what we built as MC's, DJ's, Beatboxers, Breakdancers, Graffiti Artists, and all Hip-Hop fans worldwide.
Nobody can usher in a dawning of a new age for the Hip-Hop culture but us. I truly believe that this is the ultimate purpose and destiny of Hip-Hop.
We are more than a music.
We are more than a culture.
We are a movement destined for great things if we only believe in ourselves and our potential.
In the spirit of those who have fallen before us. In the spirit of those who sacrificed their lives, standing up against injustice, inequality and the powers that seek to continue to conquer us through fear and separation.
I am calling for a Revolution, but not a Revolution of might. Not a Revolution to instill fear in the hearts and minds of those who have hijacked the Hip-Hop culture. Doing so will make us no better than them.
Rather, what I am calling for is a Revolution from within.
A Revolution of the Self.
A Revolution by which we change our perspective of Hip-Hop, the world, our significant purpose in this world, and those who seek to use Hip-Hop for their own selfish gain.
A Revolution by which we use our minds, hearts and wits rather than our fists to undermine the corporate machine's stranglehold of our culture from the inside-out.
The corporate machine has met us half way by bringing us into their fold, and now it is our turn return the favor. I am calling for all major record label Hip-Hop artists assimilated into the corporate power structure to utilize its resources to raise awareness among the Hip-Hop youth.
I am calling for the Hip-Hop Underground to build solidarity under the banner of Peace and Nonviolence.
I am calling for Hip-Hop heads worldwide to stand for Unity and Justice, and to be a beacon of Hope and Love in the eyes of those who still see us as a beacon of Hatred and Fear.
I am calling for the Hip-Hop generation to stop fighting each other, for that is what the powers that be want us to do so that we don't realize the rug being pulled from under us.
I am calling for the Hip-Hop generation to wake up from its self-perpetuated mass delusion of materialism, misogyny and violence as part of what it means to be Hip-Hop.
While the corporate machine has used our weaknesses to their advantage, we bear the ultimate responsibility for our actions in the name of Hip-Hop, and only we can change our image in the eyes of the world and among ourselves.
Only we can rise above and beyond anyone's expectations of us as individual heads and as a global movement of Peace, Love and Justice. Only we are capable of seeing in Hip-Hop the potential to usher in a new age of Oneness, free from Fear and the Delusion of Separation.
The corporate elite that fears the Hip-Hop movement is not our enemy.
They only seek to control that which they fear.
A Revolution of vengeance and might in opposition to those whom we believe oppress us similarly seeks to exert control over that which we fear. Thus, fighting fear with fear, no matter how benevolent one's intentions are, only validates and constitutes more fear. This leads to even greater injustice and will never lead to true justice, peace and equality.
Rather than enemies, the corporate elite and all those whom we believe threaten Hip-Hop and all cultures worldwide are simply reflections of our own fears, just as we are a reflection of theirs. We cannot change a reflection of our Selves by forcing the reflection to change. In order to change our reflection, we must change.
We must be the change.
This is what I mean by a Revolution of the Self.
The Revolution starts from within, and begins by realizing that we must disbelieve in our limitations. It begins by being the change you wish others to be, especially those whom you fear. It is believing in the power of Love as the only way to bring an end to injustice.
The Revolution that I am calling for within the Hip-Hop movement is not one of violence or indignation, but rather through the exemplification of Love. It is through exemplifying Awareness.
Exemplifying Respect.
Exemplifying Humility.
Exemplifying Solidarity.
Exemplifying Understanding.
Exemplifying Compassion.
Exemplifying Oneness.
Only by changing our Selves can the Hip-Hop cultural movement begin to un-realize Fear and Separation as an inescapable reality in our lives and realize true Peace and Happiness.
This can be the ultimate purpose and destiny of Hip-Hop, but only if you make it so.
To be a self-realized Hip-Hop head is the ultimate reality one can experience within the Hip-Hop cultural movement. But awareness is only one half of the equation. The other half is applying your awareness. To do something about it. And so, after all that you have read, the question I ask of you is this:
What are you gonna do about it?
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Brian Sanchez hopes to reinstate the All Is One Society website and organization, and invites spiritually like-minded individuals interested in being a part of this venture to E-mail him. For more information, please visit www.ALLisONE.org.
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