A few months ago, I penned a short piece on how to be moderately successful in this rap game, and promised to follow up with how to take such moderate success and mediocre talents and turn it into many many many stacks. Now I may be later than that skuzzy ho you ran up in without a rubber dumbass) but unlike her, I’m here to grow your money not suck your bank accounts dry. Sit back, relax and take a note or two. Its paper chase time!
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Hip Hop has seemingly found legitimacy, not just as a musical art form but as a derivative culture. The Hip Hop Diaspora has spawned sub genres of art forms from theater to visual art that have staked claims within so called legitimate venues for classical arts.
The Smithsonian in Washington DC is offering an exhibit featuring portraits of Rap music icons hung in the National Portrait gallery- next to the likes of George Washington. Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art is also presenting a 12 piece exhibition by Russian-born American painter Alexander Melamid: Holy Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid. Major theatrical institutions are commissioning and producing works by artist from the Hip Hop Diaspora. Corporate behemoths have long recognized the marketing value of usurping Hip Hop images and hiring rappers and other Hip Hip figure heads as spokesfolk, all adding t the legitimacy of Hip Hp and its commercial market share.
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