HIPHOP: the epitome of creativity, personal expression, life, struggle, pain, happiness, rising to the top, hustle, grind, competition, love, music, the human race, originality, and much much more!! HIPHOP is when you can deliver your innermost thoughts, feelings, ideas, and life eperiences to a beat without cloning the next man. HIPHOP is not speaking about topics of which you are ignorant to. It is about making a connection with people through similar experiences or feelings shared through the artform. HIPHOP is performance, lyrics, a story, authentic, and the greatest artform known to man. HIPHOP is dance, poetry, image, conscious, grimy, hood, suburban, retro, urban, and international. HIPHOP is people from every walk of life. HIPHOP is the north, south, east, and west. I am a part of the whole, a child in the family that we call HIPHOP and you are all my relatives. HIPHOP is growth and maturity as a man or woman. HIPHOP is money, business, commercialized, and underground. HIPHOP is loved, hated, accepted and growing through the ears of most. I like to describe HIPHOP as a painting gallery that I am a part of. The beat is the canvas, the mouthpiece is the brush, and the lyrics that come from the paintbrush are the colors that form the painting. HIPHOP lives!!!!!!