Exploitation of Hip Hop

World Star Hip Hop is a website that was created for independent artist to display their works through video blogs or music videos. In the beginning the website did just that, but as of lately things have changed dramatically. They have now taken over as a source for distributing your works as a major artist. The independent artist are now charged large fees for distributing their works. The website is cluttered with large banner advertisements and illegal copyrighted material. YouTube has been in constant lawsuits with major labels over the distribution of copyrighted material without the consent, which has open up the gates for World Star to be a platform to distribute music videos. The website no longer has any substance to it, it's only about the money now. A platform for anyone with the cash to distribute pure lack of talent and ignorance! For example a video showing major rap artist 50 cent counting millions of dollars, I ask how is this relevant to the music industry.

World Star Hip Hop is not even about hip hop at all anymore, it has become more of a TMZ for hip hop culture. It also exploits people by displaying embarrassing home footage of individuals who have not consented to have this shown. YouTube on the other hand gives individuals the ability to report videos to be taken down, but not on World Star where it is archived for who knows how long. The hip hop culture in about be creative and innovative with the ability to adapt to the culture changes. What happened to rapping about politics or social injustice? Well thanks to this website and others like it, the young children's minds will be poisoned with this filth. We need to bring back Yo MTV Raps! and Rap City, which enriched the culture of hip hop with its daily programming and filtered out all of the non-sense.