Yesterday, my hip-hop band, Planet Zoron, rocked the Tallahassee Roller Derby Girls game. What a time it was! There were well over 500 hundred in attendance. The game was exciting and featured women of all different shapes and colors skating, checking, and strategizing to be deemed the winner.
But indeed it, is interesting that Planet Zoron was selected to perform during the intermissions. What does this say for hip-hop? I think it's a testimony to hip-hop being a viable music genre, and thus, it testifies to hip-hop not fading out as many thought it would (including my dad). Yes, Oronde says Hip-Hop will not be like disco.
Our audience was mostly Europeans with sprinkles of "minorities." Roughly estimating, I would say that perhaps 30% were over 40. But our band proves that hip-hop does break all kinds of barriers. Even at the game, I spotted a senior citizen cutting the rug to our tunes. Moreover, the D.J (shouts out to K-Dog) played mostly hip-hop the whole bout.
The moral to the story is hip-hop has grown tremendously in the last ten years and hip-hop has always been the voice of urban culture. Initially, it did not appeal to older people. However, through it's growth, hip-hop has broken a host of barriers that existed before. It has undoubtebly alleviated tension between all young cultures in America. If nothing else we can relate to what is in our Ipods-lol. In contrast, it allows older people to understand the voice of the young culture. This bridges the gaps between generation(s). So I wanna give a big ups to Capital Punishment's (Ranked 66 in the world) victory last night and formally thank them for allowing us a chance to rock! Go Hip-Hop go! Zoron! Enjoy this footage of our squad. This isn't last night's game but hopefully I will have footage up soon!
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