Globally Hip hop is an urban youth culture which is a dominating force in the life of most young people throughout the world. This is clearly evident in the fashion trends, movies, technology, design e.t.c. The world over, young people are using Hip hop as their voice. As a form of popular culture and artistic expression, Hip hop as a global social movement is such a powerful cultural element of young people that has the potential to be very political empowering force.

Hip hop culture the world over is now being considered in some high institutions of learning as a viable academic discourse in order to investigate this phenomenon is an academic setting and also monitor events in attempt to participate in the ongoing culture.

Hip hop is not only a genre of music (rap), but also a complex system of ideas, values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, art, poetry, film, and fashion.

 

Hip hop is a form of music that is close to the hearts of many of its listeners. Rap lyrics echo familiar themes that fans can identify with including young people involved in street culture. The shared theme throughout Hip hop is being “real”. It is perhaps in this “being real” that culture finds its willingness to be arrogant and unapologetic in its brazen disregard for anyone that does not appreciate what Hip hop is.