As we get ready today to grill, play bid whist, bones and spades. I would like to give a shout out to all the Bruh’s on the courts. We know it’s your day off and that you still have Jordan fantasies and hopefully health insurance but I just wanted to give some thought to B-Ball as the fifth estate of hip hop. I think the reliance on improvisation; collaboration and infinite malleability make basketball a strong potential candidate. More than that I think that any time you get a bunch of dudes together and they are all wearing fantasy Jerseys or worse none at all (if you are going to play shirts and skins – take you ass to the gym), you have a strong case for fantasy. Quiet as it’s kept the real fundamental dimension of hip hop is fantasy. Only in hip hop can a street dealing kind become a legend in his own mind, complete with sound track and virtual crew. Only in hip cop can a white boy string together a prosaic line of insanity and be immediately accepted as “down” (Caution: Ordinary white boys do not try this at home or anywhere near black people may result in total isolation or if symptoms persist a severe beat down!).
From hip hop blogs.
Last year I wrote that the real 4 elements of hip-hop aren't DJ'ing, MC'ing, B-Boying, and Grafitti art, but instead it's music, dancing, style, and mentality, just like any other music culture. Some people have said that leaving out grafitti is a mistake. That even though graf isn't as commercially popular as the other elements, it was still a central player in forming hip-hop and exists today next to the MC's and B-Boys, undercover in the inner cities. My question for those people is this- if graf should be included, then why not streetball (aka basketball's urban, individualized cousin)?
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