Zimbabwe's Hip Hop Future

its been a while now since Zimbabwe’s Hip Hop started getting more recognition,airplay and most important of all a following.Looking at a country like Zimbabwe that does not easily adapt to change of any kind it is fair to say that Hip Hop is now ready to be endorsed as  a well accepted Genre of music.This is because it is now getting fair airplay on radio and there are now community hip hop events (in which yours truelly Magamba has taken part in a fair number of arranging most of them).

Now the question comes back to the issue that does Zimbabwean Hip Hop have a good future? Will Zimbwabweans view Hip Hop as a form of employment? Will Hip Hop gain any sort of respect as it has so much gained in other countries?What is Hip Hop or what would the Zimbabwean people want Hip Hop to be?In a time like this in Zimbabwe something like Hip Hop might have different kinds of meanings.Some may say Hip Hop is swag,a waste of time and some old school cats even connect Hip Hop with the ever changing wirlwind political situation.This is definately not the ideal future of Hip Hop when it is supposed to be respected as a culture or a way to express oneself through urban culture.This negetive atmosphere around Hip Hop may even cause  it to huff and puff but with no avail.

People tend to put their trust in a person  for example when someone’s track is sounding hot they say”this cat is the future of Hip Hop”.But in actual fact is it a hot track that makes the future of a big thing like Hip Hop?Does it only take one person to make the difference in Hip Hop?Is this what happened in countries that have a successful Hip Hop platform?Some might say that studying what went on in other countries for Hip Hop to be recognised will definetly help,will it?In the movies or true life stories or music videos an artist records at home and then heads to the street corner and starts selling albums and all of a sudden he’s made man and has millions of dollars.I tried that and i will  never ever do that again because i had a good whipping of my life by the police.

It indeed is a debatable issue of what the future of Zimbabwean Hip Hop might be.But then again the issue that Hip Hop is here to stay in Zimbabwe is not open for debate because it surely is here to stay.We all love Hip Hop,we all feel that Hip Hop is the future and the future of hip hop is now the most important thing on our minds.A hip hop artist named RussyAmplifaya was also quoted saying “hip hop is an embryo which needs no abortion”.This means that there is something to look foward to though we do not know what it will really grow up into.....