Nigerian Hip-Hop and Youth Identity

Today, young people are surrounded by various influences such as friends, family, social media and so on. Among young people, they are trying to grasp their identity. The growing popularity of hip-hop music in Nigeria has had a great impact on young people in Nigeria and other areas. It places great emphasis on adding English and Nigerian languages ​​to their songs and allows them to connect with young people all over the world. Today 's music in Nigeria can send a positive or negative message to young people. It can transmit music about women, money, power, sex, or you can make your government accountable for that promise.

Hip-hop music is alienated, is a voice of frustrated young people, is a multi-billion dollar cultural industry built and sold worldwide. Hip-hop music is a multifaceted subculture that goes beyond many of the popular features used to explain other music-led youth culture. An important consideration of hip-hop music is that hip-hop music has been more effective and efficient to stimulate black social identity than the civil rights movement of the 1960s since its founding in the early 1970s .

Youth culture and hip - hop culture become entities of synonyms when critically thinking about how they interact. In the late 1970s, hip-hop became a true cultural expression of African-American city youth. The foundation of hip hop and hip hop culture comes from the creative self expression of African-American youth living in the dyed city. Since then, hip hop has expanded and has expressed many young people all over the world. Through hip-hop culture style, sound, lyrics, young people with all cultural backgrounds will start to find identity through hip-hop culture. Since the advent of this type of music, hip - hop music experienced multiple stages within its existence. Recently, hip-hop has been commercialized and profits from large companies trying to profit from this real culture. Discussions between culture and business are common when discussing the perspective of modern hip hop.