Hopsin talks Keys to Success, Miley Cyrus, Molly, Turning Down Major Labels, Artist Responsibility, 

Big fan of your channel.

Thanks man I appreciate it! Small world, huh?

***** lol yeah.

Big fan big fan!

he is no longer underground, not even close lol

jason martin well he sure isn't mainstream!

Cobly Jerry Correction. He is "Tech" ;)

Cobly Jerry lol

#oxymoron

ZuKaBLU How? lol

you should check out lupe fiasco the cool full album. let me know what you think about his lyrics

Redsniperxrays Thats a good album, I like Lupe too, he speaks a lot of truth.

also i want you go check out lecrae rebel full album. if you want to listen to some great music. it rejoices me everyday

Mikey Terrible Sorry, but its a fact you are terrible.##

Jonathan Gaete 1 reason why

cory harris cause his name i mikey Terrible he is terrible the same way i cant deny that im Gaete!! hahahah -----> cory i will give u a like for ur thoughtless joke-not-understanding-comment so u be happy!! c:

I feel ya EZ I was wondering the same thing..

Jonathan Gaete The thing is you wasted your time coming to this video just to be a bitch when you could be doing so many more productive things with your life.

It's still kinda like that for people like Hopsin and I...but the videos are whats ruining the culture more than anything. Less lyrics...more glam and glitz.

Lmao

XD bravo lol

I was always wondering why Naruto's nose doesn't go all Hopsin when in sage mode... any ideas ?

Alex Vidaković Naruto has mastered Sage Mode, Jiraiya didn't so he never truly transformed correctly.

Zennousha D Lucifer Ty man didn't know that :D

Not knocking on you but em had more than one crisis. I don't really know a lot about hopsin but I wouldn't put him on that level YET

Yup agreed

+JokerUnbekannt he's referring to IF he had a crisis loyal fans would stay like ems fans because he speaks real stuff hear his truth

"I would slap her white ass up and down the country" 😂😂

He is legit. Sends good msgs to the kids about the drug epidemic,

dont ever say the most intelligent in the game before u havent seen others ..would agree with the radio rap shit but immortal technique is def up there

Well actually I can say whatever I want but thanks for the input

holy shit he doesnt look like 30

Right?

***** "Wrong!" I know you are. An entertainers job is to entertain people and that's it. Anything beyond that is a courtesy not a job requirement. Nor should it be. In the case of a musician their job is too relax people's brains with their music and get asses shaking in clubs. Selling sex is optional but appropriate. Why is it appropriate? Because within the entertainment industry an entertainers job is to wait for it....ENTERTAIN PEOPLE. Twerking is legal and it entertains people, so entertainers do it. Besides music artist have VERY little influence on society. Ratchet music is at most a reflection of cultural dysfunction. Not the other way around. And I can give you modern day examples of that.

***** Well, here in America Bloods and Crips have existed since the 60s. Before rap even came about and certainly before rap exploded into the mainstream public. So gangsters in the UK are probably just copying off of the ones in the US. Actually in an interview Nicki Minaj had in regards to one of her youngest fans(Sophia Grace) Nicki said that her music is not intended for kids to listen to it. But thanks to lack of parental guidance, peer pressure from friends/classmates, depression and immaturity kids do some of the things that Nicki raps about. Sorry, not her fault. Being a role model for your child and guiding your child to the standards you want them to have is your responsibility. Not an entertainer's. Now, I understand that with so many social pressures even great parents can be unsuccessful when trying to encourage their kids to be easy going and level-headed. But people like Nicki Minaj are called entertainers. Not entertainers/guidance counselors. For entertainers who want to be that way, then like I said, it's a courtesy. Not a job requirement.

***** My first point was basically that you can't blame rap music for those gangs you mentioned. But of course you can blame gangs for gangster rap. Because rap music(though not all of it) is at worst a representation of cultural dysfunction. Not the other way around. You don't believe that Nicki Minaj is oblivious to the fact that her music appeals to millions youngsters? Neither do I. But it still comes back around to what I've been saying. Expressing sexuality is all part of entertainment. Nicki makes young men horny as fuck. She markets herself that way because she knows it'll make her money. So when you think about it, you can't really blame the music artist, so much as their fans who strongly support what they're doing. And then of course Hollywood execs have to poke their noses into things every now and then. What comes out of that? Movies like "Get Rich or Die Trying" and "Hustle & Flow". Those movies don't just highlight the basic art form of rapping, the lyricism and what being an emcee is about . No, those movies focus on highlighting criminals becoming rappers, thus glamorizing a link between the two. Not all rappers were thugs before becoming rappers. But movie producers don't want you to know that. It all boils down to what needs to be done to make a buck. Like with most jobs outside of the entertainment industry.

***** As you said Socioeconomic ils are the cause of some problems. Then there are the reasons I named. Depression, peer pressure from people that you personally know, immaturity, and psychological problems which often stem from domestic abuse(whether physical or emotional). But those things have always existed. So you can't legitimately credit hip-hop as one of the driving forces behind it. Movies have helped turn gangster life into light entertainment too. As far as blacks you have race pimps like Al Sharpton who try to encourage black youth to believe that, no matter how much effort they put into being successful, they will fail because of racial discrimination. So him and people like him are probably a problem as well. Although that doesn't excuse the bigotry and racial prejudgement of people like David Duke and Bill O' Reilly. Be that as it may, in America, black murder rates(though still ridiculously high) were even worst before rap broke into the mainstream lime light. And the explosion of black illegitimate children started in the 60s along with bloods&crips. Nowadays, single black women are having less children than ever before. Married black women just cut back even more which is why the black "out of wedlock" birth rate still looks the way it does. There's many things that you can blame but the entertainment industry(especially music) is not one of em.

***** I've never lived in a U.K ghetto but I think that British bloods and crips are copying off of American gangsters. Not American rappers who rap about being gangsters(both those who are really gangsters AND THOSE WHO AREN'T). On MTV's TRL, Eminem once said "Not everything I say, is meant to be taken so literal." And he's right. To me violent rap lyrics are no different than violent movie scenes. It's fiction. Otherwise damn near every mainstream and underground rapper would be in jail right now for multiple counts of first degree murder. From what I've seen, rap music doesn't necessarily make you feel better about being a bum. It just relaxes your brain and temporarily takes your mind off of your personal problems. Like other forms of entertainment do. And as someone who grew up in inner city Baltimore I've seen first hand what the real reasons behind people "fucking up"(as Hopsin puts it) are. My aunt was an alcoholic for years. She was depressed because she was a lower-class diabetic and failed to get into the career she wanted. Then she had to put further attempts on hold to take care of my grandma. She had quit drinking eventually but not before she damaged her liver. She died from cancer October 2009. Like many people who are in their 50s my aunt didn't care for rap music. So it's pretty obvious to me that it played no part in her drinking problems. Before that I had a teenage neighbor/good acquaintance who sold crack. Not because "it's cool" but cause he was trying to keep himself, his brothers and mom from getting evicted. What I'm getting at here, is that there are millions of people like this throughout the world, as there has been for many decades. People don't really fulfill stereotypes(racial or otherwise) because it's cool, they fulfill them because, it's how they choose to deal with their problems. That's not the fault of any music artist. They should not feel the responsible for shit that they're not the cause of. If they do it's a courtesy. I'm sorry but that's just how me and people like me see it.

Yup real shit if no one agrees with this then there the people that are like the slaves on Lego movie following the instructions and that lmao

+corey sankey haaa that shit true i seen that with my daughter it's funny how kid movies have messages in them that mostly older folk understand

Perhaps they just dislike Hopsins' points, or they dislike what he's said.

And just putting this out there. The Jokerr, an entertainer who's friends with Hopsin, is another inspiring artist to look at when taking this independent route. On his Facebook, he makes statuses for artists/producers that are wanting to be in the music industry, by, you know, taking the independent route. Mostly everything is going online now. The internet is where it's at! So for any artist out there wanting a record deal, why? You've got the internet with all this valuable information and resources, you can easily do this stuff yourself. But no doubt there will be a long process to get to where you want.

you stfu to be real with you he's not original either he sound like a black eminem and that's my favorite rapper hand down and I love tech n9ne so wtf are you talking about not a damn thing like I said hip hop is wack as shit

well maybe I should've said I don't listen to most of the bullshit I'm ole skool I come from an era when music had a meaning this a lot of the music now day don't have that and I rep all kinds of music as long as it's good music u get me now

Krazy J Da Hitmaker TV OLD SCHOOOOOL PAVED THE WAYYYYYYYYY YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING!! and I am from the O.C./ OPIATE EPIDEMIC CENTRAL (BOSTON). IT HAS KILLED OFF SO MANY AND IM SURE SOME 20 SOMETHING YEAR OLD CAN TELL YOU THE SAME. I FUCKED AROUND BUT NOONE TOLD US THIS SHIT IS GOING TO GET YOU HOOKED. SO, WELCOME TO BEING DOPE SICK AND NOT BEING ABLE TO LIVE LIFE NORMALLY GET USE TO METHADONE OR SUBOXONE AND HEY MEETINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 STEPS! YEAH RUIN YA PRECIOUS LIFE DONT FOLLOW ANYONE. BE YA SELF STOP ACTING LIKE A DRUGGIE, OR A HOE OR A G IS COOL. GRADES ARE GOOD CUZ YOU GET A FUTURE WITH THAT! BUT, LEARN THE HARD WAY KIDS I DIDNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT WIN

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Yea, man. Better leave your personality at the door so you can get laid. So ironic, considering the interview :p

Huh? My personality has nothing to do with the music I decide to play when Im around females, you bitch ass nigga.

trilla dilla That has everything to do with it. If you refuse to do anything or talk/act differently around a woman just because then that means you're being a people pleaser and prioritizing your contentment over being truly honest and straight about what you like and who you are. It's all connected.

KingPinniped I'd never play his music around my parents. That's just called being respectful, not being 'truly honest and straight about what you like and who you are'.

KingPinniped Toastysock has a point. I may avoid playing certain tracks when I have certain passengers in my car or I'm at a party. This is because I seek to play what most can enjoy listening to. I like Hopsin, but I also like Bon Jovi, Pendulum, John Legend and even Danny Brown. I've once been a one kind of music type of guy and it was boring as fuck around other people because people always whined about what you listened to and I whined about their mainstream crap. I'd rather play something that they may not know but they may like instead. I'd never play a song that I disliked to fit in socially though. I'm almost sure that trilla dilla meant something like that aswell. Don't tell me though that you don't act different around different people. with one friend I may share a lot of personal things with while with another friend I may just want to fool around and have fun... it depends on relationships. With total strangers I'll just try to figure out what part of myself I want to express towards them. It's just not as simple as saying always be yourself because oneself may be a lot of things and not necessarily at the same time.

+Sandisizwe Strongman Heard

Heard

+KEN 777 Heard...I agree.

Lmfao the heeeaaseaard bahahahaha -goat jumps off building kills batman and starts zombie apocalypse-

***** His starting the Knock Madness Tour at Australia which starts like in a week.

***** Thanks man :D

***** Knock Madness U.S. dates were announced. You can check them out on the Funk Volume Facebook page; they have a picture of all the dates and locations. He is visiting over 50 different places all over the United States; tickets go on sale December 6th.

ikno fuck that bitch

he respects macklemore because hes also preaches in a different way. not rapping about sex, drugs, money, and bragging of life thats unrealistic.

agreed, i just think hes weak sauce and the neena goes hard. just a personal preferance

D'ster he raps about gay sex

EL95GE No he doesn't you fuckwit.

He's probably used to it by now.

actually you can't tell they're even there

and now i'm all like what else does he got to say, cuz i know its gonna be good shit lol

Yeah he does because he used to listen to eminem heaps when he was younger so it's like infused into His flow if you know what I mean haha

It's you he makes so many diff songs he probably did sound like em in one of them well in your opinion every body's different

ILL MIND OF HOPSIN 5 :p

You dumb man, i was talking bout the artist

im dumb man you were talking about the artist

Try to write him a private message on his fb page. Or sometimes he does chats with his fans when he isn't on tour, and there you can ask him anything you want

bring hip-hop back from what? hip-hop never died. great hip-hop music still exists. mainly from underground mc's.

trudon i feel sorry for you that you never experienced the 90's flow buddy. so you have no idea what hip hop was back then

i never experienced it growing up but i still went back and listened. don't tell me i have no idea what hip-hop was back then.

trudon the thing is is that you don't. you never lived through it. you never experienced the song when it came out. what they did for the world. now hip hop went from the fucking retarded people are famous and some are good in underground. there used to be everyone making a change and keeping hip hop up and once fucking people like 2 chainz and shit came around now its garbage. its all fucking shit

hows that knock madness a rediculous cd hip hop sinister what of the most ruthless tracks ever hes got bars for days his music isnt slipping just cause he isnt dissing rappers all the time now.....

or maybe hes telling you something you already knew

+Cesar JDM Ledezma See, people always say they "already knew" not to do stupid shit, like getting drunk and setting off fireworks in their back yard. But, next thing they know, their house is on fire. There's a difference between what you "know" and what you understand.

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