If hip hop dies, we die together

The first and probably most relevant thing that I can identify with on any sort of cultural level is hip hop. To me, hip hop is a culture and can be extrapolated on to any aspect of culture that would lend someone to individuality. Hip hop refuses to be marginalized, it combines precision with versatility and still demands respect and modesty from anyone who takes it seriously. 

I fell in love with hip hop a few years ago during what could have been one of the hardest points in my life. I was working and in school full time, which is torturous for someone as prone to procrastination and demanding of free time as I am.  Anyways one day I had to work a 23 hour shift dishwashing because both other dishwashers decided to bail and my managers had sold there souls years and years ago. I was anticipating a five hour shift so I had only brought one CD with me and we were allowed to listen to music. I ended up listening to Stillmatic by Nas 18 times that day as a means to grasp what little sanity was still clinging on to by that point. This song off that album has since been my favorite song of all time. Hip hop saved my life.