Hip hop spirituality has a liberating influence that is identified in the U.S. Materialism in hip hop represents status, and status symbols always been a significant element in hip hop culture.
In the era of Flavor Flav and Slick Rick, they have gotten famous based on their status symbols. Meaning, their jewelry, chains, watches, and the grills in their mouth.
Status symbols in hip hop mean a lot to the youth generation, and in this present day, materialistic things are very powerful to the youth. In modern hip hop, the mainstream artists are often to create a name for a brand describing their materialistic possessions.
In popular culture, materialism is a dominant part of hip hop, and it is always expressed in hip hop music videos.
According to an article by Thornton Burkhalter, He states that this is true of the hip hop community especially, as a 2014 study conducted by Podoshen, Andrzejewski, and Hunt, shows that people who listen to hip hop primarily exhibit higher levels of materialism.
These findings, in tandem with the long-term associations between materialism and self-hatred and self-destructive urges, compulsive buying, and self-doubt and insecurity. materialistic objects is affecting our society, and purchasing things can be addictive to the consumer. The world is brainwashed by materialistic things that are expressed in hip hop itself, the idealistic concept of hip hop religion does bring everyone together in one whole.
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