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Decent piece on the state of hippidy hop
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/nov/26/notes-noughties-hip-hop
When will hip-hop hurry up and die?
meh.
feel like i've been reading this same article for the past ten years.
sure it's past it's heyday, but still plenty of interesting stuff out there. if you limit your scope to chart success you'll find most genres in a very poor state.
I'm quite bored with the majority of hip hop out there and listen to less and less of it, but I find that's more to my changing tastes rather than the state of the music. there's still fantastic stuff being made, but people's attitudes change and they get disappointed when tunes don't knock their socks off like they used to...and these moaney articles irritate me much more than stale tunes do.
also, on the irish side of things... http://www.nialler9.com/2009/11/26/irish-hiphop-kick-arse/
hip hop - for last few years be going back to older stuff, wheteher it biggie smalls, tribe called quest ( especially - love movement ) , de la soul, the roots, gang starr - proper lyrics and beats - example - the rep grows bigga:
When will Simon Reynolds hurry up and fuck off. Yes, yes, things were better back in the day. we get the message already.
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mainstream stuff is totally shite, but its a bit like saying electronic music should hurry up and die coz david Guetta is rubbish .
John Robinson ' Im Not For Sale' one of the best albums i've heard this year ( from last) . Lots of great things going on by extension in hip-hop particularly the guys embracing electronic producers & sounds. there's no one big scene nowadays all about diversity and micro-pigeon holes
interstellar_fugitive said:
When will Simon Reynolds hurry up and fuck off. Yes, yes, things were better back in the day. we get the message already.
truer words never spoken - also hate the way he has always brought a rock journalist style to writing about electronic / urban music - not to mention a really surface appreciation of hiphop
still plenty of goodies around, new 8Ball and MJG for example.
but of course these rock journos need full albums - they don't have a fucking clue
illanja said:
truer words never spoken - also hate the way he has always brought a rock journalist style to writing about electronic / urban music - not to mention a really surface appreciation of hiphop
still plenty of goodies around, new 8Ball and MJG for example.
but of course these rock journos need full albums - they don't have a fucking clue
yup simon reynolds is a total headwreck. thats whats hes aiming for id imagine though.
considering he maneged to piss off the whole team of new beatmakers i.e lotus and pretty much all of hyperdub earlier in the year im surprised he actually doesnt have a positive view of where the contemporary hip hop is going and stops writing about shit pop music.