IĬan appreciate some of the best hip-hop products on many levels, from "stillborn music" to transform into "living music" is much harder). Its cunning ways of overcoming racism - like, for instance, sending anĮlvis Presley, or, heck, even an Eminem our way - whereas for (The second obvious reason is racism, but music has (whatever that is) as the inarguably leading force and dominant genre
Hip-hop has not and probably will never fully replace "rock music" Will always be furthermore, it is also the first obvious reason why Many people, this has never been a problem, but for me, it has, and Than 12-bar blues vocalising, since there is no actual singing / vocal Rapping, and rapping, by definition, has even less melodic potential "stillborn" to a certain degree: the only "live" element there is the Into a rigid artistic limitation, meaning that most of hip-hop is Tarnishing the very beginnings of the genre, has eventually transformed Owed not so much to some post-modern cultural ideology as to the simpleįact that block parties in the 1970s typically couldn't afford a decentįunk band for their entertainment. "meta-musician", the DJ with a turntable, and its very appearance is "musical genre" where the central figure was not a musician, but a Music" in the same way as "blues is music", "rock'n'roll is music", orĮven "electronica is music" (although some of the more hardcoreĮlectronic releases, bordering on "plunderphonics", certainly share the Said, I still have serious trouble accepting the idea that "hip-hop is (Inįact, as of now, I believe I voluntarily sat through most of them, and Or asserting that I'd rather listen to Nickelback and the Backstreetīoys all day long than voluntarily sit through a hip-hop classic. Has never been art" or that "all rappers should just fuck off and die", Me complaining that "all hip-hop is dumb" or that "hip-hop is not and Hip-hop seems to be doing marginally better than almost any otherĬontemporary form of sonic art (largely due to artists activelyĬross-breeding it with almost the entire history of music, though I'm Ups and downs, and, in fact, it's quite telling that as of the 2010s, No doubt, either, that this form of art has not been completely uniformĪnd stagnant over the past four decades, but has evolved and had its Sartre into hip-hop if you really want to). Simply anything that you want it to be you can turn Shakespeare and Whether hip-hop is deliberately and innately anti-social, violent, (I totallyĪnd completely refrain from the old and useless discussion about Lyrics and rhymes might be, how dense and imaginative the samples, howĬatchy the beats, how impressive the overall "message", etc. How energetic and sincere-sounding the vocals are, how complex the May find art pieces both good and bad, depending on many parameters. Is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that a form of sonic art, primarilyīased on rapped vocals over musical samples and programmed beats, mayĮxist as a form of art, and that within that particular form of art, we So make this my background, not that of the Ol' Dirty Bastard. General, before I embarrass myself in particular. it probably makes sense for me to say a few words on hip-hop in Important review - my first tentative discussion of a hip-hop album ever Healthy injection of East Coast grit into the somewhat softened WestĬoast paradigm, and suchlike. The stage was set in the early 1990s to reinvigorate the genre with a In this opening section you would probably be expecting comments on theĬomplex relationship between East Coast and West Coast hip-hop, and how Take the Rap-Buddhism way to grow your powers! 9) Method Man 10) Protect Ya Neck 11) Tearz 12) Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II. 1) Bring Da Ruckus 2) Shame On A Nigga 3) Clan In Da Front 4) Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber 5) Can It Be All So Simple 6) Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' 7) Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta Fuck With 8) C.R.E.A.M.
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