Hip-hop no longer cool sez white dude on Salon.com

Change of pace, y'know?

he grew up in the ghetto in los angeles, & has in his office a remote-controlled john deer combine. it is equipped to harvest corn.

-- deeznuts, Monday, May 12, 2008 4:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

major lols

"Its dances are silly, its beats infantile, its rhymes lazy"

It was always like that. A disgrace to the genius of black culture. Compare its best to anything by Gil Scott Heron and the Last Poets, its chief inspirations. And that's the 70s, not a great decade for anybody's art. Go farther back, say to the second Miles Davis Quintet, John Coltrane or Ornette Coleman, and you'll really feel sad. Want decent rhymes? There are generations of great black writers and poets. For great songwriting, check out the R&B movement of the 40s.

lol stanley crouch

anyone who still reads salon deserves this shithead

I am sorry to report this, but hip-hop is no longer cooler than me.

This guy sounds like he's been waiting to "report this" all his life

haaaa

and ya

what people said about... SALON.

Please let me be as cool as hip hop, please let me be as cool as hip hop, please let me be as cool as hip-hop... YES!!!

And that's the 70s, not a great decade for anybody's art.

So much RONG.

I mean, all over this article and everything else cited here, too.

Hispanics/Conservatives fite article is OK.

Funny that most/all of the letters that rate "editor's choice" or whatever are dissing the article.

hahaha there but for the grace of god

I don't know the moron who wrote this article to care about his opinions, but I know a lot of y'all well enough to be kind of disappointed that you can still entertain yourselves with threads about articles like this every 6 months.

are we grounded?

anyone who's doomed to willingly repeat the same thread this many times doesn't need further punishment.

i cant be arsed to read all of that article - seems so predictable but cant say i disagree that most new hip hop leaves me cold/bored. i like crank dat, low, etc etc as much as the next man but not in the same way i might have liked what was coming out say, a decade ago. or even as much as i liked saltshaker, get low etc.

This thread could be my new Macarena-zation fantasy.

this reads like one of those fake columns they do at the onion

otm

lol stanley crouch

No way. Crouch undoubtedly considers the R&B songwriters of the 40s to be hopeless sellouts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgMgLjMghuk

Most of what he criticizes "Crank That" for could equally apply to "Rapper's Delight."

Do you notice any similarities between ILMers getting worked up about people criticizing rap and right wingers getting hot and bothered over gay marriage? They're both equally predictable.

You must create some interesting slashfic.

it's funny how humans are!!!!

s1ocki i love your voice-of-reason zings but you're kinda going overkill with them lately :(

s1ocki no longer cool sez white dude on ILXOR.com

Don't worry guys, Sage Francis and Scroobius Pip are gonna make hip-hop relevant again.

The article is very boring and stupid and tl:dr. It's a shame it's a "talking point on the internet", because that probably makes it successful for the people who commission pieces on salon.com, and they'll likely want to put up more work in a similar vein. Sometimes I think the best thing to do w/such pieces would be to totally ignore them.

We are witnessing nothing less than the Macarena-zation of a genre

hip-hop died when the first Iowan said
When will the awful / dance crazes end