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

J0rdan getting angry about this is pretty silly.

i'm not actually mad at this dude or this article just that these people exist in general

lol @ at these people in general

Paul Kix is an associate editor at D Magazine. He grew up on a farm in Iowa, graduated from Iowa State University, interned at ESPN the Magazine, and spent a year in Phoenix and a year and a half at the Dallas Observer, where he was a staff writer. He has in his office a remote-controlled Cadillac Escalade. It has spinners.

hey did he mention if he was a white dude from the midwest or not

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.

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looooooooooooooool perfect time for that .gif

lol @ deeznuts as well

for me the giving a damn aspect comes from the fact that this moron gets paid to write this shit

define "paid"

financially compensated in some way

I doubt if he gets paid too much.

By Salon anyway, I can't speak for Boston magazine.

Hip-hop is no longer cooler than me
It's a sad day when a farm boy from Iowa can say that about a musical genre he once loved. When will the YAHH TRICK YAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

-- J0rdan S., Monday, May 12, 2008 4:58 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Beat me to it, you asshole!

"Hip Hop died in the '90s. The last real hip-hop record was the first Wu Tang record. Everything else is just bullshit - including Jay-Z, Biggie Smalls and everything that Nas has done since Illmatic. And anything that's not from New York doesn't count - because it's not hip-hop anyway. It's just rap."

-- Alex in SF, Monday, May 12, 2008 4:53 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otm

this man has the exact opposite taste in hip-hop from mine

Young black men, arbiters of pop culture, raise your chains and fight!

70% of rap/hip-hop sales are to white folks

98% of ilx comments on rap/hip-hop are made by white folks

mtv is mostly owned by white folks

white people are people too

i like wu-tang better than soulja boy

http://www.impawards.com/intl/australia/2006/posters/book_of_revelation.jpg

i like wu-tang better than soulja boy is a popular new dance, I believe

crank dat i like wu-tang better than soulja boy

Oh ffs, this is apparently now an Internet Talking Point:

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/is-hip-hop-over.html

"Easy-E's bemused inventiveness"?, "the oeuvre of Biggie"?
Could you be more annoying?

-- maxban
[Read maxban's other letters]Permalink Monday, May 12, 2008 05:34 AM

something about the poll at the bottom of that article is hilarious.

xpost

i'm v curious about the comments but i have a strict lol fuck salon policy

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Yay! Death to Hip Hop!

Posted by: Neil | May 12, 2008 2:27:25 PM

white people are people too

only white working-class men in swing states, silly.

his opinions are fucking stupid and pretty CHALLENGING but not really all that uncommon, it's that he's basing those opinions on incorrectness assumptions of "fact" that is most infuriating

-- J0rdan S., Monday, 12 May 2008 21:02 (1 hour ago) Link

Dude weren't we just saying this about our own opinions the other night

at the super jackoff sesh

Just saying that being pathologically certain of the accuracy of your aesthetic judgments seems to be a job prerequisite for lots of critics.

can i chall-ops myself

Let's get back to deriding this clown

crank dat i like wu-tang better than soulja boy

-- max, Monday, May 12, 2008 10:06 PM (55 minutes ago)

wuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

why do lameos like wu tang

Maybe Paul Kix could move to the UK and moan about dance music like all the boring, wrong pricks here have for the last twenty years.

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.

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