hey did he mention if he was a white dude from the midwest or not
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 May 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 12 May 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i1.tinypic.com/n2o8sy.gif
― am0n, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
looooooooooooooool perfect time for that .gif
lol @ deeznuts as well
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 May 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
for me the giving a damn aspect comes from the fact that this moron gets paid to write this shit
― deeznuts, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
define "paid"
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 May 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
financially compensated in some way
― deeznuts, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I doubt if he gets paid too much.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
-- J0rdan S., Monday, May 12, 2008 4:58 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
Beat me to it, you asshole!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
"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
― sleep, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
this man has the exact opposite taste in hip-hop from mine
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Young black men, arbiters of pop culture, raise your chains and fight!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
white people are people too
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i like wu-tang better than soulja boy
http://www.impawards.com/intl/australia/2006/posters/book_of_revelation.jpg
― J0rdan S., Monday, 12 May 2008 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i like wu-tang better than soulja boy is a popular new dance, I believe
― chinchillas they can fit on gorillas, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
crank dat i like wu-tang better than soulja boy
― max, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh ffs, this is apparently now an Internet Talking Point:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/05/is-hip-hop-over.html
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
"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
― Billy Pilgrim, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
something about the poll at the bottom of that article is hilarious.
xpost
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm v curious about the comments but i have a strict lol fuck salon policy
― gff, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40127000/gif/_40127544_students_203152.gif
Yay! Death to Hip Hop!
Posted by: Neil | May 12, 2008 2:27:25 PM
― Bodrick III, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
only white working-class men in swing states, silly.
― marc h., Monday, 12 May 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
at the super jackoff sesh
― and what, Monday, 12 May 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Just saying that being pathologically certain of the accuracy of your aesthetic judgments seems to be a job prerequisite for lots of critics.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
can i chall-ops myself
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's get back to deriding this clown
-- max, Monday, May 12, 2008 10:06 PM (55 minutes ago)
wuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
why do lameos like wu tang
― kl0pper, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Bodrick III, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Change of pace, y'know?
― Bodrick III, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
-- deeznuts, Monday, May 12, 2008 4:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
major lols
― deej, Monday, 12 May 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"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
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 03:07 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone who still reads salon deserves this shithead
― gershy, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 03:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
haaaa
and ya
what people said about... SALON.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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!!!
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
And that's the 70s, not a great decade for anybody's art.
So much RONG.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, all over this article and everything else cited here, too.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Hispanics/Conservatives fite article is OK.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny that most/all of the letters that rate "editor's choice" or whatever are dissing the article.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha there but for the grace of god
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
are we grounded?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone who's doomed to willingly repeat the same thread this many times doesn't need further punishment.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread could be my new Macarena-zation fantasy.
― briania, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
We are witnessing nothing less than the Macarena-zation of a genre
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
hip-hop died when the first Iowan saidWhen will the awful / dance crazes end
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link