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
this reads like one of those fake columns they do at the onion
― J.D., Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
otm
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lol stanley crouch
No way. Crouch undoubtedly considers the R&B songwriters of the 40s to be hopeless sellouts.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgMgLjMghuk
― fantasimundo, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Most of what he criticizes "Crank That" for could equally apply to "Rapper's Delight."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
You must create some interesting slashfic.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
it's funny how humans are!!!!
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
s1ocki i love your voice-of-reason zings but you're kinda going overkill with them lately :(
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
s1ocki no longer cool sez white dude on ILXOR.com
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't worry guys, Sage Francis and Scroobius Pip are gonna make hip-hop relevant again.
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 16:48 (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