Concerto of the Desperado
December 29th 2006 04:43
"Its the hiphop purist/Who'll leave you lost like a tourist..." Black Thought (The Roots - Illadelph Halflife)
Hiphop has gone to the shitter, for how long no-one knows.
I was once what is known as a hiphop purist, without nothing else in my music collection, wardrobe, and mind. We all differ with our philosophies - mine being that hiphop, within a certain scope, is you, and you can be whoever the hell you want to be (say that to the mirror).
Nowadays rnb, dub, reggae, crunk etc have clogged the airwaves, leaving me feeling very old school. Fiddy and Eminem are pumping the "I'm a big boy now" rap, something I refuse to believe is hiphop. If you disagree, you must not know.
While Chamillionaire is complaining about being caught riding with his stash in the glovebox, racial profiling is just as common as racial stereotyping. And its not just other races with certain judgements and expectations, it also comes from within.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Maybe they were mashed together at that point in history when they realised people of different lifestyle and skin colour exist?
Shouts to Roy Ayers and Amel Larrieux for shaping, then breaking, the mould (for those fanatics in the US at least)
Hiphop has gone to the shitter, for how long no-one knows.
I was once what is known as a hiphop purist, without nothing else in my music collection, wardrobe, and mind. We all differ with our philosophies - mine being that hiphop, within a certain scope, is you, and you can be whoever the hell you want to be (say that to the mirror).
Nowadays rnb, dub, reggae, crunk etc have clogged the airwaves, leaving me feeling very old school. Fiddy and Eminem are pumping the "I'm a big boy now" rap, something I refuse to believe is hiphop. If you disagree, you must not know.
While Chamillionaire is complaining about being caught riding with his stash in the glovebox, racial profiling is just as common as racial stereotyping. And its not just other races with certain judgements and expectations, it also comes from within.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Maybe they were mashed together at that point in history when they realised people of different lifestyle and skin colour exist?
Shouts to Roy Ayers and Amel Larrieux for shaping, then breaking, the mould (for those fanatics in the US at least)
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