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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I don't get why people have this hatred of arrogance in their art. Art is naturally narcissistic in it's self since the artist is essentially projecting their personal identity and thoughts into an abstraction assuming that people want or need to experience it. Maybe not as openly bumptious as a Kanye, but still fairly egotistical.
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4'33" and other aleoteric Cage works are an exception.
Not wanting egotistical rap will indeed close you out of a lot of great stuff (like El-P, who turns the concept on its head in a way), but it's pretty clearly a response to early 2000s gangsta rap that was braggadocious and not much else.