Not another 'state of hip-hop today' thread

Fruitonica · 12-03-2009, 04:09 AM

The problem with the articles is sensationalism, when you read them they're both pretty reasonable.

The thing to keep in mind is, when they say a genre is dead or dying, nobody is saying that it isn't producing good music. But that hip hop is gradually uncoupling from the zeitgeist of pop-culture, and I think for that reason you have to look exclusively at the mainstream when you want you're talking about this stuff, because the underground is never going to drive popular culture the way the mainstream did during it's heyday.

Hip hop is splintering and evolving, and really has ascended to a meta-genre status alongside rock, the sonic possibilities are so diverse, one of the differences that it hasn't been subjected to so many pointless genre divisions as rock has. It's never going to completely fade away as long as people enjoy the sound of rapping.

12-03-2009, 04:09 AM	#10 (permalink)
Fruitonica Pale and Wan Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aus Posts: 917	The problem with the articles is sensationalism, when you read them they're both pretty reasonable. The thing to keep in mind is, when they say a genre is dead or dying, nobody is saying that it isn't producing good music. But that hip hop is gradually uncoupling from the zeitgeist of pop-culture, and I think for that reason you have to look exclusively at the mainstream when you want you're talking about this stuff, because the underground is never going to drive popular culture the way the mainstream did during it's heyday. Hip hop is splintering and evolving, and really has ascended to a meta-genre status alongside rock, the sonic possibilities are so diverse, one of the differences that it hasn't been subjected to so many pointless genre divisions as rock has. It's never going to completely fade away as long as people enjoy the sound of rapping.