Reply #3: Did you read the threads about Hip Hop this morning? [View All]

Asking when Hip Hop will die and declaring it to not be music is at the very least incredibly xenophobic, sheltered, and classist, if not outwardly racist. To me that pretty much mirrors the attitudes that dictated the entire governmental response to Katrina.

I actually don't like much modern hip hop. I think that as it's dominated the charts the form has lost the social and political edge that made me love the early stuff. I find most of what's out there right now to be pretty lacking in substance, but I'm not going to ask when it will die. I honestly hope and believe that it will come back around. But in the end, who the fuck cares what I think as long as I'm not declaring it "not music" or calling for it to die as an art form?