Quote Of The Day
"One thing I think hip-hop did, for good and bad, was to kinda blur the line between music producer and music consumer. Unlike many forms of music that preceded it, the rapper didn't have to know music, per se. There were no notes to learn, no instruments to handle, just some words and a mic. Now the DJ and the producer, they might have had some musical background, but the MC didn't have to. And as the medium grew older and got more exposure, more and more people thought they could do it too. And so they did. At first, the goal was to get on the radio. Then, nevermind the radio, the goal was to sell it to people around the way. That kind of do-it-yourself-ism is admirable. But at the same time, it definitely contributed to the glut of mediocrity or worse that plagues the form now. Cuz some of these cats, I swear I don't understand how they got a deal. The most lasting legacy of hip-hop, I think, will be its tendency to be miscast. Both lovers and haters of the genre tend to paint it in broad, hyperbolic strokes. Hip-hop ain't some secret code that Black folks got of communicatin with each other. There may have been certain albums within the genre that were particularly effective at conveying a certain political message, but the genre as a whole? Come on, now. At the same time, hip-hop ain't the cause of the decline of whatever-whatever in Black life. Just like funk wasn't. Just like jazz wasn't. Just like the blues weren't. It's a genre of musical entertainment." — Avery Tooley, moderate-conservative blogger
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