i think any objections to anticon's efforts should not be attributed to
their skin color, but to their social class.
The objections i hear mostly deal with the fact that they are a bunch of
over-internetted rich kids, who said "mummy, i want to play at hip-hop,
buy me a technics 1200 and a MPC2000" and then decided that they would
"revolutionize" it by making a web-site and a bunch of semi-experimental
tracks and getting alot of press.
Now i don't know how much of this is true, I don't know much of anything
about Anticon aside from the fact that they got started putting out tracks
on the internet, which screams "rich kid" to me ... the race issue is at
least partially relevant, as there are more rich white kids than rich
black kids ...
at any rate, i think Outkast is doing a better job of revolutionizing
hip-hop than anticon (for better or worse) and Andre is a much better
dresser than any of those white kids :)
josh
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rjyan Kidwell wrote:
quoted 35 lines i fully agree with their sentiment
> > i fully agree with their sentiment
> > that hip-hop needs to be pushed in new directions and i appreciate their
> > efforts to do so
>
> now, get me straight here: i'm saying white kids shouldn't listen to
> hip-hop, because they all should. nor am i saying white kids shouldn't make
> hip-hop or involve themselves in hip-hop culture. what i'm asking is: is a
> crew of white kids really qualified to make generalizations about what
> hip-hop needs to do and not do?
> "OK, Jay-Z, that's all nice and good what you do, but we're here and we're
> going to make hip-hop advanced now. Seeya."
>
> I guess I don't really have a solid opinion on Anticon, but I've encountered
> quite a few of their rabid fans -- kids who don't actively listen to hip-hop
> and/or buy new hip-hop records who are all too ready to say that Anticon is
> the "best thing in hip-hop". Meaning, I guess, that Anticon is better than
> Nelly or Shaggy or whatever is on MTV. It seriously seems like some people
> think that grabbing some Anticon mp3s off Napster makes you absolved of
> having to listen to any other hip-hop music. "Oh, I only listen to advanced
> hip-hop. But I have some Cash Money mp3s because they're funny."
>
> I hate to be the one that brings up racial issues here, but they're not
> going away if you stick your head in the sand. Or if you stick your head in
> the internet.
>
>
>
> -rk
>
>
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