quoted 5 lines What about jungle then? I'd mark out that 'genre' as innovative.>> >What about jungle then? I'd mark out that 'genre' as innovative.
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>> well it WAS.
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>and Rap?
Well, obviously genres can start out being 'intelligent' or 'innovative', but as these genres acquire more artists and listeners, you're bound to eventually end up with some crap. I suppose the more general the term for a type of music, the better; once you establish parameters and stylistic guidelines for a type of music then that restricts to a certain degree where individual artists fit in to the classification scheme.
Hip-hop has unfortunately become very boring and formulaic. Maybe MC Solaar or Method Man should put Luke Vibert or Tricky in the producer's seat (or how about Mu-ziq vs. the Dogg Pound? ;) Now that kind of collaboration would produce some interesting results.
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