It's not a race issue it's just a musical taste issue. There are great black
hip-hop artists, there are great white hip-hop artists. I have black friends
with shit music taste, I have white friends with shit music taste. Hip-hop
is such a global thing now I think anyone who's generally into the culture
is qualified to to make comments on "what hip-hop needs" regardless of race.
Just because someone is black doesn't mean they know what's best for
hip-hop. I think odds are if people are into Anticon that these people at
least have a basic knowledge of indie hip-hop to have arrived at Anticon. I
mean we're not taking about the same sort of mentality/press exposure that
has white kids thinking Insane Clown Posse are the best hip-hop group ever.
And for what it's worth Quasimoto "The Unseen" is the best hip-hop record of
the last while (well that and The Infesticons record we released but that
would just be seen as shameless plugging on my part...ooops)
Jeff
on 1/29/01 5:41 PM, Rjyan Kidwell at cex@tigerbeat6.com wrote:
quoted 34 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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