this is the first time i've ever had to immmediately reply to my own post
and refute it but i just remembered that Mos Def was a rich kid
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Josh Davison wrote:
quoted 70 lines i think any objections to anticon's efforts should not be attributed to
> 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:
>
> > > 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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