solum wrote:oh, come on.
please, mention a record made this century when you are bemoaning the current state of hiphop.
reducing hiphop to gansta rap is reducing rock to linkin park.)
Well, the point I was trying to make is that there hasn't been a damn thing this century in hip hop that I've found remotely interesting. Heiro is horrible, the quannum camp is dull, the stellar Company flow song off of Soundbombing made me realize how disappointing their two records were, PE has been a joke since '91, most of the new non sampled beats on those "avant-hop" types (Cannibal Ox, Dalek et al) is just scattery noise that isn't fun.
I'd never reduce hiphop to Gangsta because I understand the difference. I also feel that calling Andre's the love below "hip hop" is just as marginalizing as equating hip hop with gangsta. It's got more weight.
Faiz