its not ‘open minded’ to only be into rap music that gets filtered thru nahright & the f*der.

so b/c the kids are into LCD bullshit like Girl Talk we all have to endorse it? no thanks. can’t we just, you know, point them in more interesting directions? that’s what older heads did for me when I was growing up. there’s nothing wrong with, you know, having taste.

I don’t buy your argument about it getting bodies on the dancefloor either. plenty of intelligent, creative music has smashed dancefloors. btw, Girl Talk’s pandering, middlebrow schtick isn’t new or fresh. 2 Many DJs, DJ/Rupture, even Shadow or Akufen or RJD2 or Negativland or any of the many people who’ve done something truly creative with sampling.

and of course “inner city kids” are still making gritty, bass-heavy music, the world over. you’re just not listening.

“over the last five or six years so few quality releases come out that it’s not even worthy of its own section at the store anymore..”

you’re a retard. Rap is the freshest music out, and certainly when you compare it to midget-house.

“i guess inner city kids just aren’t making music anymore..”

you’re a retard, no explaination needed.

well, actually she IS an art school drop out (she left Wesleyan [mgmt,boycrisis,etc] after 2 years) but she really disliked the school.

i think this “crisis” is totally overblown. so 808s is bullshit and swagger like us is wack.

wale, prgz, coolkids, clipse – so what if artschool white kids like me (i go to wesleyan) listen to them and they get great reviews on whiteboy sites like gorillavbear or pitchfork , its fuckin great hiphop. so what if white people with internets found out that mixtapes exist.

Well that certainly explains a lot.

“i guess inner city kids just aren’t making music anymore..a topic someone should probably study..”

ROFL.

Overall, i’m saying it’s time to give up the ghost and start exploring new music. In any record store i used to walk straight to the hip hop section and used to venture no further, but over the last five or six years so few quality releases come out that it’s not even worthy of its own section at the store anymore..and to worry about and as the blog seemingly cries about the genre losing its standing as cultural gate keeper of ‘cool’. well, all things come to pass. a new generation never arose. no one ever came to replace the big boys who came up between 92-95..and now all the puffys and jay zs and outkasts and pharrells and timbalands and rzas are pushing or at 40 years old! i guess inner city kids just aren’t making music anymore..a topic someone should probably study..

but the big question is: why isn’t MIA hip hop? seeing her live is simply two turntables and a microphone…i dare you to put on Kala with an open mind and listen to those first four songs and not think those beats and noise don’t simply clear the floor of all comers.

and p.s. santogold isn’t an art school drop out. she was an big label a&r was in a signed punk band and wrote all the songs on the great Res’ ‘how i do’ record…its not like she came from nowhere..