[pinkgoth2]

As much as I have to agree that a lot of what is in hip-hop is crap, I feel I have to defend the genre a little from all these assaults. The music idea itself is not actually crap. Maybe I'm blessed by living in germany, where german is a very good language for rap songs (see 3te Generation, even though that's not hiphop (pre-hiphop era)).

I think the problem is that most people these days are so on the look-out for new genres in the music business, like hyenas. So the second something comes up, they GRAB it, without considering whether they'll be good at it or not. It's new, it's hip, it's a chance to take!

All the good hiphop songs are being drowned out by the utter mass of untalented crap out there (not saying the song OOOHWEEE is awfully smart, by the way, I just like it subjectively, not objectively), and it must be very frustrating for the bands that know what they're doing.

I've never seen a new genre hit so negatively before. Maybe for once the "we must be bigger, better, faster" mentality is being a little crap - in thinking this, a lot of people forget what DIRECTION they ought to go in.

HipHop is scarred.
Maybe for life.


- TyA