I guess the 'hiphop is dead' idea has been around for a while, and aside from Timbaland's work I can't recall liking any hiphop I've heard in the past ten years, but I was kinda 'yeah, well' about it all. Just lately, though, I've started actively disliking hiphop. Like, what's the fucking point of it? If no one had made a hiphop album after 1992, would it really have mattered?
I guess this view may have something to do with the recent high profile carryon with youth crime and taggers. While the more Winston Peters part of me has enjoyed the 'kill a tagger, die a hero' sentiments from some parts of the community, I can see that short of turning back time and intervening in these children's upbringing, there's nothing much we can do.
I do find the Government's tagger crackdown quite funny. The problem's been around for years, but it's only when a mild-looking middle aged white guy shivs a tagger that the issue is deemed worthy of real action. Still, it's election year and what the populace wants, the populace shall have!
It might be time to confess that I'm thinking of switching from the Greens to National this election. Though given my current mood, I fear that National is too left-wing for me.
Posted by stuart at February 16, 2008 7:01 PMYou don't like partying, so of course you don't see the fucking point of it. :)
I deleted another few screens of stuff about politics.
Posted by: michael at February 17, 2008 8:05 PMPersonally, I find most hip-hop between the cross-over of Run-DMC to... ooo, about 1992 to be massively overrated sacred-cow rubbish. Examples: Public Enemy, NWA, De La Soul. Can't say anything against them, especially if you're a middle-aged liberal white guy who completely and utterly tows the line on what was hip (ie taste as an accessory) during his (unlikely to be a her) youth.
Also, is your swing toward National motivated by the fact that Katherine Rich is resigning?
Posted by: Andrew at February 18, 2008 10:01 AMAh, Andy, you'll *love* this blog: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
Posted by: Stuart at February 18, 2008 4:52 PM... and if it were solely about partying I wouldn't be so offended by it.
PS, anyone amused by the fact the Killer Beez have started a diss fest with Dawn Raid? They be keeping it real, it's all about tha fame, bros before hos, [insert tired cliche here].
Posted by: Stuart at February 18, 2008 5:01 PMOh, I wasn't talking about the subject matter, just the point of the genre.
Posted by: michael at February 18, 2008 8:06 PMI like the early Wu Tang and related albums so push it out to about 1996 and I'll concede your point. Though, every time I say some to the same effect someone'll point out some really good stuff that no one ever heard of.. apparently you have to dig "Beneath the Surface" (ridiculously smug GZA reference).
Posted by: drinks-after-worker at February 18, 2008 9:48 PMI don't see the point of rock post-1994.
Anyway EVERYbody is listening to country music these days.
Posted by: Pearce at March 14, 2008 8:58 AM