Re: Jigga is a fool: Exhibit one

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:23:20 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups: rec.music.hip-hop
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Philosopher Steve Jackson says:<<THERE WAS NO GOLDEN AGE OF HIP-HOP!
F*ck what the so-called experts, opinion leaders, and revisionist
historians say. If you believe hip-hop is a culture or subculture or
just music to listen to, how can you declare a golden age when the
music/artform/culture is only 30 years old (approximatley). Rock started
in the 50s, in 1980 were they referring to 1960 as the Golden Age of
Rock???? (if anything, it'd be late 60s or early 70s) History repeats
itself constantly and we've (the ones who keep hip-hop culture and music
going) been talking this hip-hop is dead thing since at least 1995. And
I'm sure even before that. I agree with AttL. Hip-hop ain't going
anywhere and guess the f**k what? It's just as much apart of American
culture as television and football. What we gon' do with it? Are we
going to continue to let it run it's course so that we'll have infinite
genres and even more narrow sub-genres or will we fight until the real
is represented?? Lyrics haven't fallen off if you take your eyes away
from MTV and Power 99. And you don't even have to go underground to find
it either. THere's a middle road which most of us on here travel. We
follow cats that get some play but aren't in constant rotation but
they're still representin' in their own way and doing a damn good job of
it. And there are a host horrendous lyricist underground also. But we
won't even go there.>>
I believe that there was one, just like many other people do. That's the
short answer. I do agree with you about Power99 in that you can't expect
them to play anything that may be considered "underground". That's for
damn sure. And you're right in that it's the fan's job to dig for a
balance because radio ain't getting it.
<<Actually, for a minute you didn't even mention Jay-Z in posts that
weren't about him. Then you back to doing so. What happened????>>
Huh?! This thread WAS about Jigga-boo and all I did was respond to the
initial post. You STILL can do that, you know. And I've NEVER started a
thread about him, I just respond to what I've read someone else thought
about him. Nothing happened, you just "chimed in" a bit late. It
happens.