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[crusher_of_heads]

Hip hop and its fans personify bad taste.

[billybrobby]

[JMO]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I'm 29, and while I haven't followed hip-hop music since its inception, I've been there for the genre's halcyon years. I grew up listening to the spectrum hip-hop music had to offer -- everything from afrocentric , jazz-inspired rap (Native Tongues); afrocentric, revolutionary-inspired rap (PE, X-Clan); gangsta rap (NWA, Ice-T); and MCs and groups who amalgamated the music's various sub-genres (Gang Starr).

And it bugs the sh*t out of me that fans of hip-hop music these days feel that they need to compartmentalize their tastes, that they can't appreciate the insightful music of someone such as Immortal Technique and also dig the more accessible -- yet undeniably talented -- work of Kanye West.

Good music is good music, whether it's on the radio or your best friend's best friend's acquaintance's best kept secret. Sure, I don't like most mainstream rap being released these days, but an equal or greater proportion of so-called underground hip-hop sucks just as bad -- if not more, because it pretends to be cutting edge and innovative but can't mask the fact that it's insanely boring and lacking panache (which hip-hop music should be a synonym for).

I can't count on one hand how many new hip-hop MCs or groups interest me. The talent pool has grown stale. But there are still some artists making great music, both mainstream and underground. And occasionally somewhere in between.

Dev: If you've grown tired of hip-hop music, perhaps you never liked it in the first place. I may grimace when I hear a Young Jeezy song, but don't hate the sport because of some overpaid, untalented players. Every art form has its share of phonies. Are you going to stop believing a classic horror film will be made because one hasn't for the past few years?

Here's the thing about great art forms: they always find a way to resurrect themselves.

[safeblad]

two words

Definitive Jux

...I'm not sick of it yet

[Treefarmer]

there is still a lot of good hip hop coming out you just have to look harder

but even some of the more mainstream stuff is good, pharoah monch and ghostface have both been on form this year and they are very mainstream, not to mention the slightly less famous people like mfdoom and sage francis who just seem to have an endless supply of ideas.

i think the problem is that 10 years ago hip hop got a lot less mainstream exposure so even commercial people like jay-z and nas didn't seem that bad when they were played on mainstream radio, but now that there is more demand for hiphop than rock, so much stuff gets overplayed

and saying you are sick of hiphop is a bit like saying you are sick of books in my opinion, there is so much history to check out that you can just listen to 'golden age' stuff and there is enough to keep you interested for years that you probably missed out on first time around

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[Natalia]

Hip hop is one of the most banal things to ever hit popular culture.

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[OiGirl]

It's great for those of us with ADD and no drugs...

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