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Authentic hip hop has become the rise not of a collective, but of superficial individuality. There is no "authentic" Hip Hop. When people talk of "authentic" hip hop, they speak not of "truth" but of a collective memory fetish. They instantly regress to a self they no longer are, the one that clings to the blanket, which is to say, to that "hip-hop" sound. ... and listen to and create with, BD 10's, 808's, synth stabs, and the same cliched breaks and rhythms. Much of what is called "hip hop" today has lost it's distaste for cliche. It has thrown itself upon the sword like the honorable act of samurai, but its suicide is less honorable having killed itself for nothing more than fame, money, or worse, "Authenticity." The question and revolution should follow the roots of hip hop. And by its roots, I mean its roots in musical artistry, in the creation of not the same tired cliches but a voice of original expression. To move beyond hip hop is to be faced with a mystery... it may not sound like what you are used to, it may not be what everyone else thinks is hip hop, and it may not be recognizable, but, here in that precise moment of confusion don't think, don't turn.. |
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