Originally Posted by
Bikerpunk
With all due respect, I respectfully disgree.
Whereas initially it could be argued that it's about cash from chaos, and a kind of DIY-spirit, I'd say that hip hop lost the plot just like punk eventually did.
Railing against a control structure (punk) is vastly different from celebrating the benefits of a control structure - you knows, womens bein all hoes and nuttin on ma dick kind of bullshit. Punk wanted to fuck up a system, not other people.
And punk was a DIY ethic. Build. Make something. Not to celebrate a culture of standing around in baggy clothes, ripping off a style from someone who ripped off a style who ripped off a style, practically slurring your speech cause you're too FUCKIN lazy to even talk never mind get angry enough to shout. And as for spinning a record with a metronome recording, that's the best musicianship they can come up with?
Punkers built their own clubs, started their own labels, and didn't give a fuck about anything other than simply giving themselves freedom and money with which to continue it. Whereas rap, sure it was about the money, but the money was used to make ugly diamond rings and I be all got da benzos an da hoes and da crissy, ah fuck off.
Yeah, I'm givin ya a racist stereotype, but that's what rap has turned into, a giant racist stereotype. And please don't dredge up some shit that's got an audience of four people that bucks the trend. Rap has lost the battle to be about street poetry. Allow me to quote from the YING YANG TWINS
ASS JIGGA JIGGA IT
A-A-A-A-A-A ASS JIGGA JIGGA IT
A-A-A-A-A-A ASS JIGGA JIGGA IT
ASS JIGGA JIGGA IT
ASS JIGGA JIGGA IT
MOTHERFUCKIN WIGGLE IT MUTH MUTH MUTHAFUCKIN (repeat a bunch of times) WIGGLE IT
Oh great in comes the Casio keyboard. A perfect complement to these modern Shakespeares.
Punk lost the plot too. I don't want to be fuckin lectured about your goddamn McDonald's capitalist vegan wholefood emo bullshit or whatever, get on the goddamn stage and rock the shit out of the stage, be it GABBA GABBA HEY or FUCK MY SHIT STINKS (Dayglo Abortions rule!) And if you're going to be so goddamn passionate about something, at least let it be something that isn't patently fucking obvious. I mean, apart from defense contractors who's in FAVOR of land mines?
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