Actually, I think hip hop being fully co-opted would be a great thing for music in America.

Hip Hop has ruined almost all aspects of music. It ruined r and b, because soul singers are scared to make songs without a rapper appearing.

It killed rock and roll, because people looked to include break beats and djs in there music.

Hip hop has become too much of a good thing.

Like a "fat kid loves cake."

Sure cake is good, but if you eat enough your ass gone be a fat mofo.

Hip hop will look like jazz does now, very soon.
Chet Baker is like Emeniem, not Elvis.

(Neo)Soul came and went and hip hop killed it.

Im not sure, what the answer will be.

What do you think will happen after hip hop is fully co-opted?

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i like the way you ask yourself a question in your subject lines. it's very arrogant. i might steal it

XLBubba said:

We are in the after, XLB. As a matter of fact, we're almost back to the future with the neo-minstrel show we have going on now.

"Hip hop has become too much of a good thing.

Like a "fat kid loves cake."

That is the funniest thing I have read in a long long time

Hip hop aint scary no more.

Hip hop is Pop basically now. Basically they run tin the same line.

U gotta go underground if u want tru soulfunk

XLBubba said:

If you mean "scary" as in iconoclastic, rebellious, taboo-breaking, and politically and spiritually conscious, you're exactly right. If you mean "scary" as in intellectually bankrupt (for the most part), nihilistic, stereotypical and just plain ignorant, it's that and more.

Right I'm so afraid of Nelly

Actually most people who buy Hip-Hop nowadays are surban white kids, then after a while they listen to it a while they start to believe they're black and think they know everything about the hood, just because they listened to Dr.Dre a time or two... do ur research XL before making a statment... :nods:

Anyways I don't know what people are so afriad of... Good music will never really go away
[This message was edited Mon Mar 3 17:58:52 PST 2003 by DigitalLisa]