I suppose there’s no accounting for taste. “Has hip-hop grown up? Duh. It always has because we always do. Every time the ex-kids who feel like they reinvented it get a little older, the new kids behind them start turning it into something else. How do the older ones react? They holler about ‘Hip-hop is dead’—the first time someone said hip-hop was dead was in 1979, the year ‘Rapper’s Delight’ came out. Meanwhile, the shorties have new clothes, new slang, new dances, new styles, new art, new music. Hip-hop still ages gracefully—we see you Erykah, Ghostface—and remains indecipherable to 30+somethings—whose knees never jerk the way they’re supposed to. The rest is just a small, if hot, argument across a mini-generation gap.” – “The Small, Hot Argument Across Hip-Hop’s Mini-Generation Gap” Jeff Chang / The Root
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