Re: Mo' Funk, Hip-hop and more

Gibo (gibo@ripco.com)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 20:32:02 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Luke McKeehan wrote:

> Re: Hip-hop and such. As a promoter it's obvious to me that when MCA
> concerts presents a nation-wide "hip-hop" tour, it can really only be so
> "underground". Recently with Pharcyde and The Nonce it lost that edge
> because it was so commercial. I don't want to talk about black and white
> because all you have to do is look at Shaq and Montell Jordan to see some
> wack tracks from the brothers. Personally, I feel it's the nature of mass
> culture and power that corrupts any musical form. To this extent, hip-hop

the last sentence is EXACTLY what I was trying to say. next time I won't
mention race, 'cause it just brings up a whole lot of stupid issues. my bad.

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> my headphones. Mass culture wants to make us all pimps, or bangers, or
> grunge -- it denies personal expression because it panders to the lowest
> common denominator.

exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself. I know this for a fact
'cause everybody on this list saw me put it a hell of a lot worse
myself.

let's close this discussion as we're cluttering the list.

giles bowkett - gibo@ripco.com
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