new aesop rock
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"def jux has done more for hip hop in the past few years than anything i can remember since the early nineties new school era."
That's exactly what irritates me. It's this narrow sense of hip-hop and what it should be and this sense of entitlement that divides rather than it expands it. It's closed-minded and elitist.
Def Jux has done plenty for hip-hop, but more than Stones Throw? More than Project Blowed? More than BET Freestyle Fridays? More than Missy Elliott? More than Hot 97? More than Kay Slay? Each one has an impact just as big or bigger than Def Jux. Do you not count these folks because it's a direction you don't like or because their contributions are not valid?
The idea that aesop rock has a right to use style wars just because he's on def jux irritates me. it's implied in the video, and I might be overreading it, but it looks like I'm not the only one that got that idea. No beef with def jux, but they're by no means the be all and end all.