death of hip hop
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"I won't say that hip-hop is dead. But it does seem to be doing a good impersonation of being at death's door. More to the point, judging by its output in recent years, it's become a deadening force: as a listening experience, but also as something that maintains a deadlock on the musical imagination (and personal ambitions) of Black American youth. I doubt very much that this demographic has no more surprises up its sleeves in terms of sound and style, judging by past form(s) (jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, house, et al ). But that New Thing won't come until they tire of hip-hop themselves and turn against it."
Hip-hop has done what all musical forms have done before it; become popular, commodified and then left for dead by the masses looking for the next big thing, or the next big "sound" in this case which is moving towards acts like Justice, Crookers & Diplo (more club-centric sounds) because young kids in a world of temperance need to be high as a fucking kite and dancing furiously in order to feel alive...
- Let's get to the new thing then...I hope it's not Diplo LOLukit