hip hop music

This blog, in its current form, is retired as of today.

The site you once knew as hiphopmusic.com has been assimilated. We appreciate the intelligent, rational, and educated insights and opinions that have been posted here over the years. However, over the next few days a few changes will be implemented. Any posts concerning anyone's opinion on the socio-political climate of hip hop and/or its effects notwithstanding on today's society on a whole will be immediately, permanently, and expeditiously destroyed and disposed of. Subject matter pertinent to the strategic repositioning and re-deployment of the site will consists of as follows:

- 24/7 Updates on the new live-action Transformers movie
- Constant speculation on all details of the new Star Wars TV series and guessing which
stars from the movie will make cameo appearances
- Projections of the 1st week sales of the Kids Incorported DVD box set.
- Reports on any and all advances in mobile communications such as Blackberry, Pocket
PCs and other gadgets.
- The occasional rap song that you haven't heard in 20 years and don't care that I have just
secured the recordings from the demo sessions to said song.
- More suprises to come!!

We hope that you appreciate our efforts to give a more universal and worldwide appeal, not to mention commercial viability, to our recently acquired acquisition.

Thank you for your time, patience, and consideration.
Please exit left.

Sincerely,
The Megatron Don.

"Persistence always overcomes resistance" - Mr. Magic
"..those who resist further will be assimilated" - The Borg or something from Star Trek.

This secret camera footage reveals the truth behind the takeover of hiphopmusic.com. More complete footage and details forthcoming.

UPDATE: We have now received the full director's cut of the hidden camera footage:

As another great Jedi master once said: I'm coming back in on a f**king horse. Two big announcements:

Soooooo, when I said I would announce hiphopmusic.com's new group blog lineup on Monday, I meant Monday as in Tuesday. Gotta prepare for my last minute invite to interview Charlie Ahearn(!!) on tomorrow's Wake-Up Call. But as soon as I finish that tomorrow, we are opening for business here. For real for real.

In the meantime please enjoy my Ill Doctrine Dipset Anthem:

As previously announced, I have a new home now at illdoctrine.com, where I will be making videos of some sort. This doesn't mean I'm retiring from this site, but I expect my already sporadic posting here to become even more sporadicated. So I have assembled some of my favorite writers and thinkers, and handed them the keys to the joint.

The new starting lineup for hiphopmusic.com is as follows:

Yesterday I announced our new groub-blog lineup, but I will keep posting here as well when I have time, especially to throw up audio whenever possible. This here is a conversation I had with Charlie Ahearn a few days ago, when he came through WBAI to promote his party tomorrow night in honor of Wild Style's 25th anniversary.

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While our new team prepares to emerge from the shadows, here's another video to tide you over:

truth, poets and money
inspired by the rebroadcast of oprah winfrey's unfortunate town hall meeting

Kelefa Sanneh’s article ‘It Takes a Tough Man to Tell a Bad Joke’ contrasts the serious attitudes of most rock stars with country singers who are more than willing to joke around: “While rock stars often try their best to make audiences forget they are professional entertainers, country singers have often been happy to celebrate the fact.” (23). Sanneh invokes Brad Paisley’s love-song ‘Ticks’ (“I’d like to check you for ticks”) and Toby Keith’s ‘High Maintenance Woman’ containing the chorus “A high-maintenance woman don’t want no high-maintenance man” (1). I know, I know… this isn’t www.war-mongeringcrackermusic.com, it’s www.hiphopmusic.com but bear with me…

First, the article is relevant to rap in that continues Sanneh’s assault against rockism. Second, although Sanneh never “goes there”, the attitudes and description of country music’s “freedom to mix the sublime and the ridiculous, in the interests of putting on a good show” could easily be said of hip-hop (23). Although hardly the article’s intention, it moved me to arrive at an ugly truth I’m not totally sure I can confront: rap and country music have a lot in common.

A little addendum to the previous rant..

Btw, any aspiring filmmakers/producers/editors/cameramen (camerapeople?), I will probably be looking for interns/assistant producers soon..