"By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman for ten years now, so the kids that are coming up now are the ones that have listened to that. Of course there's going to be information lost in that because businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. So if you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from. There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. We did that. We started putting that as a priority and the industry changed the requirements of what an artist is. The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful."
3. "so says the woman who married a billionaire." In response to Reply # 0
I get what she's saying (eventhough, rap only adopted that model after mainstream America was already knee-deep in it), but I still feel conflicted when a rich entertainer wants to get sentimental about the socio-economic condition of the underpriviledged. Also, didn't she perform with Jay-Z?
4. "1) They never married" In response to Reply # 3
2) He's not a billionaire 3) He was a member of a band she saw that she decided to get at, not some let's find a billionaire to fuck. 4) I know you don't give a fuck and will continue to use the but she married a Broffman as a dismissal, but she will also keep making sense. 5) Yes I am doing five much.
12. "what an empty-headed critique" In response to Reply # 3
she grew up in poverty, found affluence, understand that she has access to things other do not. this access is partly due to her talent/skill and being exotically pretty. i.e. she is "something" that can be funded and exploited
She understands this opportunity is rooted in systemic and structural inequalities and knows she (like few others) should speak about things here and there.
this line of reasoning would shut down the intellectual theories, intervention, and debates brought to the forefront by scholars the likes of Foucault, Butler, Cedric Robinson, Robin DG Kelley and Vijay Prashad.
it's asinine to believe that because some one has access to social mobility, they do not understand struggle, marginality or silences of a power structure that does not have your interest at heart
6. "To use her point as a jump off, id argue the current 'golden age' of hip..." In response to Reply # 0
Is due to the relative death of the labels and getting that kind of businessman cash is much harder to come by even with a hit single/videos etc...the old paradigm
7. "The earlier quote about indy vs major applies here" In response to Reply # 6
I'm really pissed at Quietus though for mentioning a list of 13 of her favorite albums and then not listing them. It's like they said, the fuck is with all this hip-hop shit. Let's just ask her a question about that rather than list em because they don't think that's their target audience.
8. "That's a limited view and the time line is off. " In response to Reply # 0 Tue Apr-08-14 01:37 PM by Buddy_Gilapagos
Early 90s there was a lot of diversity in rap. It was towards the end of that era that the we saw the homogenizing of rap but it wasn't as the Businessman but rather it was that of the thug. The the thug was replaced by the business post 2000 as the one homogenized face of rap. When you consider that the businessman replaced the thug, the businessman is an upgrade.
She generally just speaks out her ass.
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