>Something needs to come along and reduce this shit back to
>its basest elements.
>
>No matter how many bodies these cats catch or coke they sell
>on record, this music has long since lost its ability to shock
>or scare even lily white 55-year-old investment bankers (half
>of whom probably have a TI joint on their ipood workout
>playlist).
>
>At this point we need something to come along that threatens
>the established guardians of the genre. Not a new-jack to come
>up and challenge Jay-Z to a battle but some new jacks whose
>very existence makes folks young and fully realize how
>irrelevant these Rap Dinosaurs have become.
>
>It needs to be something extreme enough that it brings the
>'AND THEY CLAIM THAT IT'S MUSIC!'(c)PE/FearIntro crowd back
>out of the woodwork.
>
>Something that potentially embarrasses the
>fence-straddling-old-heads-still-tryin-to-be-down into either
>getting fully on the bandwagon or hopping off for good.
>Material uncomfortable enough to confuse some of today's youth
>who aren't even old enough to remember shit like the Newsweek
>cover story of 1989 or the FBI Letter to NWA, when this music
>was actually 'threatening' for reasons beyond their favorite
>MCs police-blotter appearances.
>
>Something that simplifies shit back to its rawest form like
>Sucker MCs in 83, Criminal Minded in 86 or even Wu-Tang's
>debut but not in this day-glo purposely-retro format
>propogated by groups like The Cool Kids.
>
>Not in the form of some super-lyrical multi-spitting display
>of verbal wizardry either. That shit has gone as far as it can
>or needs to go.
>
>Rap is long overdue for a watershed 'punk rock' reaction in
>the vein of the Stooges or Ramones first two records.
>
>It needs to be stripped of its artifice immediately because
>much like rock by the early 70s, this music no longer is
>really anti-establishment. It actually is the establishment.
>
>Maybe the blowback I'm hoping for won't even resemble rap
>music at all, I don't have any particular sound or image in
>mind.
>
>I just know I'll know it when I hear it and I know it isn't
>here yet. I may even hate it when it comes but I'll gladly
>welcome its arrival because this 'fad' I grew up with has long
>since devolved into idol-worship and self-parody.
>
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