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Posted by Ishwip, Thu Jun-07-12 01:14 PM
>see that's whats bothered me so much about rap coverage in
>the middle of the aughts, it was white males who grew in
>middle class suburbs, who aquired their taste for rap through
>the internet, becoming the new gate keepers. they grew up with
>the commercial stuff of the late 90s/early aughts, which was
>in direct opposition to the stance of the old guard, and felt
>no qualms about their positions, because they're white, middle
>class, and entitled/privileged. they just willy nilly will
>jump on whatever wave and stick their noses up at whoever is
>now in opposition to them and the new face/sound of rap.
>
>While the old gaurd Hsa Hsu, Sach Jenkins, Nelson George,
>Toure, Greg Tate, Kevin Powell, Jeff Chang were urban people
>of color who not only were participating in "the culture", but
>organizing events and writing about it, the new guard and
>their technocrat privilege came in and basically re-wrote the
>rules after the groundwork was laid.
>
>i'm not saying there weren't flaws with the old gate keepers
>of rap writing, but they were intrinsically part of what was
>going on and had accumulated knowledge of rap music that
>wasn't tied to torrent downloads that all of the sudden makes
>some one an expert on UGK or Project Pat after one week.
>
>right now all the major writer are: Noz, Briehan, Soderberg,
>Sean Fennesy, Jeff Weiss, Jayson Greene, etc all white and all
>arrogant cock suckers (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WEISS) who if you
>follow them on tumblr or twitter are dismissve of their own
>followers and circle jerk each other constantly.
>
>it makes me roll my eyes constantly


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