Weiss isn't that much better. He features some good writers on his site (Mobb Deen) in particular and seems like a nice guy, but other than that, his writing is a total mess. He's been writing about Low End Theory for 3 years or so (before that he was bigging up Slaughterhouse) and has yet to find an interesting angle. His showcases are in Silver Lake (that epicenter of hip hop) and usually involve a rapper whose gotten tons of blog praise months prior(Exquire, Gibbs) sandwiched between two middling indie rock/dubstep acts. Dude also went to Beverly High so you might want to lose your mental image of him walking thought Leimert Park looking for the next Freestyle Fellowship.

Your deification of Nelson George is also a bit absurd. Hip Hop America is a bunch of self-aggrandizing stories masquerading as journalism/reportage.

The Ego Trip brain trust are national treasures so I'm not quite sure why you think I'm shitting on them. You came into this post with a half-baked agenda as it shows.



>douchbaggery of Fennesy or Soderberg. that arrogance you may
>feel from Nelson and others comes from you know creating an
>alternative to the 2nd wave of rap journalism that began in
>the early 90s and basically being the old guys now, but
>whatever. it's typical of likkle youth to shit on the older
>headz who opened rodes for rap and rap writing when every one
>else ghetto-ized the work