>The Okayplayers that I do have a problem with are the
>aggressive, dissatisfied
>(to the point of being hateful), frustrated, narcissistic
ones
>(there is also a
>passive aggressive/narcissistic variation of this
archetype).
>These bitter, third wave Okayplayers are usually (or
>unusually) frustrated artists,
>producers, journalists and bloggers who have yet to see
their
>work acknowledged in a way they feel is meaningful. Most
of
>these people have no way of nuancing their social 
>selves and are largely unknown outside the message boards
of a
>select number of online communities or the heads of their
>bitter progeny. They're the backseat drivers, the
>armchair quarterbacks, couch potato A&R's who won't
shut the
>fuck up. 
>Their refrains go something like this: "Yall gonna
catch a
>brick", "That's why
>yall went wood", "The Roots are meh",
" I stopped listening to
>them 
>after Illadelph", "Thought is
boring"....yada....
>yada...fucking yada.
>It would be cool if these lames said that shit twenty
times
>and disappeared into 
>the hip hop abyss that is the comment section of rival
sites.
>
>Instead for these fucks, Okayplayer has become some weird
part
>of their 
>"Primal Scream Therapy".  They are drawn here
hour after hour,
>day after day, year after year, to clear their fucked
>conscience. For them, I pray and pray for their downfall.
They
>are the worst elements, lowering the bar of support to the
>point that a regular fan feels comfortable saying
semi-foul
>shit. Yet we should grin and take it right?

brilliant.. makes me want to quit comin' in here.
i'll stay out of spite, being a 12 year Roots supporter.