Re: BBV, best rap song of all time?
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i think the distinction is this:
hip hop culture
rap music.
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Yeah I know what he was getting at. But basically the whole concept of a hip hop culture is pretty absurd as well. It was a term coined by Afrika Bambatta that was largely largely viewed as retarded for over a decade, until corporations starting tapping into this idea of an artificial pseudo-culture in order to sell people shoes and hamburgers and whatever else. Oh yeah, and so people can call themselves 'hip hop historian's and find a niche to make a dollar. Culture isn't something you artificially construct, it organically develops and manifests itself.
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while i dont think its the authority, have you read Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop?
I think it addresses the idea of a culture being created. If anything, its american culture, just as much as jazz is part of american culture.
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I know the book you talk about but haven't read it. Does he agree or disagree with me?
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