Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interlocutor, the Golden Age advocate, responded that there are still quality rap acts today that wouldn't be able to gain as much exposure as they do if hip hop culture did not garner such global fascination. Good point. If there's anything I would like to see happen in the industry as it stands now, it's that groups like Black Star and The Roots go at least platinum. (By the way, I can't believe Things Fall Apart is only gold! And Black Star has barely hit the 200,000 copies mark....Shame on you, readers and consumers...
Before my boy's obvious old school knowledge, the other cat's golden age stance was silenced. Instead he changed the subject to whether Slick Rick's British accent was authentic...
...such diatribes, I like to just sit, listen and learn. I'm one to side with my boy, and not just for parrochial reasons--I enjoy certain people's company (like Golden Age Man) precisely because they say some outlandish and thus inspiring stuff. But bottom line, I think I've sensed somber days for hip hop much more often than glorious ones: pretty much every time I leaf through rap magazines, or when I think about the fact that the dopest tracks that have dropped in the past couple years will probably never go beyond vinyl singles played...
...hope that I'll get to see a real, full-length KRS show. I don't think KRS would be any lesser or better an emcee if we still lived in the days when everybody listened to same hip hop music and when questions of hip hop's "Golden Age" or demise would be irrelevant. To my boy, myself and probably our Golden Age cohort, KRS is just illy. Who cares if others swallow up the limelight and clutter up the airwaves with garbage? As long as there's enough of us who want quality music, it will be made...
After two years at Harvard I finally have a summer when I can leave my work at work and do what I want when I get home. I want to people watch and work with people my age and go out every weekend. I now know Boston and Cambridge well enough that I know of many things I'd like to explore. I'm glad I'm taking the chance...