Word: doping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William Stephenson: A brother can't drive a Lexus without pushing dope? Supposing he hit the Lotto number...
...urban centers of the world? When the culture's audience and participants grow, so does the culture's production of nonsense in order to satisfy the new buyers who never knew that Stetsasonic predates The Roots' hip hop band idea, or that the Jungle Brothers were once dope. The culture is only hurt by fans who get schooled about the music by the simplistic sampling techniques of Puffy and the Trackmasters...
Take deejay battles. Turntablists stand before two Technics and a mixer to vie against their opponents by cutting samples, juggling beats and hyping up the crowd with antics like scratching as they give their opponents the finger. Standing in a crowd before such a spectacle is especially dope because everyone else around you shares your aesthetic sensibilities. It's as if you hear echoes of your own thoughts: "Yo that shit is RIDICULOUS...
...some of his own instrumentals, beat-boxing and rhyming into the deejay mic at times to get everybody amped. The Diabolical has enough classics with thumping beats and memorable flows to satisfy any hip hop crowd. Much later, the Blastmaster KRS stepped to the mic to deliver a dope though way too short show. He kicked no more than a verse of each of about ten or 12 joints, all with the BDP and KRS beats and rhymes we love--and get to love even more when The MC makes us jump and pump fists to them...
...face of a seemingly insurmountable set of Mainstream aesthetics, thereby occasioning a "death of hip hop." I say, in the meantime, let's all go to as many battles and open mics and, yes, shows, as possible, with as many people as possible, so as to have as dope a time as possible for as long as possible. Then the "Golden Age" of hip hop will be as it has been for me: the culture's entire life span, which...