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...Hip-hop purists forever converse about the counted days of "real hip-hop," with the menacing monster termed Mainstream looming like a promise from the Book of Revelations. Entire careers germinate and blossom from cliche rhymes, jacked beats and videos with big breasts spread across massive mansions; and every so often rapping prophets warn us about the Apocalypse behind the corner of the next edition of Rap City. Against this backdrop, lyrical nerds wonder aloud, who will save...
Yadda yadda yadda. Save us from what exactly? I sometimes--briefly--wonder while rocking my new mix tape (invariably full of apocalyptic caveats). The underground thrives no matter what. But that's the point: It's underground. Those of us who remember the days when even MTV defined hip-hop according to Public Enemy and Tribe feel like there are too few true artists with record deals that actually expose them beyond their area code. Hip-hop dinosaurs everywhere agree: what we need is an independent label to push a slammin' act that just wouldn't flop--even...
...that magnum opus from '96 that gave birth to the duo], Mos's singles and especially Kweli's `Manifesto' I knew that when they made an album it would blow the f-- up." Aight girl, "Fortified Live" still gives me goose epidermis and Kweli's "Manifesto" remains one of hip-hop's all-time classics, but must you curse...
...message seems to drive home though. In every conversation I have about new records this year, my interlocutor has to bring up their adamant love for Black Star's album. What about Outkast's joint? The Source gave it five mics. "So what," they always shrug; "every hype hip-hop album in history gets three and a half mics in The Source...
...group like Black Star so effectively. Thank you, Mos Def and Kweli, for letting us know that "life without thought is just death in disguise;" and that even battle rhymes like "you stoppin us? that's just preposterous like an androgenous mysoginist" can equip us against the extinction we hip-hop fanatics frantically fear...