Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of definition is one of the many topics that both kept this past Saturday afternoon's conference envigorating and problematic. Considerations had both a temporal and an essential feel: can overproduced music still retain an artistic impetus, what is hip hop without dancing, is there an establishment to battle against, do women have a greater place in the future of the music making? Many of these issues challenged the traditional fourpart definition of hip hop--and seem to demand some sort of line drawing. It is for this reason that discussions attempting to further define hip-hop...
...there are so many aspects of the cultural movement, the perpetuation may simply be the emphatic: I am hip hop. To excel in the industry, to perform well, to be critical--all are challenges to the gloomy view of hip hop's future. KRS-One has collaborated with Puffy, he has performed with Zoch de la Rocha from Rage Against the Machine, he encourages material and commercial success as well. He begins I Got Next with the lines "it's not a novelty, you can love your neighbor, without loving poverty...
...hop exist as a new institution which plays by the rules of capitalism? Rather than draw rhetorical lines in the sand, much of all the "rap sessions" highlighted agency in the industry. yet, in a capitalist system, agency really rests on consumers--music won't sell that the masses won't purchase. To consider this one aspect of an amplification of audience is to consider how the musical genre may be subject to a dilution of substance through absorption by this very capitalist culture...
...anti-establishment, one needs an establishment. The music industry and American culture "discovers" the margins and transforms the avant garde into a marketable product. There must be a reconciliation between preserving core values and expanding one's marketablity. The danger is whether hip hop can still be a critique of culture, or whether it will be consumed by culture...
...fact it may be both. Talib Kweli in "Manifesto" asks, "all the real MC's can meet me outside, so we can decide how we gonna change the tide." Black Star certainly acknowledge the challenge of hip hop--elsewhere, Kweli rhymes "an A&R told me that I use too many catchphrases, true I'm trying to catch all my people in all different stages, all different phases...