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What's weird about what Rage says - *apart* from the way in which it appears to have rolled off the Guardian-review template Lyra so accurately describes, and which merits a whole thread of it's own (and they'll *never* start saying it in reverse, Lyra, because the whole point is that it's a form of revisionism that positions all other hip-hop except the individual artist or small group of artists being lauded as violent, mysoginistic, etc, no matter how blatant the historical/contextual inaccuracies) - and *apart* from the bizarre idea that the "underground" is *less* misogynistic than the mainstream, when it seems reasonably self-evident to this boy that it's more so - is the fact that 2002 has seemed a really quite year for the so-called underground. What has there been that's really made an impact - the El-P album is ace, but hasn't really got much play as far as I can tell; UK hip-hop's still doing well, but the American underground? Tell me what I'm missing - as far as I can see this has been the year of shamelessly melodic and pop/R&B-orientated, but brilliantly unique hip-hop: 'Addictive', 'Without Me', 'Work It', the Neptunes...
As express, says, you could have made that case a few years ago - the glory days of Rawkus - but of course there was a huge irony there: sounds from the underground, cash from Rupert Murdoch... |
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