inspiration : http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2002/11/20/hip_hop/index.html
note : if you don't subscribe to salon, do. otherwise your doomed to a life of ineptitude and cultural illiteracy.
so. i read this article. well, before that i was thinking about how odd it is that i can idolize musicians such as conner oberst and also chuck d. or is it odd? hip-hop is mainstream, in a way that. fuck it, this isn't going anywhere. i just hope that people stop thinking it's weird for rich white kids to like public enemy and for poor black kids to like radiohead. i like to think that on some level artistic and cultural heroes create things that defy racial boundaries.
anyway, go read the article. stanford professors write better than i do.
Posted by rett at November 20, 2002 12:43 AM