YoY. throught I'd prublish my dissertation here. It's a social critique of civilights movement and the formation of hiphop. I learnt alot from it. Truth seems to be that you get played if you do played if you dont. As musicians we need to keep changing it up quicker than it can be bagged, tagged and sold back to us.
It kinda opens up the debate of how and how much. Take Odd future. They run around bleeding and skating like Jackass, Raping split personaltys like M&M and talk bout pulling guns. But they seem like the kinda kids you could smoke with and not get beat-up or ignored. Thats probably enough to scare record labels into bagging then as we speak. Not just in the manner they transparently(and jokingly I may add) do themselves but also to split them from a universal persection of rappers. They aint conscious rap that's for sure. They come inline with the 'New West' of hiphop but that's just a genre. Maybe that's enough. My guess is they'll use the skate thing maybe even imply that there is a class difference.
Gangster rap makes to much money to be complicated by diversification. Ofwgkta will make money on the back of being underground until they aint then 'purist' hiphop heads will disown them and say they sold out. Circle of life right.
Anyhow what you think?
Paper
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13661140/BA%20production%201%20sem/Dissertation/A%20Socially%20Developmental%20Approach%20to%20Hip%20Hop%20.doc
Bib
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13661140/BA%20production%201%20sem/Dissertation/Bibliography.doc
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