Rapper says hip-hop 'should be respected like any other art form'
Fri 20 Jun, 2008
its ridiculous to cuss glasto fans for not being open to new types of music - the artists and fans alike are as diverse as you can get. every genre is represented - in fact if you look closely enough there's a rapper playing in the park who was such an important part of the scene in the 80s and 90s, to some real hiphop fans he's a lot more influential (kool keith from the ultramagnetic MCs). the difference here is that jay z is universally considered to be shite, both musically and content-wise. the issue isn't even with hiphop - if an artist was decent, he'd get recognised regardless of genre, with glasto at the fore-front of picking up new emerging talent. look at dizzee rascal, emerged from the east london grime garage scene but embraced by indie kids just as much. jay z makes awful music and is the epitome of the fake gangsta westwood shizzle that everyone with sense hates. who is willing to sleep in a tent, walk around in wellies and crap in a steel chamber for the best part of a week only to be told by some noncey twat that he has ice and bling and spaced out rims. maybe in the fancy mayfair clubs, but that shit dont swing with festival fans. how can he consider himself to be on the same pedestal as radiohead etc? all he does is recycle lyrics over another man's looped, sampled beat.how can he refer to hiphop as new in his argument? its been going for 30 years and has been well established in the charts and mainstream for about 20-odd years.house/dance music is newer and has been embraced by glasto for some time. and anyone who has ever encountered a rap fan knows how closed-minded they are when it comes to music, rap heads are infamous for being unreceptive to every other type of music, for all the rap fans i know, only about 7% ever bother to listen to anything outside the 'urban' umbrellain his own head, he is the greatest artist ever to walk this earth, sadly no amount of booing and shouting on saturday will change his egotistic view.....but we'll have fun bottling his with warm piss!
Mon 23 Jun, 2008
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