Dope post from The Full Clip. Bravo
The truth is a mutually beneficial relationship has been built between hip-hop blogs and up-coming artists. The artists produce quickly and ship to the blogs, which have to produce content equally as fast to satisfy the appetite of obsessive fans with growingly shortened attention spans. It works something like popular news channels: there is such a tremendous need to provide new stories and new dialogue 24-7 that often the information provided is shabby, short, and empty. This leads to an uninformed audience accepting of whatever whatever.
While this moment is tumultuous for the music business (the death of record labels and the birth of god knows what), it is no excuse to add to the void with the praise of mediocrity. For these 10 guys to be the future of hip-hop is an anomaly that needs questioning.
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Tags: Blogging has destroyed hip hop in 2009, The 10 Freshman, The Full Clip, XXL
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COUNTER BLOG! group blogs esp. — having many authors will keep the wheels churning so there is no burnout in battling mediocrity and crap now promoted via blogs.
I concur. But this whole thing was preceded by the exponential growth of the mixtape market. It served as a vehicle of visibility for new artists, but at the same time it created the climate for unfounded hype. There was a panel discussion about the relationship between blogs and hip-hop this past weekend during CMJ…but alas I didn’t make it. Kinda regret it.
BTW…why is Charles Hamilton such the blogger’s darling? I don’t get why he’s on the cover or XXL and not U-N-I. B.O.B. is kinda dope. Caught his CMJ show, so I feel he’s definitely one to watch for. As far as Wale…I’m not really feelin’ him, but I always got love for my city.