http://urbanmashup.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/hip-hops-mid-life-crisis/ A mashup of digital thinking on creativity, innovation and street culture Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://urbanmashup.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/hip-hops-mid-life-crisis/#comment-431 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:37:12 +0000 http://urbanmashup.wordpress.com/?p=316#comment-431 Hear! Hear!
Hip Hop’s grown older and wiser (along with a generation of listeners and lovers) and it’s reached another juncture in its story. As with all art forms, there’s always the formulaic, shiny slightly simple offspring rubbing up alongside the more niche, in-depth, underground. I like to knock about in the middle somewhere dropping the occasional ‘I remember the four pillars of Hip Hop, when it was dirty and real, and Emcees were actually saying something worth hearing’ into the conversation before I remind myself that everything has to evolve and reinvent itself so it can stay relevant. Right I’m off to listen to some Gang Starr and London Posse whilst I read the Guardian.

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