"srsly poptimists need 1x CRASH COURSE in contemporary hip-hop"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

(That's the Lex speaking)

1. Do we? Or "Do you?" I should say, since we're a loose clumping of individuals innit.

2. GO ON THEN! What's the best hip-hop you've heard this year?

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[martinv.livejournal.com]

Also, yeah MIA is a rapper, and I love her, but don't we think there's something in the fact that her (tiny) fan base is almost entirely indie kids, and that she barely figures in actual hip-hop circles?

Well, there might be, but what exactly?

There might be a sense in which MIA's music has a better 'fit' with the taste of 'indie kids' but that doesn't imply a qualitative inferiority (or indeed superiority.) Nor does having a smaller fanbase...

On another note, I suspect I probably haven't really heard enough big US male rappers' stuff to comment properly. There's also stuff like Wu-Tang which obviously fits my criteria (especially ODB.) So I was, as I kinda guessed, talking rubbish really.