"hip-Hop wasn't created with the idea that one day heads would be fathers"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

panther's son and atlantic columnist ta-nehisi coates ponders the mysteries of not dyin before you get old

one of the best papers i saw at emp while i was there was hipsterdetritus's, on wu-tang clan's use of quiet storm -- viz their parents' sex music -- as the sample-bed for a lot of tracks

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Given that hip hop has been going for about 30 years, there must be some early hip hop people who are now grandparents, surely. Is this any more relevant to hip hop than many other musics? Clearly when rock 'n' roll or punk or whatever started I don't suppose they thought much of still being around in decades to come. I guess the fact that the lyrics are so much more central to rap may make a significant difference, combined with the nature of those lyrics. Personally and predictably, I'd be less concerned with the explicitness of sexual references than the widespread sexism.