Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip Hop Archive

Re:Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip Hop Archive by realbarack on Thursday December 11, 2014 @09:26AM (#8734837)

"There aren't many forms of music I cannot listen to, but Hip Hop is one of them."

No beef, that's an opinion.

"Can't really call it music to be honest...mindless unintelligible lyrics..."

That's wrong and silly at best, closer to closet racism/classism at worst.

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Re:Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip Hop Archive by timboslice on Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:16AM (#8735145)

>closer to closet racism/classism at worst

I wouldn't go that far, but mindless and unintelligible? Have you been exposed to the variety of hip hop that is out there?

Aesop Rock, Action Bronson, Deltron 3030/Del the Funkee Homosapien etc etc

Here is an interesting post that classifies hip hop artists based on their vocabulary and word usage:

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