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Originally Posted by StarFish106
Q: Why do you think it happened?
A: I think there are a myriad of reasons. First, there's a belief in the generation gap. Second is the exploitation of kids. When you're exploiting people, and exploiting their sexuality, you have to find new ways to continue to do that...
The third thing is the traditional American relationship with the minstrel show. Black people acting the fool. Always, there's some money to be made off of that. It's comfortable to the national psyche. And also black people's enjoyment of that - for taking what is serious and reducing it to entertainment, which is the same thing that happened with religious music. And it starts with the whole belief in youth music, and the separation of the 14-year-old from their parents."
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This is a provocative thought, hip hop as modern minstrelsy. I hadn't thought of it that way before.
I think that hip hop could be art, but at this point it has become stagnant--this is particularly the case with mainstream stuff that we hear on the radio. Can art emerge from the static, I don't know?