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Originally posted by Bamboozled
Okay, maybe it's just me, but I am already SO sick of these movies/TV shows that are supposedly geared towards the so-called "hip-hop" generation. I mean, the media has completely sucked the life out of this supposed culture. Is this what hip-hop has really come to? I understand that it is now a mainstream genre, but dang, can't it at least keep some of the integrity and sub-culturalism that it was founded upon? You might be saying, Bamboozled, what are you griping about now? You're way too sensitive. Why can't mainstream America just enjoy hip-hop for the same reasons that you do? My problem is not the cross over appeal that hip-hop has (well, not really). What bothers me is the inevitable bastardization that ensues once something is exploited soley for capitalistic purposes. And we wonder why people are comfortable having "Ghetto Fabulous" mixers and all that other madness. Please share your thoughts with me on this topic. If you think I'm crazy and just searching for something to beef about, let me know that as well. I just never thought that hip-hop would become as American as apple pie. 
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Bamboozled, I saw a special once on Jack Kerouac and the other Beat poets and the Beat movement in general, and they pretty much said EXACTLY the same thing you are saying. Closer to our time, I'm sure nobody from Seattle thought their anti-mainstream tortured soul tunes would be on Muzak.
It's gotten to the point where I'm afraid to tell people about music or anything else I like, for fear it will end up as the latest Happy Meal toy or a storyline on one of those insipid Disney teen sitcoms.