Re: Even if golden age rap wasn't better...

On Sep 3, 4:12 pm, haroon <halqaht...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It was cooler because every six months someone was doing something new.
 The genre's reached its creative peak, and now nothing is new, and
nothing is exciting.  We just yearn for the 'good stuff' we're already
accustomed to that exceeds mediocrity in skill.

Every genre goes through this.  You have an early stage, a golden era,
a plateau, and sometimes a significant drop in public interest. The
only interesting musical genres nowadays are electronic ones, and I'm
not sure how much longer that's going to last.

Another aspect, to me, is the changes in the music industry--loss of
venues to play, declines in the ability to make a living just doing
music across the whole production process...

I'm a firm believer that you don't get to be a really great artist
doing it part-time. Golden age was a good time for a group of acts to
earn a living wage just doing hip-hop (and not deal with clothing ads,
movie careers, managing a record label, engineering their records
themselves, etc). Part of why there's not another Rakim for me now, is
I don't think anyone can afford to be (particularly in their formative
stages), nor can they afford to employ all the other professionals to
carry the weight in aspects they aren't fully versed in.

Peece,
T. Tauri
.

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