Comments on: New Bronx museum may sanitize hip-hop history

By: Nah Right » Blog Archive » Daily Headlines 8-8-06

Nah Right » Blog Archive » Daily Headlines 8-8-06 — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:58:30 +0000

[...] Now the hip hop museum will not exclude ‘gangster rap’ whatever that is. [...]

By: gioforeal

gioforeal — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:57:42 +0000

Wow he called you a lesbian.I think the museum,as such, should really concentrate on Hip hop from it’s inception to 1988.A seperate wing can be dedicated to further developments of HipHop after that time.Have the pioneers head the comittee on such matters.Peace my ninjitsu.

By: god

god — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:48:18 +0000

listen you lesbian, stop trying to speculate. ever heard of the 4 elements? the museum will focus on graffiti, dj’in, breakdancin’, and emceein’. stop complaining and making things complicated. all i know is that you or some “blogger” better not have a say in it. the only skills all of you have is how to spell, sometimes.

By: UnFaded Disciple

UnFaded Disciple — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:24:25 +0000

WHY does everything stereotypically have to come down on “Hip Hop”? I mean don’t they get tired of that bullshit?

Really a museum is pointless, and if they trippin’ b4 the thing is even built you might as well forget it.

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 14:20:45 +0000

lmfao u said erected!

By: thoreauly77

thoreauly77 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:10:53 +0000

and thank you tara for writing something other than gossip — i can get that from mr. crawford.

By: thoreauly77

thoreauly77 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:09:33 +0000

the “hip-hop” museum is made for people that like to watch VH1 do one-hour specials that attempt to explain an entire cultural movement — in other words, people who are not into the culture at all. i think it’s pointless for us to discuss the relevance of the museum except to say that the tourist money it brings into the bronx is going to help the community. aside from that, who really cares about some stagnant white-washed version of the culture we embrace every day?

By: Logic1

Logic1 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:35:07 +0000

# Cptn. Obvious Says:
August 4th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

Instead of asking what should go in the “hip hop museum”. Shouldn’t the real question be why the hell do we even need a hip hop museum? Hip hop stopped being relevant as a cultural phenomenon back in the mid 90’s. Do we really need an entire museum dedicated to something that was only of any value for 20 years or so? Whats next? A boyband museum?
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Am I the only one who thinks that was an insanely ignorant comment?

And for those who keep bitching that post-mid-nineties Hip Hop is irrelevant, what about Common, Lupe Fiasco, Jay Dilla (RIP), Eminem to name just a few…??

By: DJ Main Event

DJ Main Event — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:39:07 +0000

hmmmm… its a good idea in theory but its a perspective thing as to what ‘real hip-hop’ is. kinda like asking what you think God really looks like. not that THIS is a big ‘god’-like issue but you get what i mean.

By: Lindemann

Lindemann — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:23:50 +0000

Bol will be donating $4.67 and a Twinkie towards the construction of the H.L. Mencken wing.

Museums exist to sanitize history, BTW. Apparently the powers that be have decided that it would be useful to co-opt and devitalize the narratives that drove hip-hop, so that’s what’ll happen. I don’t know exactly how this will be accomplished, but I’m sure it will. Hopefully they’ll at least manage to pick up some cool gear to showcase.

By: big rizz

big rizz — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:04:36 +0000

Who are we to say what real hip hop is? Everyone will have a different opinion on that. I for one think all aspects should be allowed in. Even snap music. It is stil music and some of it is meant to have a good time and take the listener away from the bullshit that is in our lives…..Whatever happened to freedom of speach and expression?

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:17:02 +0000

They shouldn’t editorialize, or criticize. (i’m dreaming, i know).. They should just break it down chronologically, and then have further categories based on what the rappers’ content should be, and include the grey area rappers. (that’s not a CA reference, by grey area I mean MCs that delve into different topics, the “bling” and the books, na mean?)

By: Cptn. Obvious

Cptn. Obvious — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:54:39 +0000

Instead of asking what should go in the “hip hop museum”. Shouldn’t the real question be why the hell do we even need a hip hop museum? Hip hop stopped being relevant as a cultural phenomenon back in the mid 90′s. Do we really need an entire museum dedicated to something that was only of any value for 20 years or so? Whats next? A boyband museum?

By: G Off

G Off — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:51:27 +0000

They wouldn’t build a museum about history and forget to include the wars. This is revisionalist bullshit if it goes down.

By: lost one

lost one — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:48:14 +0000

If Tara is Meg, Bol is Stewie and DJ Drama Chris.

By: Darryl Williams

Darryl Williams — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:07:50 +0000

That’s beyond stupidity. How can you ignore all of the Hip-Hop that isn’t the early, bad flow, horrendous lyricism of the early days.
Hip-Hop has grown into an excepted music genre, why would you ignore that? Not to mention, lyricism has grown into a skill of it’s own, far surpassing the barely listenable 70′s MC.
If there gonna make a Hip-Hop Museum, it should go from KRS-One to Talib Kweli, DJ Kool Herc to DJ Premier, Vanilla Ice to Nelly. Everything should be included.

By: Jay w

Jay w — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:06:11 +0000

(Yawn.) Still pretty damn dry. At least you kinda came through with some content this time.

By: Boner Jams 03

Boner Jams 03 — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:03:46 +0000

tara, if the xxlmag bloggers where the cast of family guy, u would be meg…

By: DJ Lucky Luke

DJ Lucky Luke — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:43:19 +0000

Damn… I feel like lyrically offing every last rapper who’s shitted on the real hip-hop…but then I might be excluded from the damn museum myself, so call it a Catch-22.

IMO, the museum should only be about the founders of hip-hop–the graffiti artists, the B-Boys, the DJ, and the real rhyme-spitters. A lot of snappers and shoulder-leaners don’t even know about the Puerto Rican kids that were at the forefront of the hip-hop game, right alongside the blacks. I guess the museum should only celebrate the era up until about 1997… Damn I hate what they did to my music…

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