Statik Selektah Speaks On Akademiks : "When the fukk did we start letting clowns that don't know anything about hip-hop be in this shyt period "!!

[REAL6]

 

[Art Barr]

You can say it's "segregated" but we are talking about 2024, the era where most of the current generation was raised with Lil Wayne, Soldja Boy and Lil B as big influences. This is a generation that spent it's teenage years during the prime of mumble rap. Young Moneys top 3 being the biggest influence is the "Hip Hop" that they know. This generation doesn't know about pop locking and head spins or hardcore rap songs with no cursing. The Hip Hop we were raised on is not the Hip Hop this current generation was raised on. Mr Magic and The Source magazine are dead in this era. Akademiks is the Mr Magic and Source magazine of this current era.

Hiphop culture was never prevalent.

It was misappropriated.
Since it's inception.
From art houses.
Then transistioned as a blockbuster draw from movies to music.


grafitti was misappropriated orig8nally and completely ruined as a mainstream viable component. While the entirety of its pillar and artistic expression was misappropriated.


pbs specials to wild style.
details this as its undercurrent. Yet the next foray in film after wild style that was mainstram.

Beatstreet was a bait and switch.
that visually misappropriated everything it could see fit. With no mainstream resistance. till breaking as a gateway. Fought back against Classically trained misappropriation.
The first rap group in the mairstream was a fraud.
Plus completely welled in the mca way. That an entire new school way of thought emerged. To keep misappropriation from occurring in the future. Yet has been never been allowed in a major label construct or big business. To ever allow any kernel of mores or norms of hiphop culture to be established snd have any prevalence in the mainstream what soever.



Like I said.

Hiphop is the only culture. Where someone gets to come tell a real culture based person. How and what their culture is. While never being apart of.
Or even a historian.
nor knowledgeable about said culture.

@Plankton

Case in point.

What chu write

If you lost at that question.

You not apart of hiphop.

Art Barr

 

[Plankton]

Hiphop culture was never prevalent.

It was misappropriated.
Since it's inception.

Bet.

But what u just said confirms that the version of Hip Hop in the 80's that was "misappropriated" is the same version that most people will die on the hill and say is "real hip hop."

Like for instance. Lets look at an older post from the same poster in this thread/post #61 who I quoted that was stressing "Breaking" is Hip Hop culture

What? Wowwwwww. Beat Street is essential.

Now here he is saying Beat Street is "essential", meanwhile you just stated Beat Street was one of the "misappropriations" of Hip Hop.

So basically the same guy in this thread who is stressing what "Hip Hop culture" is, is basing his knowledge on something u just said was a "misappropriation."

At the end of the day....Akademiks represents the 2020's version of what Hip Hop is supposed to be. You yourself said "Rap music' is "segregated" from hip hop, well then fine, we can call it "rap music" but again, this generation doesn't separate the two like we do. To this generation "rap music and "Hip Hop" are one and the same. Keep in mind, the poster I quoted said Beat Street was "essential" while you said it was "misappropriation" so even 2 people who acknowledge the 80's can have a totally different idea of what "Hip Hop culture" is.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Not surprised.

All of these dudes are lifetime losers, who finally got a look and couldn't help themselves from exposing how pathetic their lives have always been. Whenever you give these bums a platform, you see how trash they are as people, and sooner or later they act up because they're so used to hating themselves and self-sabotaging. This dude needs to be exiled. He should've never gotten this far.

 

[Kenny West]

Hip-Hop culture is

MCing
Breaking
Graffiti
DJing

That other shyt isn't Hip-Hop

DJ Akademiks.

He fits

 

[TripleAgent]

DJ Akademiks.

He fits

Show me a video of him on the wheels. I'll wait