Peter Rosenberg
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I give Jordan Tower and Q a pass...they at least provide and/or create content, albeit via rap...i'm talking about dudes with clearly more ambiguous existences.Jordan Tower
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Peter USED to be, for sure...now he's doing the whole sports/radio thing. I get it.Peter Rosenberg
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Yeah true.I give Jordan Tower and Q a pass...they at least provide and/or create content, albeit via rap...i'm talking about dudes with clearly more ambiguous existences.
Yeah, go in on all of them.
Pretty much anybody that's using hip-hop culture as a means to an end who makes it blatantly obvious they dont' care about the culture. They just want a buck.
This includes
bloggers (and going back to what @SirBiatch said, alot of these types came through from....you guessed it...BLOGGING. They really had no connection to the culture other than as casual listeneres, but because they had connections and internet platforms they could connect to more people than others connected in the industry from a ground up level. People like Byron Crawford, Jaywan, fukk it, Julia Beverly, Miss Info, Nessa, all of them. And I remember around 2004-2006 the direction of hip-hopo changed for the worse around this time because alot of these bloggers started getting positions at magazines like Complex, XXL, Vibe, getting label positions and actually changing the direction of hip-hop. Lots of white people and asians that seem to present this outsider perspective of hip-ho and rap and black culture to mainstream audiences....very few black people in comparison were making those moves except for a choice few).
At this point if you aint' a DJ or a Rapper...you ain't hip-hop to me at all!
if you see someone talking about branding...RUN AWAYwe don't have any tastemakers in hip hop anymore.
Hip hop is a beautiful culture, but it's done. All the smart, passionate people got pushed out. And it didn't happen overnight. Look at the pushback I get on The Coli aloneand this is just fukkery/nothing deep. When you have dollars and lives at stake....
The amount of swagless, non-rhythm-having muhfukkas in this hip hop shyt is mindblowing. Not just cacs. I live in Toronto. Some of the Black folk who are working behind the scenes trying to push a certain artist got me like![]()
Social Media gave birth to alot of em. But aye man, get ya hustle on.![]()
Kenny Burns?![]()
Akademiks?![]()
Video models and instagram thots are in this too.
People like Jenna Shea, Kat Stacks, Amber Rose, Mellyssa Ford, Superhead. They don't rap. they don't make beats. They just look good and rap nikkas wanna fukk em so they give that V-card up...next thing you know? They're doing an interview with the Breakfast Club with Charlemagne for what?
people like Martin Skhreli are here too.
Hip-hop has sadly become a frree for all where everybody who wants in can do so using as little means as possible.
While this is true, this does not negate the fact that they are leeches and wannabes in hip-hop like Skhreli.These women are just beautiful and Beauty has afforded women fame and money since the beginning of time.