While I respect Kid Cudis opinion that materialism and braggadocio is holding back our culture, it pains me somewhat to partially disagree. Sure, I can attest to music being an art form that has a richly pronounced influence with its message, and that directly assigns a certain responsibility to its messenger. In fact, there’s an entire underground and conscious hip hop community that supports this view. Yet, I will still insist that this is no reason to condemn the flip side. Hip Hop needs party music, it needs club music, and it needs songs that give you a glimpse of what you can achieve. We’re in a capitalist world, and Kid Cudi is very wrong to think that ridding Hip Hop of its materialism would make the culture any more valuable than it is. Click the link below to read why TIYC contributor Achilles thinks Cudis recent comments about hip-hop are wrong: thisisyourconscience/2014/03/kid-cudi-is-wrong-for-denouncing-braggadocio-rap/
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:19:42 +0000
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