The blogsphere has been awashed in the past month with commentary on Greg Tate’s piece in the Village Voice on Hip Hop turning 30. Tate asserted in the essay that hip hop had been overrun by corporate interest and this interference cause the culture to lose all of its’ sociological impact. Most initial commentary on the essay congratulated Tate on supposedly exposing the disease within the hip hop community. However, shortly after the article appeared and a certain segment of the blogshpere harnessed their chance to pat Tate on the back, a strong backlash formed against the assertions of Tate and his ilk. These sociological orientated commentators imply that hip hop failed in living up to its sociological potential.
A certain segment of the blogsphere raised the question of whether Tate and his praise choir were merely expressing sour grapes over their time in Hip Hop being over. This segment of the blogsphere, led to the forefront by Hashim at Hip Hop Blogs, argued that a generational gulf separated the new school of hip hop fans and commentators. Hashim went so far as to call Tate old in his response to the article. The crutch of the argument seem to lie in that older hip hop fans hold unrealistic expectation for hip hop and that older critics apply too much sociological hopes for Hip Hop developing into a political force for the black community. Simply put, this set of commentators want a return to focusing on rhyme, rhythm, and beats within hip hop instead of vain sociological aspirations. For simplicity’s sake, I will tag these commentators as the ‘skill’ set because there focus is on the skills that an artist possess.
Amid this cacophony of opinions, I decided that both sides of the debate missed the point. While Hip Hop, and music in general, offer many profound sociological observations that the ‘skills’ obsessed tribe would care to admit, the more academic crowd misses the point in their somewhat when they presume MC’s and Hip Hop groups should address social issues a’la Public Enemy or other 90’s rap groups.
Hip hop, whether of the mainstream, underground, conscious, or whatever variety, comments on social conditions through it’s very existence; the necessity for Hip Hop acts to comment on social problems in moot, because the music itself reflect social conditions. The academics’ approach assumes that songs are created within a social vacuum.
I could venture that the academics in which Tate appeals would condemn crunk, the regional variant of rap popular in the South and
The ‘skills’ crowd might embrace crunk purely on its’ sonic brashness, if they could ignore it deficit lyrical prowess. However, any attempt to analyze crunk contribution to society would seem irreverent to the ‘skills’ crowd, which slights the sub-genre itself. But the academics would also shun the sub-genre and any sociological impact it might have or reveal because of crunk MC’s limited range of topics and a perception that crunk MC’s delivery and cadence is simple.
Crunk sociological perspective is an analysis of how the raucous, synthesized beats and menacing yelps and grunts of the MC manifest the hopelessness of the listeners and the social conditions that crunk expresses. By reorienting the analysis towards an investigation of styles rather than a set of expectations, one could develop a comfort zone in the direction that Hip Hop is taking.
Crunk seemingly embodies an aggressive, joyless, doom ridden narcissism within the urban environment of the South, especially
Check out these websites to get more insite into the issue.
http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000729.html
http://www.hiphop-blogs.com/hiphop/2005/01/steven_samuel_o.html
http://www.cantstopwontstop.com/blog/2005/01/hip-hop-is-dead.cfm#c110499624894279881
http://www.hiphop-blogs.com/hiphop/2004/12/yes_virginia_hi.html
http://www.hiphop-blogs.com/hiphop/2005/01/greg_tate_is_an.html
http://villagevoice.com/news/0501,tate,59766,2.html
http://www.o-dub.com/weblog/2005_01_01_archive.html
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