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Replying to haters
🕑 Added 2024-03-18 19:47:39 +0000 UTCSometimes I write responses to haters and then don’t post them cuz it’s not worth it.
Here is what I wrote to someone who said I had a pathological disease endemic to my status as an academic because I claim that Hip-hop serves as a voice of the voiceless. Useless to respond, but here is what I wrote. Call me cringe, will you!
“Hip-Hop history goes back more than 50 years. From its birth in the South Bronx, to Compton, to Sarcelles, to Croydon to all the impoverished areas all over the world, the art has always served to give voice to those who are largely ignored/marginalized in society. That is simply the history of this particular art form. To misunderstand that is your right, but please don’t confuse misreading history as some kind of virtue or sign of lucidity.
TLDR: these are facts and facts don’t care about your feelings.”
Comments
Professor Skye's Record Review
True, that is one reason why I don't respond. It is so cliche but true that one bad comment sticks with you when 100 good ones may not. Stupid imposter syndrome!
Thomas Boss
for every troll there are 100 AVAAs!!!
Abstract Pop
A very seldomly talked about aspect pertaining to the rise of hip-hop is poor schools having underfunded music programs (even myself going to Atlanta public schools). this poor academic funding leading to a more minimalist genre as far as instruments used for production of the records. Literally signaling a direct correlation between improvised school systems/communities and the musicians that came out of them TLDR (no matter what perspective you take hip hop is a voice for the voiceless)
