“Rap (nor anything else) needs not necessarily be viewed in terms of origins or boundaries, births or deaths. Genre is a construction whose analytical use is primarily economic in nature. The study of genre is largely the study of marketing.”
—
Das Racist’s rebuttal to the SFJ claim about rap being dead.
And this is why Das Racist is my favorite.
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I agree with this, although I’m usually on the other side of genre-based arguments - how does this apply
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