Hipster-Hop

March 20th, 2008

Nahright.com has a pretty topical argument going on where people are arguing over hipster rap. (fyi: it’s a new sub-genre of hip-hop where people basically wear tighter pants). So anyway, what’s the deal with this? In the age of the internet it seems kinda ridiculous to try and come up with genres and sub-genres because everything is getting mashed together anyway, and it almost seems like people are labelling certain artists with the hipster tag just to hate on them. I don’t get it, are people afraid they will be tricked into liking music that they feel shouldn’t be enjoyed? And if you really don’t like it then wouldn’t that be impossible anyway?

Personally, I don’t care what anyone wears or what they look like, it’s like Tru-Paz says, “if the music’s tight you’re all right.” So give it up already with labels and just listen to what you want (unless it’s “screamo”, that term makes me laugh for some reason) And if liking The Cool Kids makes me a hipster … well … no, I’’m still not a hipster.

Posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm by Matt Wells and is filed under Just For Fun.

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2 Responses to “Hipster-Hop”

  1. Hipster rap in an abomination

    By Senester on March 21, 2008 at 3:15 am |

  2. I didn’t know people were terming groups such as The Cool Kids or even Kid Sister as “hipster-hop” (I guess I’m out of the loop of things, lol). To me, they’re just trying to bring back the meaning to hip hop because mainstream hip hop/rap today is garbage. Granted there’s a lot of catchy stuff out there, but very few mainstream artists have the substance and quality that used to define the genre.

    I actually interviewed an upcoming hip hop band known as True 2 Life (by definition, I suppose you could call them “hipster-hop”). We had an awesome discussion about this new “scene” that has been surfacing, and I asked them how they felt about being classified in such a genre. It’s a pretty good read and goes along with this whole “debate”: http://almostalist.com

    By April on March 22, 2008 at 9:05 pm |

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