Message from discussion BackPackers HATE Hip-Hop - Screw them

From: Delirium <madd...@home.com>
Subject: Re: BackPackers HATE Hip-Hop - Screw them
Date: 1999/12/19
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Nah he's not Goldenchild.  Goldenchild is different from your
anti-backpacker or whatever the fuck you wanna call it.  He has an open
mind.  He's heard the underground hip-hop but he likes jay-z and shit
like that more.  That's cool.  That's his opinion.  At least he's tried
it out.  This kid said he got dissed because he didn't know the
underground artists or something to that effect.  Why don't you give it
a listen and see if you like it then?  I agree, some people might come
on too strong with their love for the underground.  But I like it better
than DMX, Ja-Rule, and all the other shit you mentioned.  By the way,
what the hell is pre-illmatic nas? 

meenan wrote:
> 
> yo...
> some underground kid must have really flamed your tastes to merit such a
> long display of tears.  I only really have one question for you, son...do
> you think before you write?  you begin with  "backpackers (a term younare
> admittedly newly familiar with, and only 'seems' appropriate...do your
> homework) hate hip-hop--screw them.  Then, after you bitch about being
> 'hated on' by cats, you say you 'have no problem with backpackers..I have
> friends who...'--which is it?  Screw 'em or no problem?  It can't be both
> simultaneously.
> yo, it's great if you're into 'thug rap.'  Personally, I think most of
> it's garbage.  But, don't you think you generalizing (yes, I read that you
> claimed you 'weren't' but you were) a group of people by saying they
> 'hate' hip-hop is the same as them flaming you for your tastes?
> Funny you should mention GoldenChild...I have the sneaking suspicion that
> you are he...but whatever.  You like the 'finer things'?  Great.
> BUT...you, not unlike many of the cats for whom you voice support, write
> others off as 'haters,' simply because they voice their opinions on what
> hip-hop is all about.
> And as for them being "white males with the exception of a few
> 'minorities'?"  Is that an issue?  Furthermore...is it true?  Doubtful.
> Hip-hop is a universal medium.  There's rich white boys who are into thug
> shit, underground shit, pop shit, etc.  As is the case for all races and
> genres.
> I think you might be a lil misinformed, and maybve a lil unsure of what
> you actually like, let alone what you think of others' tastes.
> --meenan
> 
> "There's more to this than just payin the rent...if you're ridin on this
> bump you need to ride it till the end."  --Slug
> 
> "I'm so ahead of my time, when i talk there's a seven second delay"
> --wordsworth