Carpetbaggeurings

[HarveyCanal]

I'm just playing devil's advocate at this point, but isn't this exactly what you've been doing in selectively claiming Bay/Houston/NOLA/Blowed, but dismissing certain developments in those scenes (The Fix, Busdriver, Hacky Sack Competitions) if they don't fit your own narrow vision of what that culture entails. The only difference between you and the culture vultures you so despise is that you have had the circumstances and resources to actually live in these places rather than merely learn about them through music and hand me down accounts.

Selective claiming? If so, selections based on the circumstance of life...not fashion. I had lived in NOLA, LA, and Houston as a kid. Y'all want to act like I moved to these places just to get up close to their rap scenes. Even when I moved to the Bay as an adult, it was for the ocean, proximity to Hawaii, camping, and oh yeah...my wife's schooling long before it had to do with anything rap related. That marauding psychophantic shit y'all try to peg me with is some straight projection on some of y'all's part.

And your entire thesis fails to account for the natural cross pollination of music. Texas and Los Angeles hip hop has been intermingling for the greater part of the past 20 years. Ask DOC or 3-2 or your boys Menace Clan.

FAKE FINDS ALERT!!!

Why then do you paint a 2002 Dr. Dre/Devin The Dude collab as an inauthentic representation of either sound and not a natural extension of these interactions?

It's perfectly authentic. It's just not Devin's best work by any stretch of the imagination, and thus an easy target for clowning.

Here in DC artists like Devin, Z-Ro, Face, etc. are hugely popular and have been for many years (amongst a population who most likely have never read Kelefah Sennah or Tom Breihan, I might add). Are these fans culture vultures because they grew up on Odd Squad but are probably unaware of and disinterested in K-Rino? Or are their tastes merely limited by the social and economic forces that prevent them from whimsically traveling from city to city to engage every rap community that fits their fancy?

Those DC dudes aren't on the internet or in the New York Times trying define Houston rap, are they? And if they were, at least they'd be a step up from many of the jokers who've been doing it lately.

 

[faux_rillz]

I'm just playing devil's advocate at this point, but isn't this exactly what you've been doing in selectively claiming Bay/Houston/NOLA/Blowed, but dismissing certain developments in those scenes (The Fix, Busdriver, Hacky Sack Competitions) if they don't fit your own narrow vision of what that culture entails. The only difference between you and the culture vultures you so despise is that you have had the circumstances and resources to actually live in these places rather than merely learn about them through music and hand me down accounts.

That marauding psychophantic shit y'all try to peg me with is some straight projection on some of y'all's part.

Please try again... in English.

 

[noz]

you can't peg me with marauding psychophantic projections!