Letters to the Editor
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Who's "Fall Out Boy"..
(Get off my lawn you damn kids!)..
Gimme a break. People have been proclaiming the death of Hip Hop since 1986. It will, like every other new form of entertainment embraced by the 13-30 demographic (and more importantly, still loved by the now car, home and investments buying 30-50 set) be co-opted, adulterated and burlesqued by the very same institutions Hip Hop set out to liberate art from in the first place.
Is Hip-Hop dead? Nonsense. Is "rap" dead? Not as long as Hennessey or Grey Goose have enough money to pay off young performers who don't know any better. I think if you asked Common or Kanye or Adam Yauch or John Legend or Mos Def if Hip Hop was dead they would look at you like a crazy person.
Ask Keith Jarrett if jazz is dead, or Tchaikovsky if Classical were dead (or Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Loren Maazel or the Kronos Quartet, to name some people who are, unlike brother Tchaikovsy are very much alive).
Hip hop is hear to stay.
PS - if more American's danced, maybe we'd spend less time at war. And we'd be in better shape. Think about that!