> before you go off generalizing hip hop as "macho nihilism" try to listen
> something other than the top 40 marketed crap that seems to encompass your
> worldview of the genre. as a starter i suggest you pick up some arrested
> development, blackalicious, or jurassic 5
Amen. May I also suggest anything by Dead Prez, and Sarah Jones's recording of her poem "Your Revolution (will not happen between these thighs)"--and the entire Boogie Down Productions collection? And there is also a compilation, "No More Prisons," released by Raptivism Records, that is quite simply the best hip hop I have ever heard.
There is, of course much more. Most conscious hip hop actually offers an on-point criticism of the "macho-gangster-hit-my-bitches" hip pop.
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