It is a disgrace
to submit to the will of the herd mentality within Hip Hop. It is
a disgrace
to submit to the will of the smaller herds and their smaller
mentalities within Hip Hop. The modes of expression that are
forbidden within this music culture are hereby opened to those with the
daring
to risk self expression.
There is nothing within the musical culture of Hip Hop that still
deserves respect. There is no concept, moral prohibition, line of
activity or album that currently inspires the respect once earned
within the genre. Any opinion based merely on the emotional
outpouring of it's adherents is knocked flat. Hip Hop is now an
empty shell of a formerly interesting and potent mode of musical
expression. It is now dead like disco
was when Hip Hop arose from within it.
The reverence with which the philosophers and consumers of Hip Hop
treat the memory of its originators is a falsification of the dead
nature of these artists and works. The blatant reality is that
these artists and works are not relevant to
the new art which is being produced, and which has yet to be
produced. Reverence is the measure of the integrity of a Member of the Hip Hop
Community by other members and posing
members. It is precisely this reverence and sense of
integrity, submission, and stylistic poverty among midgets which is
worthy of being attacked.
Within the narrow context of a dead form of musical expression, thepriests and
philosophers must be ridiculed above all. The tendency to
act as priest, philosopher or witch doctor is the tendency for a
decadent few herd dogs to determine for all others the scope of
self-expression, restricting it to their own degree of psychological or
physical exhaustion
as artists, or their own intellectual limitation.
How slavish and bureaucratic it is to assert control over the musical
expression of others, based solely on fear of competition, or challenge
to dearly held beliefs, or a general destruction of those lax artists
and artworks commonly held to be "good." Art is not a socialist
democracy. Art is war. Art
is a battle of wills. No one should feel safe around art.
The principles of all incomplete systems are inevitably violated.
It is an unavoidable recurring theme. Hip Hop as a musical and
mathematical polynomial equation is necessarily VARIABLE, incomplete,
inconsistent, and uncertain. It shall be
violated. When it is not, it sucks. The
fact that much of this reasoning is lost on the average Hip Hopper, and
that he constantly redraws the line more closely is further
proof. The proof would be nicer if put to music. Such music
would be produced by muscians of a greater stripe than the current
supply.
