No Al, I said it was the most important since Jazz or something.
And I meant in terms of how it reconfigured what music was and how it was made. That is absolutely not the same as believing it to be superior to other genres. There are loads of electronica acts which do similar things with form and construction of music, and loads of post-rock bands who do that too. But hip hop has had an indelible impact on western culture.

And I also believe that hip hop is analogous to punk in how it did that, being pretty much a DIY genre which came up from clubs and rewrote the rules of the time. Hip hop is mainly embedded in the mainstream now, just as jazz is the preserve of a very different group of people than when it started out.

I love hardcore just as much as hip hop; and country just as much as house. They are all culturally important in their own ways, and none is superior to any others.

What exactly do you get out of being such a prick online anyway? And re. your dad, if he has indeed just died, then my sympathies to you and your family.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 2 Jul 2012, 16:27, Reply)