In today’s episode of Famous People’s Favorite Excuses, Q-Tip joins the army of MCs indirectly calling for a moratorium on technological advancements. According to the legendary Tip, Internets and other technologies like the comment box should be held responsible for hip-hop’s demise.
Here’s what Tip said in the August issue of Spin magazine:
“I think it’s a shame, because everyone becomes a critic. You see something at the bottom of everything that says, “What’s your comment?” And everyone has to offer their opinion and comment… To me, that drains the art. All of a sudden, the imagination just passes. Whereas predating the internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it’s sensory overload.”
Tip probably has a point, but I won’t believe it until Soulja Boy validates this shit. Let me explain. Soulja Boy is the only rapper worth listening to these days. If you’ve been paying attention you may have noticed that all his statements and predictions have been on point lately.
For instance, Soulja Boy once said Ice-T’s career was over. No one believed him until pictures of Ice attempting to retrieve fragments of his career from a trash can surfaced on the web.
Then Soulja Boy said he was the hottest MC in the game. And what happened afterward? 50 Cent embraced him. Kanye anointed him the 2nd coming of Nas.
So, I call bullshit on Q-Tip’s claim that technology killed hip-hop, unless Soulja Boy comes out and validates that claim.
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