Every 10 years there is a boogeyman in rap - someone that the old heads can moan about in the hopes that the younger generation is discouraged enough to stop making music they deem to not be “hip-hop.” It’s a dirty trick. By deploying the kind of stratagem that leads people to ask ridiculous questions such as “Why haven’t you, an 18-year-old, listened to the Notorious B.I.G.?” radio hosts such as Old Man Ebro of Hot 97 turned young artists into pariahs for arbiters of a musical conse...
Every 10 years there is a boogeyman in rap - someone that the old heads can moan about in the hopes that the younger generation is discouraged enough to stop making music they deem to not be “hip-hop.” It’s a dirty trick. By deploying the kind of stratagem that leads people to ask ridiculous questions such as “Why haven’t you, an 18-year-old, listened to the Notorious B.I.G.?” radio hosts such as Old Man Ebro of Hot 97 turned young artists into pariahs for arbiters of a musical conse...
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