Printed in the University of Guelph weekly paper called the "Ontarion":

This is in response to the well crafted article by Grant Burns entitled "The Pop Rotation". I thought the piece did an excellent job of degrading the music industry and I couldn't agree more with the author that people today are buying into superficial, mass produced, car-selling, originality-lacking, made-in-half an hour crap. In particular I'd like to pick on the bling bling, oh not-so fresh hip-hop scene of today. The days of meaningful hip-hop (minus the Roots and J5) are long gone and I for one am sick of people clinging on to a stale genre based on commercialism (re: Meth and Red doing ads for Right Guard) and super duper hard knocks thug attitudzz. Give me a break people; Hip-Hop has evolved into everything it was against. What scares me more about the music consumers of today is that the trend is growing towards avoiding diversity. Please take the time to listen to something other than the radio or Much Music for maybe 5 minutes and perhaps you might come across something meaningful, profound, or wow even enjoyable. Great article Grant, end rant.

- Jonathan Rinaldo (me)

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Are you kidding! The rap on the radios today is sooo talented!

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nice post halo20, i think you got it dead on, hip-hop is in a sad state today.

hehehe....... "trance in your pants, eh? "

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Ya well you could say the same for trance these days too..

I agree that the majority of hiphop is in a sad state, but if you look hard enough, there is quailty shit out there. Its really just like any music in the world today. I mean, if trance got radio play as often as hiphop, and all we heard on the radio was Dj sammy, Atb, Alice Deejay, and Darude we'd all be bashing trance right now. Dont get me wrong, MOST hiphop (like the bling bling, let my gat blow, commercial shit) is really annoying, but if you look in the right places and the right era's on any kind of music, you can find good shit. 1992 - 1995 imo had the best hiphop ever. Since ive seen a lot of recent (and well deserved) hiphop bashing as of late, im going to post my top 25 from 92 -95.

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i used to listen to a lotta hiphop in the 80's and early 90's before i got into more electronic stuff. like any kind of music, you have ur goods and bads but i think it's unfair to dispell an entire genre because the more popularized forms of the music make it look bad..

there's a lotta good hiphop late nights on 89.5 FM and 100.7 FM (sometimes) too ..

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Originally posted by halo20 Printed in the University of Guelph weekly paper called the "Ontarion": This is in response to the well crafted article by Grant Burns entitled "The Pop Rotation". I thought the piece did an excellent job of degrading the music industry and I couldn't agree more with the author that people today are buying into superficial, mass produced, car-selling, originality-lacking, made-in-half an hour crap. In particular I'd like to pick on the bling bling, oh not-so fresh hip-hop scene of today. The days of meaningful hip-hop (minus the Roots and J5) are long gone and I for one am sick of people clinging on to a stale genre based on commercialism (re: Meth and Red doing ads for Right Guard) and super duper hard knocks thug attitudzz. Give me a break people; Hip-Hop has evolved into everything it was against. What scares me more about the music consumers of today is that the trend is growing towards avoiding diversity. Please take the time to listen to something other than the radio or Much Music for maybe 5 minutes and perhaps you might come across something meaningful, profound, or wow even enjoyable. Great article Grant, end rant. - Jonathan Rinaldo (me)

Exactly... that's why i stopped spinning hip-hop, stop making beats, and stopped emceeing. I just got too pissed off with the whole scene that i just didn't want to be a part of it anymore. Thank God (whatever it may be) Trance and Jungle were there when i needed them the most!

nice!

you know whats funny...when im on the treadmill at the gym, there are multiple tvs facing the people working out. one of the channels is muchmusic, and they have the caption feature turned on so you can see the words displayed on teh screen. whenever a rap song comes on, i cannot believe how shitty the lyrics are. seriously, they are written by 10 year olds...there is just nothing interesting or thought provoking about them.

nice post johnny boy.

steve.

congratulations Jon...

however i do a more direct approach

last week we had to do impromtus in my communication class but just practise style and so i was among the ones to be chosen and i go up and we had to talk about ourselves so i started battering hiphop and rap like craziness.. yet i was politically correct by goin "no offence to any listeners" at the end

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Originally posted by dEsidEL i used to listen to a lotta hiphop in the 80's and early 90's before i got into more electronic stuff. like any kind of music, you have ur goods and bads but i think it's unfair to dispell an entire genre because the more popularized forms of the music make it look bad.. there's a lotta good hiphop late nights on 89.5 FM and 100.7 FM (sometimes) too .. peace

Same here. But Remember; back then it was called "Rap" and it did not have a four letter word every second. Y'all already know about my disgust for this recycled music Genre so no need to ramp.

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