i will be the first person to acknowledge that the entire art form of music is in a terrible rut, and that it may not survive the onslaught of neo-liberalism - we may lose music as an art form altogether

but, hip-hop is a symptom of this and not a solution to it.

i would like to look at something past the rock era, and the obvious answer is in techno, but there's not a lot happening there, either - techno, itself, seems to have peaked in the 90s.

we're in a bad state. yeah.

hip hop's a reflection of it, not a path out of it.