you are viewing a single comment's thread.  view the rest of the
comments →  [–]TriangleDimes 2 points3 points ago  This is the
weird part... Like if Rolling Stones came out with a record
tomorrow, rock fans across the board would get it at least out
of curiosity. Regardless of age, gender, culture. Bob Dylan,
same story (his last record - Modern Times - did pretty well!)
Tom Waits.  I just fucking hate this idea that "rap is a young
game." Young people suck. The Beatles sucked when they were
young, but they got better. All these artists - classical,
blues, jazz, electronic - get better with age. Of course you
would! You know more things! You're better at the craft! You
have more experience!  Except hip hop? It always needs to be
this aggressive, sexually weird, desperate, jerky genre of
music? Why does it need to be Young Men, the worst people in the
world?  That's why even though I don't like Jay Z, I want him to
keep going. I wanna see the 70 year old rapper. I wanna see KRS-
One making shit we haven't hear