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The Conquest of Hip-Hop — pt. I
Illuminati Ganga Agent 86
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Before I even begin here, the thing you got to understand about music from rock and roll onward is that music is not longer just music, it is part of a performance art project called the Group, or the Star, the Auteur or the Band.<br>Now that you understand that I can say this has become even more of a thing with Hip-Hop, and now we’re at the point where I can say what I want, which is: given the technical innovations and abilities of Hip-Hop, as music, all music is now Hip-Hop.<br>This is also a natural evolution from rock and roll, where bands would make country albums or jazz albums or whatever, but because they were rock and roll somehow those albums became country rock or jazz rock fusion or whatever. The main thing is that it was rock and roll because the presentational side of the popular performance art-form known as the rock group made them so.<br>But now if you make a rock and roll album, without Hip-Hop elements to it, it is still Hip-Hop because of its imminent inclusion by the musical side of Hip-Hop into the universe it represents.<br>Any long or short piece of music, uncut, unsampled, without transitions or mixes with other music in it, is, in the world where Hip-Hop and its methods are the technical summit, Hip-Hop, and you just haven’t heard anything mixed into it yet.
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