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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I believe when it all became known about what Afrika Bambaataa had been up to the whole foundations of hip hop as a credible art
by fidotron 3y ago
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I believe when it all became known about what Afrika Bambaataa had been up to the whole foundations of hip hop as a credible art form fell away, and it has been in decline ever since. Maybe the offshoots are more commercially popular than ever but that serious audience seems to have given up on the core product.
- haste410 3y agoWho is the "serious audience" and what is the "core product" they've given up?
- atentaten 3y agoWhat was he up to ? When did it become known?
- fidotron 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa#Child_sexual_abuse_allegations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrika_Bambaataa#Child_sexual_...
- atentaten 3y agoOk. That's abhorrent, but I can't make the leap to discredit the entire genre of Hip Hop based on the actions of an early pioneer.
- michaelt 3y agoGiven that a lot of 80s-90s hip hop music the musicians claimed to perpetrate murder, drug crime and sexual exploitation - would you expect the audience to much care?
- qbasic_forever 3y agoAbsolute garbage comment. Go listen to some 60s rock and it's nothing but the same themes. Jim Morrison and the Doors wrote songs about explicitly killing your father, doing drugs, etc.
- bdcravens 3y agoCountry music talks about drugs more than other genres https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/why-country-music-sings-about-drugs-more-than-any-other-genre-121769/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/why-country...
- joshuakb 3y agoAfrika Bambaataa undeniably played a significant role in the early days of hip hop, but his sound hasn't influenced the genre for over three decades. If we start discrediting half a century of art based on the actions of a single individual, we'll be left with very little. Should we consider techno and all its offshoots invalid because of Derrick May's sexual assaults? Write off rock as art because Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin? Invalidate punk because Sid Vicious killed his gf? No serious fan of hip hop stopped listening because of this.
- dvngnt_ 3y agonot at all. most listeners have no idea who he is. nor is he relevant in contemporary hiphop