party music? but I though we were activists!
| By aschill - Jul 13th, 2005 at 4:42 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
I'll get to the economic populism panel in a moment, but first I wanted to share this amusing exchange between Ted Leo and two girls who very energetically defended hip hop, which Leo had classified as originating as party music in one of his responses to a question on his panel.
Girl 1: I know you probably know this, but hip hop is not just party music- it bothers me when people associate hip hop with the corporate "pimp and ho, throwin back a forty" stuff that companies think will sell
TL: Right, but I was thinking of, like basement parties-
Girl 2: but hip hop did NOT start as just fun party music- you know, listen to KRS One or Common or tons of other guys-
TL: Yeah, totally! I saw Run DMC in 1983- I grew up on political music
Girl 1: I just think hip hop and punk could work really well together.
Gotta love a conference where nebraskan hip hop fans bond with d.c. punk rockers over cultural activism.
Girl 1: I know you probably know this, but hip hop is not just party music- it bothers me when people associate hip hop with the corporate "pimp and ho, throwin back a forty" stuff that companies think will sell
TL: Right, but I was thinking of, like basement parties-
Girl 2: but hip hop did NOT start as just fun party music- you know, listen to KRS One or Common or tons of other guys-
TL: Yeah, totally! I saw Run DMC in 1983- I grew up on political music
Girl 1: I just think hip hop and punk could work really well together.
Gotta love a conference where nebraskan hip hop fans bond with d.c. punk rockers over cultural activism.
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But
yeah, I think what Ted Leo said wasn't really
meant to be an insult to hip hop. I think we
should more focus on the fact that he did
acknowledge hip hop as a powerful political
outlet, and that all forms of music have the
potential to be political.
-Erika