...posted my article on his site: www.daveyd.com which is great.
Davey D is one of the handful of people i've looked up to for a while-- i'm glad he posted the article. Now i just have to worry about Immortal Technique actually seeing it and wanting to beat me up. haha.
I don't have time right now, but at some point in the next few days i'd like to write a little addendum addressing some issues i didn't get a chance to fully explore in the article, especially how race plays out in all this. Is it racist to point out homophobia in hip hop, a black art form, and not in other (whiter) art forms? I think these are valid issues to be raising. Hopefully i'll get a chance to write something soon.
Oh and in the meantime, thanks to everyone for their thoughts and comments. I've gotten a lot of emails and myspace messages about the article, and the post over at okayplayer is pretty long. I'm glad people are reading it.
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on second thought, just check out the comments on this article over at Davey D's myspace:
www.myspace.com/mrdaveyd
pretty interesting.
Open letter to Davey D in response to his so-called Year In Hiphop review:
Yo Davey...
Catch up with Hiphop.... You are talking about the music industry's imitation of Hiphop music and culture, it's called Rap music & culture... You are misrepresenting and misinterpreting the word Hiphop to the people who read your stuff, which is contributing the mass media's/the corporate structures rape and robbing of the original genuine art form... Please correct yourself to your readers... Stop playing along with the game, and respect the art, culture and movement of Hiphop by not fucking up it's identity and referring to imitation Hiphop as Hiphop...
I know this will fall on deaf eyes, but I can't hold it in... You're sleeping with the enemy, stabbing the culture, that you claim, in the back... You're playing a game with an art that saves people's lives ... It's a damned shame too... People actually think you are Hiphop.... I am not having it...
I don't care when or where, I will discuss your relativity to Hiphop with you face to face, man to man, in ANY PUBLIC platform... Please set up something, because I can't stand back and watch you plagiarize yourself as a part of Hiphop culture ANYMORE with bullshit like this being put out... Yeah I mean it, you are being a perpetrator, an industry whore, a plagiarist and an enemy to Hiphop when you misrepresent and misinterpret it to the people all over the world... Change your story to The Year In Rap and we have no problem... As long as you play the game with the word Hiphop, I am going to call you out for crimes against the culture...
I will call you out constantly if you don't set something up, and I hope that the Conspiracy Radio folks hurry and get me the tape of that interview with you and I, cuz I am going to put that out too... Bring it on Davey. You ain't Hiphop...
AC The PD
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