And I'm saying you're full of s-hit. Rap has no f-ucking idea what it's doing. Rap is the music industry's reality TV. It claimed to be "keepin' it real" but its goal was to make more money than anyone else. Does it decry the fact that it is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Hell, no, it revels in it.
Punk was dada. Its purpose was to make anti-music. No slick production, no slick cover art, no $150 tickets in some big stadium, no $30 t-shirt, hell, just make your own. It wanted to destroy the concept of genres and hit records. It was all bulls-hit to make some label owner big money. With "music" gone and forgotten, something new could be built in its place--something of real value, something truly rewarding. Not just grabbing the money and running which is what turned rock into a phony bunch of overblown brain-cell killing malarkey that needed to be torn down in the first place.
Hip-hop? Hip-hop doesn't give a f-uck about anything BUT money. Hip-hop and punk are nothing alike. No common ground whatever. Punk failed in its objective partly because it despised becoming "generic." But that was its nature--to never be satisfied. The very thing it wanted to stave off is now upon us and it is too late to do anything about it. Punk today is just a rehash of territory long ago explored--the very thing real punk hated.
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