Originally Posted by Wayfarer

All music is progressive by its very nature FFS. Shut up.

Listen to Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's "The Message" and Run DMC's "Raising Hell". Then move on to Wu-Tang Clan's "36 Chambers" and Nas' "Illmatic". Then give Pharoahe Monch's "Internal Affairs" and Common's "Be" a few listens.

Then try to tell me that hip-hop has never changed or diversified.

I'm not as heavily into electronica, but good God, you can't honestly believe that everything going on within the genre now is exactly the same as what Brian Eno was doing thirty years ago.