This is interesting. Not because Jay was at a Grizzly Bear show (are we STILL pigeon-holing Black people in 2009?! I thought this was a post-Kanye America!!), but because of what he said about the "movement" of "indie" rock:
“The thing I want to say to everyone — I hope this happens because it will push rap, it will push hip-hop to go even further — what the indie-rock movement is doing right now is very inspiring. It felt like us in the beginning. These concerts, they’re not on the radio, no one hears about them, and there’s 12,000 people in attendance. And the music that they’re making and the connection they’re making to people is really inspiring. So, I hope that they have a run where they push hip-hop back a little bit, so it will force hip-hop to fight to make better music, because it can happen, because that’s what rap did to rock.”
If me or you were to say it, we'd sound crazy, or be labeled angry hipsters . . .so now that King Carter has spoken...will anything change?
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