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The last time we talked about Myth, we sprawled out more comments than Maplewood has golfers. Now the Strib revisits Myth and pulls no punches with its lede: "It's no secret that the suburbs love hip-hop." The entertainment director at the club confesses he started with a rock club but hip-hop has scored the biggest turnouts. Given the recent problems at the Quest, it raises some interesting questions about downtown and the burbs, hip-hop culture and rock culture.
Glad I moved out of Maplehood. That whole area has gone in an unfavorable direction, as of late.
what do you mean by "unfavorable"?
Nice head line Mnspeak, way to be socially sensitive. I hate when middle America white people start using the the word "ghetto" to imply what they can't get away with saying. From Websters: 1) a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity. Heaven forbid, some black people show up to something in the 'burbs, now its becoming a ghetto. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Ghettogirl, while we at Mnspeak are frequently insensitive and categorically ashamed of ourselves, in this instance you have misunderstood a joking allusion. I'm guessing that Rex was referring to the fact that the arts community sometimes suspect that the suburbs are a cultural wasteland, a "ghetto" of conformist thinking, if you will; and that long-time hip-hop fans will feel quite annoyed to find themselves sharing their favorite performers with an audience of suburbanites.
Thanks for the typical backpedaling explanation Sarah, I love it when people do the " oh no, it's a metaphore thing " - we all know that the Strib's article and Rex's response were really saying "Holy Crap Batman, look at all these hip-hop loving blacks and wanna-be's that are flooding our lily white suburb - where'd they come from?"
That's hillarious, GhettoGirl -- you've totally seen right through me! I think you may want to read this site a little more before declaring what I'm "really saying." Yo, I wanna burn down the lily white suburbs! And while we're at it, I want to tear down the power elite structure -- and off the top of my head, I can't think of a better initial strategy than infiltrating suburbia with hip-hop.
The implications of "Ghettoizing Hip-Hip To The Burbs" as a headline questions a couple things: 1) has the mainstreaming of hip-hop culture made it more or less relevant? And 2) is this migration about geography (inner-city kids going out to the burbs for shows) or culture (privledged kids identifying with [or co-opting?] an underground scene). Although I don't know the answers to those questions, I definitely think the implications are important ones -- and they're what I was trying to tease out with the post.
Headline: Misleading Country Into War
Confused reaction: You calling my country misleading?
Headline: Driving Rex To Drink
Confused reaction: I hope he gets pulled over before he kills somebody.
Headline: Annoying Bob with Cigarettes
Confused reaction: Bob has cigarettes?! ;)
Sorry, Bob, couldn't resist that last one. Blame it on that ghettoizing hip-hop.
$20 there's a shooting at the Myth before July '06.
Any takers?
I bet ghettogirl is white, suburban, and conflicted.
Rick, you right on, brotha!
Will the men of Maplewood stop looking for wives and start looking for baby mommas?
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