Yam Internet: A Guide to the Best of the Digital World

(Not a review but a stream of consciousness…)I’m in my thirties. I should not love Hip Hop. In a way, I don’t. I have moved on with my life: Discovering and enjoying new undeground music and cultures.I began cheating on Hip Hop during the late 1980s with House music (A decade later white mainstream America discovered House and renamed it Techno, Electronica and Electro! Huh, What?). But it was cool ’cause House became mixed-raced lots of African, German, and British ancestry and rhythms, beats, and melodic stuff. Name changes were no big deal; except that I felt it was an attempt to detach it from its mid-west African American foundation. Not cool. But anyway, Hip Hop and I already had an open relationship which included Soul and R&B. Therefore, Hip Hop and House often partied together with me; dancing and chanting along. Sometimes Dancehall would join the party. Like a said, it was cool. </p><p>Dreadfully, perhaps inevitably, in the late 1990s, Hip Hop abandoned me. Got vainer. Glorified the worst of the ghetto instead of uplifting an reporting about it like Hip Hop used to do! Hip Hop started talking lots of crap. Callin’ me bad names. Callin’ my sisters bad names. Callin’ my brothers bad names. Threatened to kill me. I had to leave. This was not the Hip Hop I fell in love with…So, I got a new groove: Soca. Seduces with plenty of (non-alcoholic) wine and makes me jump and scream. Soca and I are still close to this day. Don’t think we’ll ever part unless Soca changes his tune. For now. Sort of happy the mainstream hasn’t discovered his energetic groove yet even though millions of folks are in “the know.”Still, I reflected fondly on the good times with hip hop. I thought all was lost. Until, I found an Ill Doctrine. Apparently, hip hop has not lost his mind. Has returned with a vengeance from the underground, where he belongs. Finally, showing some sense again. Speaking like a true revolutionary, again. So, I proudly say: Long live Hip Hop - my first love. 

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