Hip-Hop Needs More Young People Documenting the Music and Culture
There are so many prominent hip-hop journalists out there, but too many are products of the 1980s and 1990s. The rise of hip-hop journalism in the ’90s was driven by people barely out of their teens, so the entire generation was documenting itself. What we have now are a lot of aging b-boys and girls writing about how “lost” the music has become, as opposed to these kids talking about their generation and documenting themselves.
We didn’t need Baby Boomers writing about Generation X’s music and we don’t need Gen Xers trashing the Millennials’ favorite artists just because they’re not making the kind of music people made 20 years ago.
