Might be that the popularity of it is now hurting it creatively.  When people are making serious $$ on hip-hop (an increasingly large % of a drastically shirking pool), record company execs are all up in that shit, homegenizing it.

Good to hear.  All of us are still here, reading the AV club instead of doing whatever whitish collar job we are currently stuck in.

Good to hear.  All of us are still here, reading the AV club instead of doing whatever whitish collar job we are currently stuck in.

Power was better.  High Rollers kicks ass.

Power was better.  High Rollers kicks ass.

This has really struck a chord with me, and I cannot stop posting.

This has really struck a chord with me, and I cannot stop posting.

Bravo, sir!  Totally underappreciated record.

Bravo, sir!  Totally underappreciated record.

Nothin sounds quite like a eight.oh.eight.

Nothin sounds quite like a eight.oh.eight.

I'm a little older, 42, but this strikes me as right up my alley.  I probably got in a little earlier (I knew a bit of rap[seems like it wasn't called "hip hop " then] with radio and King of Rock, but really hit it hard with Raising Hell), and out a little earlier (other than some random shit, the last record I can…

I'm a little older, 42, but this strikes me as right up my alley.  I probably got in a little earlier (I knew a bit of rap[seems like it wasn't called "hip hop " then] with radio and King of Rock, but really hit it hard with Raising Hell), and out a little earlier (other than some random shit, the last record I can…

Didn't he say he was 11?

Didn't he say he was 11?