![]() ![]() The other aspects serve it, but perfect performance and production of empty ideas can’t fake the fill. ![]() Or rather: what matters to art is its matter, what it’s about, the ideas it communicates to its audience. And what that means is that matter matters more than art. How devious or wonderful Producer X’s beats are can get you on your feet more quickly, but hip-hop isn’t an abstract sonic art form. Technique is a limited part of any art form, really: how well Rapper X raps is important but not central. ![]() What do people think of when they think about hip-hop? I don’t mean the technique of the music so much as its meaning. ![]() This is the second in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop’s recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Photo: Maya Robinson and Photo David Corio Run DMC at Hammersmith Odeon London 13 September 1986 ![]()
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