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Originally Posted by Danny Himself
Hm. I guess Hip Hop was pretty heavy when it came on the scene... as heavy as punk I guess. But MTV took it and processed it and sold it off to Nike and Movie Producers piece by piece, as tidy little packages of cool.
Gah, you can't have anything these days.
There's still some acts around who haven't been corrupted, yes, but it's just not the same anymore.
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when hiphop came on the scene it was just party music, barely different to disco, it was years before it evolved beyond that, and if it hadn't been picked up by mtv (and become a financially viable medium with exposure outside of its home city) it would probably have disappeared and possibley never evolved into the heaviness of groups like public enemy or the wu-tang.