In the video for Machine Gun Kelly’s “Wild Boy,” MGK asks Waka Flocka Flame if he’s a good rapper. “Fuck no,” Waka replies. It’s not an admission or confession, but rather a boast—he is proud not to be a “good” rapper. And the Waka Flocka verse is, as he admits, not great, at least by traditional standards. It’s more passion than precision, in contrast to Kells’ Twista-styled technical tightness. “Cobain’s back!” MGK repeats after Waka Flocka’s verse. It is a fitting refrain. It was Kurt Cobain’s Nirvana who was most responsible for bringing the punk esthetic back to rock music in the early 90s, inaugurating a new era in which sloppiness and error was as valuable as proficiency and perfection.Jay-Z even claims in Pharrell’s upcoming book that the “rebellious spirit of youth” and iconoclastic rawness of Nirvana and early 90s grunge music articulated the zeitgeist and “stopped [hip-hop] for a second.”
After decades of increasing polish and precision in rap music, a new tendency toward sloppiness is emerging, reminiscent of punk rock. At its most extreme, the trend treads the line between expertise and seeming incompetence. We might call it “Slip-hop,” a new wave that excuses the mistake in pursuit of capturing the immediacy of passion and, at its more radical fringes, revels in error and experiments in the wreckage.
Очень интересная статья. Вкратце суть в том, что в нулевые рэпперы слишком гнались за перфекционизмом, и в итоге весь лакированно-блестящий радийно-форматный хип-хоп стал скучным и однообразным. И сейчас культура делает эдакий панк-поворот, где энергия важнее качества, а ошибки (сознательные или нет) имеют самостоятельную художественную ценность, причем предвестником этого процесса можно назвать... Jay-Z с песней "D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)".
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