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Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

I love how you used dubstep to frame out this very serious ( to me? ) cultural issue. I was an early fan, for being outside the U.K./Europe anyway, and I remember distinctly around 2009 when I realized saying the word dubstep itself meant very different things to different people. And that my definition was on the losing side — or the side that was not definitive of the style in the eyes of the larger public.

HipHop had/has similar turbulence and it gets framed out as a generational issue, when some of it is a kind of unspoken yearning for quality control; or a return to the way the music would shift stylistically every few years. From a subculture perspective, a lot of the young artists are actually chipping away at something new, but because it get categorized as “hip-hop” “rap” or worse “urban” you get these running battles for definition, when they could have just developed their own meanings and ran with a new moniker.

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