I know what you’re thinking. “Really, Tang?  Hip hop is dead?  I’ve heard that before.”  So, I want to clarify at the start by saying that this is not how I feel.  However, someone who I regard as being one of the great hip hop/pop cultural  commentators of our time, Jay Smooth, has declared the death of hip hop.  And when Jay Smooth says hip hop is dead I don’t take it as lightly as when I hear that noise coming out of other people’s mouths or, as in this case, blogs.  Now, you might be asking yourself “what caused Mr. Smooth to  make such a bold claim?”  It was this:

“Hip-Hop was irreparably destroyed by the 25th Anniversary remake of ‘We Are The World‘”    Read the rest of this entry »