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In response to "And You Don't Pause" from The Escapist Forum: I'd really love if there were more hip-hop games.
To be honest, as most music has, hip-hop/rap has gotten worse over the years, and many people confuse rap with hip-hop and gangsta rap with all rap.
This has gotten people to never even consider the genre, throwing away wonderful music simply because it's from a genre they don't listen to.
If people confused "metal" as Dragonforce v. Black Sabbath v. Dream Theater v. Queen all as the same damn thing...
Or said Nickelback and Pink Floyd are the same because they're both rock...
You can understand my frustration when people say MF DOOM is the same as Tupac is the same as Eminem is the same as Soulja Boy.
- Valiance
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In response to "Sonic the Hamilton" from The Escapist Forum: Funny to read this when a friend of mine, through a MMO, is a rapper. He doesn't overtly include much by way of gaming, but I can see some of it tying in when he gets away from the more stereotypical topics.
Gaming and many different types of music have stronger ties than many realise. The same is very true of gamers and the Metal genre (all sub-genres included, you just need to poke around a little into death-glam-nerd-Metal) with many different artists being nerds in their own right. A hell of a lot of metalheads are gamers too, the same fair enough to say of rappers.
Awesome piece Tom, never in a million years would I have thought anyone on this site would even know about Charles Hamilton, let alone write an article about him. A shame you didn't mention MF DOOM, with his persona ever changing from a Dr DOOM like persona, to an alien from outer space, to a half DOOM half mouse hybrid. Not to mention ytCracker, and a host of other Nerdcore rappers.
I've been following Charles Hamilton for a while now, and I have all of his mix-tapes, and I do see him bringing geek culture and intelligence back to the mainstream of hip hop music. Sonic The Hamilton is an awesome mix-tape that I can't stop listening to.
Either way, great piece, shame it won't see past a page or two considering how badly hip hop is vilified around here, and keep it up.
P.S. As for the violence money and drugs, well it's there but I feel like perhaps it should have been emphasised that it's in the mainstream moreso than anything, but that's a minor gripe.
