| calin on Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:54:28 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Who Owns Language - the "Hip-hop" issue |
> Hip Hop is a big multi-billion > dollar a year business. I was surprised that a big executive like > Russell Simmons or Clive Davis or even business savy rappers like > Jay-Z, P-Diddy or Eminem never trademarked the phrase. it amazes me as well. but probably all those and other majors of the hip-hop culture were too focused on other business outlets. actually the whole story is the logical outcome of a long degradation process which was taking out hip-hop from its original political stand into the big business. therefore it is time for hip-hop to die, and leave place to other, less business-oriented trends. licesing hip-hop with whoever this Danish from Norway is would be a mistake. time to move further and leave hipo-hop to the present government and its next political campaigns. I can hardly wait to see all those media heads form the W. House swinging it. cool! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]