(26) Exclusionary tactics
Who is to discredit someone as being "not hip hop," simply because they don't like them? Invariably, you can find someone on the internet professing to their fanship of some obscure, undiscovered (or just-discovered) artist to latch onto, then talk about them as if they're the best thing ever invented, if only because they have heard of them and you have not... They will prattle on about how "fake" and "watered down" that "commercialized" music has become. Bonus points scored if you can get them to cop to once liking a current (or recently previously popular) artist, but it always comes with the qualifier "I liked him better when he was still underground," even if that artist never even pretended to be "underground," whatever that may mean in the grand scheme of things. There is always the underground/mainstream argument -- which is fucking stupid -- when music of any genre is concerned. Being that I spend my time arou