LIB B: FIRST RAPPER MADE ON THE INTERNET #1

Just like there are no real hardcore, working class men standing in the streets around the neighborhood anymore, setting examples, telling kids what right and wrong, and no mothers telling off her friends’ kids as well as her own, there are no hardcore cultural ambassadors standing in the media mainstream passing the torch to the coming generation. Real talent is not afforded there anymore (but takes it’s escape to blogs and trash print media, where less dogma apply, with the following result of either joyous newness or total perversion). Everything that’s not straight from the market division of the record companies or an absolute freak show gets no love. The economic streamlining of the media has all but done away with what is usually referred to as “the fat middles”. Continued translation from Swedish:

A lot of this type of really talented artists gained a popularity that lifted them out of obscurity saleswise, thanks to the attention that this type of open minded but at the same time autistically passionate journalists and editors could give them. That passion seems to have away somewhere else now. Many blame this on an increasing surplus, but at the same time we have the technological conditions to navigate in this surplus today. At least in theory. Until now Myspace and p2p are too decentralized and fragmented, while newspapers are too centralized. Heck, one of the most connecting forums on the net today is as a matter of fact The Pirate Bay.

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