Twitter is seemingly the new newness albeit a bit boring unless you really want to know what your favourite artist’s favourite blogger’s favourite artist’s favourite actor is doing on a minute by minute basis. In the meantime Hip-Hop blogging graduated a minute ago and we recently celebrated it’s finest output HERE. Today, the essential weekly guide to the arts in Saturday’s Guardian featured the Hip-Hop Blog World Cup winner Byron Crawford.
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1 Dart_Adams // Jan 24, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Let me get this straight…of all the excellent, well written Hip Hop related blogs and sites on the internet, Byron “Bol” Crawford is the one that gets highlighted. Apparently he’s funny, too. I’ll be damned.
*Shrugs shoulders*
One.
2 Thun aka RHS // Jan 26, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Dart, while Bol’s rants are neither refined nor restrained … do you really think they fall outside of the categories of “well written” or “funny”?? Really? If so, you’re in the distinct minority. I can see getting tired of his shtick easily, but it’s hard to deny that he’s very competent,if not virtuosic at using the blog format to communicate opinions that are at the least, consistently intriguing.
Who are the other hip hop bloggers that are such masterful writers? I follow quite a few blogs and I’m very rarely floored by the writing. The ones that try the hardest (OW, Soderberg, Tray, et al) are not nearly as competent at communicating their ideas concisely with the same devil-may-care attitude that runs rampant in most net conversations. They don’t come off as bloggers in the same way that Bol does. And they probably aren’t trying. But surely you can see why their writing is so much less likely to garner praise in a publication like the Guardian.
But who the hell visits hip hop blogs for quality writing anyhow? I’m in it for mp3 downloads and video interviews. For every Soderberg there’s 70 Tara Henleys hacks who couldn’t write their way out of a Burger King application and contribute nothing of worth to the existing body of knowledge on hip hop.
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