Gahed !</tilte> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </script> </head> <body> <center> <img src="http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7450/minnesotanicebannercopyrd9.jpg"> <table width="700" height="400"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <br> <center> <b>What is “Authentic” Hip-Hop?</b> </center> <br> It is eternal and timeless. We enjoy and gravitate to the Hip Hop that sounds like what we think “Hip Hop” should be. It is all built up out of all your experiences with it, all your best times and heart felt pleasures of beat & verse. <br> <br> <b><u>Hip Hop is your own thought.</u></b> <br> <br> “Authentic” hip hop has become the rise not of a collective, but of superficial individuality. There is no “authentic” Hip Hop. When people talk of “authentic” hip hop, they speak not of “truth” but of a collective memory fetish. They instantly regress to a self they no longer are, the one that clings to the blanket, which is to say, to that “hip-hop” sound. <br> <br> <b><u>We will keep the image alive...</u></b> <br> <br> ... and listen to and create with, BD 10’s, 808’s, synth stabs, and the same clichéd breaks and rhythms. Much of what is called “hip hop” today has lost it’s distaste for cliché. It has thrown itself upon the sword like the honorable act of samurai, but its suicide is less honorable having killed itself for nothing more than fame, money, or worse, “Authenticity.” <br> <br> <b><u>The question should not be what is or what is not “hip hop,”. </u></b> <br> <br> The question and revolution should follow the roots of hip hop. And by its “roots,” I mean its roots in musical artistry, in the creation of not the same tired clichés but a voice of original expression. To move beyond hip hop is to be faced with a mystery... it may not sound like what you are used to, it may not be what everyone else thinks is “hip hop,” and it may not be recognizable, but, here in that precise moment of confusion don‘t think, don‘t turn.. <br> <br> <center> <h3><b>Hip hop. Post-Rap. 808's. Daps. Hugs...coming to Minneapolis on 08.01.08 </b></h3> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2544665016_df46d08138.jpg"> <br> <br> <h3><b>Free "Raphood & Authenticity" Album On 08.01.08</b></h3> Enter your email address to receive the album in your inbox: <Br> <form name="emailgaheds" method="post" action=""> <br><input type="text" name="email"> <input type="submit" name="gahed" value="Gahed!"> </form> <br> <br> <h3><b>You too, can help save the world, Son!</b></h3> <br> <img src="http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/940/bannnnerrg3.gif"> <br> <br> Copy and paste the code below into your MySpizzle. You know you want to. <br> <textarea cols="60" rows="3" style="words" name="myspace"> <center><a href="http://records.gahed.com"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/2544665016_df46d08138.jpg"></a></center> </textarea> <br> </center> <br> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>