# the current state of hip hop in tha club by 50 cent wow remember them now currently not playing in the lab background thank goodness few modem researchers are aware but henry swanson and k0de blue ex members of mighty unknown crew 'azt3k' in the deep southern endland amiga 'demoscene' were already lamenting the terminal undeff of hip hop back in the late near-future retro 90's they'd sit in swanson's mother's naff white nissan micra at 'sab's kebabs car park' talking raw street science with a sigh asking quote where that whiny west coast sound went to compare and contrast with today's sellout necrohop to consider modem rap bone dry artificial corporate synthetic chicken flavor sprinkled on diverse product from new wage slave produced factory sneakers to pink middling class home insurance when tracks such as reminisce via pete and cl or tricks via geto boyz stopped playing on underground pirate radio it seemed the undead toll for the truer oldskool for any real or radial afrocentric street knowledge or scientific potential contained wherein like researcher chuck says modem korporate rnb rap directly results from giving hyper consumer babies anything they want in the midst of unfathomable urban economic devastation dispossession institutionally racist social policy and the repeated negative impact of the neoliberalist boot real hip hop artists came together to reclaim ir cities create positive shared space and create what is arguably the world's most influential avant garde art movement of the 20th century thus for real hip hop the only answer is to travel back to its living more actual roots researcher henry swanson: possibly way back to the dawn of civilization on the plains of africa where nomadic space tribes regularly ate uniquely strangely patterned glow in the dark singing mushrooms growing on the dung of giant migratory ungulates and saw visions of the near-future retro 90s hiphop scene // republic of bob