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Frere-Jones fucks up a lot (A LOT) when writing about urban culture in the New Yorker, yet I look forward to reading what he has to write keeping in mind that everything he is seeing is through the windows of a Manhattan (or Williamsburg?) ivory tower. That being said, his recent article was off the mark and was really reaching to prove its conclusion. Hip-hop is dead because it's adapting or because it has started to integrate house rhythms? Did he miss the hip-house movement in the early 90s with shitty rhyming and euro-rhythms that gave way to NYC's return to darker street rap in the mid 90s?. Quoting a Nas album title was the least of the article's problems.

This is a nice opportunity to remember how much i hated that piece last year, and how much i loved Carl Wilson's rejoinder.