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You have to admit though hip-hop is a t5 cultural invention

Up there with the homeric epics. And I'm not being facetious...
metaepistemology is trans
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the homeric greeks the illiterate Balkan bards studied by M...
China Numba One Country in World
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who do you like better? the bards or hiphop? (the yukoslavia...
metaepistemology is trans
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the bards, as literacy is TTT
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yeah. humans got dumber when they started being able to stor...
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metaepistemology is trans
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Given that it coincides with a massive increase in global co...
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lowest common denominator is *your* opinion. hip-hop is 180
metaepistemology is trans
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Lowest common denominator in that it has much lower barriers...
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Date: November 10th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: metaepistemology is trans

Up there with the homeric epics. And I'm not being facetious. When has any people before invented such a 180 genre of art from scratch and had it get this huge?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49416616)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:34 PM
Author: China Numba One Country in World

the homeric greeks

the illiterate Balkan bards studied by Milman Perry in the 1930s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417459)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: metaepistemology is trans

who do you like better? the bards or hiphop? (the yukoslavian ones not the greek ones)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417464)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:41 PM
Author: China Numba One Country in World

the bards, as literacy is TTT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417486)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:44 PM
Author: metaepistemology is trans

yeah. humans got dumber when they started being able to store information in "books". back when they had to memorize knowledge brains were much larger. not flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417498)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: metaepistemology is trans



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417408)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:31 PM
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Given that it coincides with a massive increase in global communications infrastructure I’m not sure whether to dock points for how easy it is to reach a broader audience relative to all prior cultural movements or to give it extra points for nailing the level of the global lowest common denominator so perfectly. But either way it pales in comparison to eg the first 2-3 decades of Hollywood imo, which was far more complex to spread globally and required built out of massive amounts of theatrical infrastructure, and was 100x more dominant and hegemonic as a cultural force and creator of cultural icons and archetypes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417449)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 1:35 PM
Author: metaepistemology is trans

lowest common denominator is *your* opinion. hip-hop is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49417462)



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Date: November 10th, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,;


Lowest common denominator in that it has much lower barriers to entry and can often rely on image much more than any actual talent as a vocalist, musician or writer. It was so easy to scale it globally because anyone could easily generate a beat if they had a turntable (or later a computer) and every culture could appreciate the obviously appeal of metered, rhyming couplets. Of course there are awesome hip hop artists/songs/albums that came out of this massive cultural shift, but there’s a ton of forgettable garbage, just as their was with rock music, but it’s orders of magnitude more shit music with hip hop. Go to any hip hop open mic night at any college in America and you’ll spend 2+ hours listening to a bunch of people who suck and who likely would never have even tried to pretend they have creative ambitions if it wasn’t simple to declare oneself a hip hop artist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5795588&forum_id=2.#49418272)