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 ”In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.” Robert Green Ingersoll

So, as we discussed the current state of Hip-Hop and how 12 and under talent shows enrich our lives more than alot of the music out today, my man Ab Rock summed it up with this: “Mediocrity is the new dope”. Every now and again you hear something that just sticks with you and it’s hard to get it off your mind…like when I heard Halle Berry was getting an Oscar for sounding like a junkie while Billy Bob Thornton filled her out on the big screen (make me feel guuuuuud). I’m still having trouble with that one. I think it all started with the phrase “hatin”. Perhaps not the phrase it self, but the fact that no matter what you didn’t like or what your explanation was, you were labeled as being a “hater”. I tried in vain to explain that not everything was good. I mean if everything is good…then nothing is garbage?! Can ten people run a race and all place first? Does everyone that’s nominated win an award? If not, then how can you be a hater because you don’t like something. It’s like this new child rearing thing where everyone is a winner. These are the type of mindsets that won’t allow kids to play tag so no one has to be “out”. I call shenanigans.

We aren’t all winners and you can’t always get what you want. Even when it’s a matter of opinion, not everyone likes everything. People have preferences. It’s one thing to be like Spit from Beat Street and just maliciously hate on others. It’s another to just not like something. Common addressed it best: “If I don’t like it, I don’t like it, that don’t mean that I’m hating.” This type of atmosphere is what allows anything, even the mediocre, to be dope. It stops people from really striving to push the limit and go above and beyond. We can just write it off to, “that’s them being them”. Even I have varied levels of performance and (public school was proof) when I could succeed (or just get by) and not give my best, then I put it on cruise control. When I knew I had to grind, I dug deep. If you call people out for cruising (or stagnating even) and are called a hater, then no one has to dig deep. There’s an automatic defense built in - Stop hating. This is bad enough in music, but what about life in general? Anyway, I wanted to get some thoughts from various people on the concept.

“I write over at XXL and some of the commenters tell me that rap music isn’t about lyrics? It’s about swagger. WTF?!? How can rap music NOT be about lyrics?All of this points to the fact that these kids favorite rapper are under and miseducated therefore he has little ability to describe more than average experiences and an average existence. Never has being average been so popular. The problem with aspiring to an average existence is that if you miss that mark, and some do, what do you think you have left?”

Dallas Penn Internets Celebrity, Inventor of the Polysyllabic Method

“Dope is a substance that gets you high, but in the end its detrimental
to your health and lifestyle. Mediocrity or operating or creating
substandardly seems to be what people are hooked onto now, but the
reality is that the creation or operation is not benefiting them in any way,
moreover its hurting them. For example, hip hop is very mediocre these days, but people are hooked to it, hooked to hooks, to average lyrics, etc. The sad thing is the
lack of lyrisim is no longer inspiring from a lyrical perspective or a
life one. In the end, listeners and the culture will be doomed to
destruction.”

Myisha Cherry - I once pimped myself out to her to get a workshop faciliator.

“I’d give the rise of lil wayne
and my begruding like for his lyrical content as a direct effect of
the mediocre is the new dope paradigm. It’s like as consumers we’ve
scrapped the bottom of the talent barrel, so whatever stands out
against the daily barrage of garbage,regardless of how average it
would have been back in the day, sound like the second coming of
christ - I call it the Lil wayne effect…lol. We’ve been blinded by
the swagger, our programming has been programmed, to the point that
originality is frowned upon.”

We are the first generation that boasts no new classics. Everything is
recycled , at such an alarming rate that we’ve run out of things to
recycle. leaving behind a culture that is wholly disposable.”

Ab-Rock - Dope Emcee with mortgage payments, kids and a wife….and you can play a little Street Fighter on his Myspace.

Damn, A disposable culture. Having seen alot of the attitudes that are prevelant, I ask how did it get this way? How did we go from trying to out do one another to just…doing? Join us next time. Whoops wrong medium…read the next installment I mean.