“Posdnuos, Dave and Maseo are so far AHEAD of the hip-hop herd that if their pioneering 1989 debut, 3 Feet High and Rising, were released today, it would revolutionize hip-hop all over again. They’re so far ahead of the curve that no one — from the thugs to the backpack intelligentsia and everyone in between […]”
“The aging of hip-hop presents a serious structural dilemma, similar to the one rock and roll faced a few decades after its inception: if a genre's narrowly targeted at the kids, what happens when those kids grow up? Most of rock's pioneers hit middle age in the 1980s. Their responses to this dilemma sucked more than a modicum of ass, with none sucking more of it than Bowie and Jagger's near career”
