Comments on: Hip-Hop blogging makes The Guardian Guide http://fatlacemagazine.com/2009/01/hip-hop-blogging-makes-the-guardian-guide/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Thun aka RHS http://fatlacemagazine.com/2009/01/hip-hop-blogging-makes-the-guardian-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-4753 Thun aka RHS Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:09:43 +0000 http://fatlacemagazine.com/?p=3753#comment-4753 Dart, while Bol's rants are neither refined nor restrained ... do you really think they fall outside of the categories of "well written" or "funny"?? Really? If so, you're in the distinct minority. I can see getting tired of his shtick easily, but it's hard to deny that he's very competent,if not virtuosic at using the blog format to communicate opinions that are at the least, consistently intriguing. Who are the other hip hop bloggers that are such masterful writers? I follow quite a few blogs and I'm very rarely floored by the writing. The ones that try the hardest (OW, Soderberg, Tray, et al) are not nearly as competent at communicating their ideas concisely with the same devil-may-care attitude that runs rampant in most net conversations. They don't come off as bloggers in the same way that Bol does. And they probably aren't trying. But surely you can see why their writing is so much less likely to garner praise in a publication like the Guardian. But who the hell visits hip hop blogs for quality writing anyhow? I'm in it for mp3 downloads and video interviews. For every Soderberg there's 70 Tara Henleys hacks who couldn't write their way out of a Burger King application and contribute nothing of worth to the existing body of knowledge on hip hop. Dart, while Bol’s rants are neither refined nor restrained … do you really think they fall outside of the categories of “well written” or “funny”?? Really? If so, you’re in the distinct minority. I can see getting tired of his shtick easily, but it’s hard to deny that he’s very competent,if not virtuosic at using the blog format to communicate opinions that are at the least, consistently intriguing.

Who are the other hip hop bloggers that are such masterful writers? I follow quite a few blogs and I’m very rarely floored by the writing. The ones that try the hardest (OW, Soderberg, Tray, et al) are not nearly as competent at communicating their ideas concisely with the same devil-may-care attitude that runs rampant in most net conversations. They don’t come off as bloggers in the same way that Bol does. And they probably aren’t trying. But surely you can see why their writing is so much less likely to garner praise in a publication like the Guardian.

But who the hell visits hip hop blogs for quality writing anyhow? I’m in it for mp3 downloads and video interviews. For every Soderberg there’s 70 Tara Henleys hacks who couldn’t write their way out of a Burger King application and contribute nothing of worth to the existing body of knowledge on hip hop.

]]> By: Dart_Adams http://fatlacemagazine.com/2009/01/hip-hop-blogging-makes-the-guardian-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-4738 Dart_Adams Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:51:15 +0000 http://fatlacemagazine.com/?p=3753#comment-4738 Let me get this straight...of all the excellent, well written Hip Hop related blogs and sites on the internet, Byron "Bol" Crawford is the one that gets highlighted. Apparently he's funny, too. I'll be damned. *Shrugs shoulders* One. Let me get this straight…of all the excellent, well written Hip Hop related blogs and sites on the internet, Byron “Bol” Crawford is the one that gets highlighted. Apparently he’s funny, too. I’ll be damned.

*Shrugs shoulders*

One.

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