An update to the Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names, I believe.
Simon Reynolds, arguing that we’re plundering our pop culture past. He continues:
The deeper you venture into the underground, the more music involves pilfering from the past. This is one of the central mysteries that propelled me through the writing of Retromania: how come the very kind of people who would have once been in the vanguard of creating new music (bohemian early adopter types) have switched roles to become antiquarians and curators? In the underground, creativity has become recreativity. The techniques involved are salvage and citation; the sensibility mixes hyper-referential irony with reverent nostalgia.
“I’m not anti-rap. In fact, like Bret Baier, I know the lyrics to ‘Rapper’s Delight.’”
-Sarah Palin, on Common’s appearance at the White House.
I give you … the Warthog Song.
If you look closely, the songbook also has the elephant, rhinoceros and hippopotamus songs.
