Hip-Hop Mutates
My ambivalence about Hip-Hop's mutations is tempered by things like Rammellzee's work and the earlier Non-Hop records. Also it's interesting that someone like Kool Keith, one of Rakim's seven MCs, a pillar of Hip-Hop, should make something as perverse as the Dr. Octagon record. Another surprise is the Material record which is one of the best things Laswell has ever done.