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Games more important than hip-hop Comments by Games Industry.biz

19 May, 2008

When it comes to influencing men, says man.

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SBfistfun
19/05/08 @ 09:53
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hip hop?

crimp plop more like
space ace
19/05/08 @ 09:58
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respect, fool
locus2k1
19/05/08 @ 09:59
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*sigh*
gingerlink
19/05/08 @ 10:04
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plenty of people seem to be looking at video games to blame, can we go back to the music?
Spanky
19/05/08 @ 10:04
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How dare he compare our beloved games to retarded plinky plonk like hip hop.
Xerx3s
19/05/08 @ 10:07
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the_dudefather
19/05/08 @ 10:09
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and it all started on the streets of south bohan
Laika
19/05/08 @ 10:13
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"Is GTA IV really more important in your life than Vanilla Ice or DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince?"

Course not. Jazzy Jeff FTW.
rob230
19/05/08 @ 10:22
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I took a shit this morning that was way more important than hip-hop
Vertical Stand
19/05/08 @ 10:25
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Yeah Jazzy Jeff is actually pretty cool, doesn't warrant the comparism with idiots, for those interested he puts out albums on small labels like BBE and Rapster.

Anyhow ignoring the hip hop stereotypes, not all hip hop is like that, not by a long shot, simply associating videogames with men and men with crime is pretty insulting, but I've not read the book so don't if they are making sweeping statments or just discussing certain games.

Must admit I don't find videogames tro be nihilistic at all, does the author provide any examples, using in-game evidence or is it all a load of hot air.
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FooAtari
19/05/08 @ 10:28
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tick tick tick, BOOM
patchbox360
19/05/08 @ 11:14
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games could never be an influence on the human mind, it has a special exemption of course
Salvia
19/05/08 @ 11:22
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What a load of shit.
skillian
19/05/08 @ 11:41
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Just like gamers know not all games are just sensationalistic violence with no real substance (although a lot is), hip hop fans know that hip hop is not just sensationalistic violence with no real substance (although a lot is).

It's a shame that some people here dismiss hip hop (including the writer?) the way my mum dismisses video games...

Malazan
19/05/08 @ 11:47
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Try playing Eternal Sonata and saying games are nihilistic. Or Lost Odyssey.
Muddtallica
19/05/08 @ 11:51
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Nothing is more important in my life than Vanilla Ice. Nothing.
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19/05/08 @ 11:57
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It's a shame that some people here dismiss hip hop (including the writer?) the way my mum dismisses video games...

amen to that. what's saddest is that most people aren't even aware that there's another side to hip-hop apart from the violent/mysogynistic obessesed mainstream...
barchetta
19/05/08 @ 12:11
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It's a shame that some people here dismiss hip hop (including the writer?) the way my mum dismisses video games...

amen to that. what's saddest is that most people aren't even aware that there's another side to hip-hop apart from the violent/mysogynistic obessesed mainstream...

Yes, but the labels pushing out the latest Jay-Z / 50cent wankery appear to want to erase from the history of the genre some of the seminal work done by the likes of Grandmaster Flash / Disposable Heroes etc.
Yaster
19/05/08 @ 12:13
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\So, what? All you guys are into Coal Chamber then?
Anthony_UK
19/05/08 @ 12:30
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I think music is still far more influencial.

Videogames in my opinion are just a form of escapism/relaxation.Where as popular rap artists at the moment such as 50 cent etc are people who are selling there fans (who are mainly kids lets face it) that the idea of shooting people, selling drugs and such like is the way to make it big/ are cool things to do!

I'm a fan of rap myself, But I think one of my all time favorites 'Canibus' says it best....

Tell 'em how I'm tired of the state rap is in/
Ninety percent of the shit that rappers
kick is subject matter-less/
Not original, but blasphemous, just a bunch of the same characters
shootin the same videos, it's embarassin/
Usin the same formulas to have a hit
Usin the same actors and actresses, same shit different laxative
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Nithron
19/05/08 @ 13:35
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In other news, Nihilism = Evil, American Author concludes.
red_shift
19/05/08 @ 14:25
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Nelson George? Surely George Nelson.
patchbox360
19/05/08 @ 15:09
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control their minds
dominalien
19/05/08 @ 18:24
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I dunno 'bout that. I always listen to music when I'm not playing video games.






This is like... never.
Frosty840
19/05/08 @ 19:24
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I find it astonishing that people still don't understand that videogames have genres...
I couldn't really tell from the article what tone the guy had towards videogames, but it would appear that he was at least phrasing his comments to treat them as an undifferentiated whole, whether or not he thinks they are that.

It would be nice if the mainstream could be penetrated with the idea that there's something out there in gameland for everyone.
He certainly would have been taken to task by someone if he had referred constantly to "music" instead of "hip-hop"...
Ryze
19/05/08 @ 20:40
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Mainstream HipHop's now a big steaming pile of shite - that's why Gaming is more influential.

/thread over.
élbéróss
19/05/08 @ 21:44
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yes mainstream hip hop is waste, but true hip hop is pioneered by the underground movement. You cant compare poetry and gaming..
YourMessageHere
20/05/08 @ 00:39
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Oranges more important than apples when it comes to influencing fruitcakes, says fruitcake.
Zuiyo
20/05/08 @ 06:50
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Nelson George (not George Nelson) is a very respected writer in hip hop. I recommend his book Hip Hop America. Education (for y'all).
louyfitz
23/05/08 @ 10:10
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who does this thicko think he is anyway?

Hip hop is a genre, video games are not a genre.

ok, so he could compare hip hop to say FPS games, that would make a little more sense, not much tho considering that it's two completely different mediums.

In games you get to do things, things that you could never do in real life. Hip hop just lets you listen, no intereaction.

I'm a heavy metal man myself, but I do like a little rap from time to time, bit of tupac while playing gta or smoking up a spliff.

"Staring at the world thru' my rear view"

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