[maehwasu]

“But now maybe it’s time to get in the studio with some other people, who maybe don’t have your chops, but who are cooler than you, who listen to more hip-hop and dance music, who can balance out your intellect with some guts.”

And then he should become a teacher and teach inner-city kids multiplication tables using rap!

[freehunter]

For a less snarky take, the Arctic Monkeys Album AM is undeniably a rock album but with a hint of hip-hop influence in the meter and composition and it’s an incredibly striking album. No one is rapping but just lifting the idea of rhyming in the middle of a word and rhyming schemes that span multiple bars gives a breath of fresh air to a mostly stale genre. What are music genres for if they can’t learn from each other?