I want to agree with Mark Steyn about hip-hop, and I almost kind of could convince myself to be snobbish enough to agree with him if I didn’t know it would just be me succumbing to my worst personality traits.
Yeah, for my money, Billie Holiday is considerably more awesome than Jay-Z. But I’m not here to tell you who is a better credit to the black community. I don’t think Billie Holiday speaks to the current generation. Do I wish she did? Yeah, kind of. But my parents didn’t get rock and roll, so…
I’m not going to talk about rap music. I stopped paying attention around 1994. I’m too busy listening to the stuff I consider timeless.
Do you think they’d do okay on American Idol?
