![]() ![]() But due to the ways the US music scene was influenced by gentrification and appropriation, evacuating hip-hop’s devotion to black culture and transforming rap into an industry synonymous with popular culture, the term now mostly denotes an attachment to the music of a particular period. Originally “hip-hophead” implied specific cultural and political commitments to the everyday survival of black people. But when you claim yourselfas a head-a sneakerhead, a Beatlehead, a hip-hophead-the suffix carries a somewhat uppity declaration of expertise, at once a boast and an assertion of membership in a particular culture or scene. It smacks of a compulsiveness that renders your activities illicit or, at the very least, will have you deemed a space-cadet. ![]() The suffix “-head” tends to mark a genre of name-calling. ![]()
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