Hipster Hop

Tonight the Urban Culture Project is presenting a hip-hop showcase/multi-media art exhibit. The local hipster darlings (read: cock boys) MK-12 will be the biggest name exhibiting their work. However, if you like rap, go over to Kansas, buy a 40oz. kick back and watch a re-run of Rap City on BET. But if hanging out with a bunch of posers who would have sex with their sister if somebody said it was cool . . . than this is the event for you.

In this town there is a radical divide between the denizens of this kind of event and the slightly more talented gangsta rappers. The smarter rappers know that there is a more lucrative future in selling (out) to white audiences. Still, maybe the rise in gangsta rap related violence in KC can somehow be linked to the more vanilla “hipster hop” propagated by this town's trendsetters. Lord knows that all of these white kids wanting to be “down” makes me want to go get a gun.