Leave it to the New York Times to come up with serious sounding articles about Hip-Hop and DMX. Khelifa Sanneh, writes in today’s NY Times about the ‘tortured’ soul of DMX and how rap stars excepting him generally like to portray themselves in control.
The fact that DMX is ‘tortured’ is evident to everyone. DMX over the years has developed a personality that borders on that of a demented Jehovah’s Witness on crack, with the dogs barking in the background. What is more curious though is the ham lined doggerel that passes of as an attempt to analyze the hitherto unknown mystery of DMX. Ms. Sanneh is of the type that may equally easily come up with an analysis about the beauty of a trash bag floating in air. But then again it has already been covered in the movie version of pretentious vapidity that passes on as serious analysis.
There is obviously a method to the vapidness. The ‘critique’ seems like it was written by a person who has had little or no familiarity with Hip-Hop and finds a little excitement in the curiosity that it is. It is a perfectly condescending account that tries to compensate through facts the utter lack of interest in this ‘type of music’.
Maybe the next time NY Times will skip the trouble of going to that place where the music was perfectly horrid and the food was sort of stale.