Is There an Escape Exit From Hip Hop?

When I was a teenager, when we were all teenagers, hip hop was considered like an outsider art. In the course of our adult lives, hip hop has not only become the mainstream, it's become like the only stream. All forms of popular American music now are deeply, deeply informed by kids who grew up listening to rap. And so there's this kind of syncopated, kind of rhythm driven aspect to all American popular music,. So much so that modern rap music feels like far more psychedelic and far more drained of whatever public enemies sounded like. We've seen a bunch of movies in the last five years, films that don't really feel like they're forebears. They