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Originally Posted by louder
this is true. especially since Flavor Flav said that shit about "it's not hip-hop if you can't breakdance to it", now they're seen as a joke among young people.
old white rockers (as evidenced in this thread) still see them as the pinnacle of hip-hop though, hehe.
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Well if there's anything more ridiculous than what Flavor Flav says it's the idea that anyone takes anything he said with more than a pinch of salt. Flavor Flav has been a clown since day one, and that's why everyone loved him.
Secondly, re: PE I would expect it's more than just old white rockers. The hiphop community held It Takes a Nation of Millions to be the de facto greatest rap record ever for about 15 years. From as far back as I can remember as a hiphop fan (i.e. 1990) the overriding consensus was that It Takes a Nation was the set in stone, unquestioned pinnacle of the genre, bar none. If you picked up a hiphop magazine that had an alltime best of list It Takes a Nation was ALWAYS the number one album, and Rakim was ALWAYS the number one rapper.
TBH I found it a little boring that there was such conservatism at play, not least because I've always preferred Fear of a Black Planet. Some time in the early/mid 2000s opinions re: ITaNoM became less homogenous I think.
So it's not just old white rockers, as much as older everyone. Besides I think if you went to old white rockers you're more likely to find they like Cypress Hill or the Beastie Boys than PE.