Why I hate EDM...

If you close your mind to any single type/genre of music you are depriving yourself. As a DJ (ANY DJ), that is just unacceptable. Nod your head to some Country, whatever, enjoy music from ALL genres. Your heart n' soul will thank you for it.

Ofcourse.
My point was that DJing pre-dates hip-hop.
Pre-Dates Disco.
In fact, most of the new dance genres of the last 20 years have been created by DJs.

I don't know why but I have always been drawn towards "darker" music. It just seems more genuine. Even when I was a kid I liked my music hard. I remember the Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" vividly with a Kelly Bundy look-a-like hooker under the street light. My 5 disc CD changer in the 4th grade had AC/DC Back in Black and 4 Guns N' Roses albums (G N' R Lies, Appetite for Destruction, and Use Your Illusion 1&2). From there the whole "Seattle Grunge" thing took off and I'd relate a lot of those bands to this same concept of "Real Life" or not ALL happy-go-lucky so to say. I listened to strictly "License to Ill" for almost all of 8th grade (about 7 years after the album was released), the rap thing was taking off and in high school I was very into the mainstream hardcore rap and the "Underground" Chicago gangster rap. Senior year I developed a taste for some "Heavy" rock when Disturbed released their first album. The next few years I was all about Led Zeppelin and The Doors. Moved to AZ and was introduced to some West-Coast "Underground" (The Alkaholiks, Defari, Hiero) and really started digging for new sounds. I found some East-Coast stuff I liked (Beatnuts mostly). When I returned to Chicago I met a friend who turned me onto the whole Indie scene (Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Mr. Lif, and more). I realized that these independent artists had a lot more heart in their music than almost anything I'd heard (with the exception of Led Zeppelin). They were passionate about their craft and toured non-stop to scrape by, most of them are still doing it 10 years later.

It's definitely not for everyone, just like my tolerance for the "Pretty" things. It's just not how the world is. It's the picture the media has painted for modern society. They are selling you what they told you to like. I dunno.

I do apologize for my blunt approach to trying to get a Hip-Hop discussion going amongst a majority of EDM fans, but at the same time I do feel some of this needs to be said to some of these bandwagon types.

TRUTH. Often times people confuse the two when they are actually quite different when it comes to subject matter. Very little of the BS that is played on the radio, and that most of these kids listen to nowadays, classifies as "hip-hop". That's where you get all the nonsense about "bling, bitches, etc." Hip-hop, rather, contains subjects of actual meaning instead of placing emphasis on material things as rap does. Just figured I'd attempt to add some clarity to the recurring confusion of the two I've been seeing lately.

Let this thread die

Eminem's whole schtick was stolen from Cage. The whole drugged out mad-man thing was Cage's shit well before Em and Dre stole it and sold it to millions with the help of mega-corporations.

I don't know why but I have always been drawn towards "darker" music. It just seems more genuine. Even when I was a kid I liked my music hard. I remember the Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" vividly with a Kelly Bundy look-a-like hooker under the street light. My 5 disc CD changer in the 4th grade had AC/DC Back in Black and 4 Guns N' Roses albums (G N' R Lies, Appetite for Destruction, and Use Your Illusion 1&2). From there the whole "Seattle Grunge" thing took off and I'd relate a lot of those bands to this same concept of "Real Life" or not ALL happy-go-lucky so to say. I listened to strictly "License to Ill" for almost all of 8th grade (about 7 years after the album was released), the rap thing was taking off and in high school I was very into the mainstream hardcore rap and the "Underground" Chicago gangster rap. Senior year I developed a taste for some "Heavy" rock when Disturbed released their first album. The next few years I was all about Led Zeppelin and The Doors. Moved to AZ and was introduced to some West-Coast "Underground" (The Alkaholiks, Defari, Hiero) and really started digging for new sounds. I found some East-Coast stuff I liked (Beatnuts mostly). When I returned to Chicago I met a friend who turned me onto the whole Indie scene (Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Mr. Lif, and more). I realized that these independent artists had a lot more heart in their music than almost anything I'd heard (with the exception of Led Zeppelin). They were passionate about their craft and toured non-stop to scrape by, most of them are still doing it 10 years later.

It's definitely not for everyone, just like my tolerance for the "Pretty" things. It's just not how the world is. It's the picture the media has painted for modern society. They are selling you what they told you to like. I dunno.

I do apologize for my blunt approach to trying to get a Hip-Hop discussion going amongst a majority of EDM fans, but at the same time I do feel some of this needs to be said to some of these bandwagon types.

I sound very white when I talk about this

Ofcourse.
My point was that DJing pre-dates hip-hop.
Pre-Dates Disco.
In fact, most of the new dance genres of the last 20 years have been created by DJs.

Did you read that interview? ...

...You can't delete me for talking about a genre which started the idea of a DJ.