Street credibility has lost its appeal. Like anything fashionable and consumer driven, the idea that one can manufacture authenticity by following some esoteric rule or adhering to some higher ethics of artistic moral durability is pretty zany. Inevitably, street cred is a consensus pick, something upon which some group has hung their collective hat. You gotta be kidding me with that stuff. Not that it doesn't exist, just that its no different from any other moral majority for which the parameters have been tweaked. Some will call them boring naysayers; others, arbiters of hope; others, brave iconoclasts. Its all in how you look at it, and as soon as you read about it online, hear about it at work or see it at the park, its a sham.
2 comments:
sham is a todd word. Always has been. street cred has never seemed so lame to me. is street cred kind of like having street smarts? I give it a little more credit if only because life on the streets is so hardcore that if you're bullshitting you will die painfully and it might involve a switchblade.
Yeah, well grumpy skepticism conjures mad street cred.
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