NPR Intern Wiener Listens to Public Enemy for First Time, Is A Fucking Idiot...
…wrath of rap internet descends, Questlove schools him in the comments.
Hi, music world, it’s a REALLY BAD LOOK when you defend your sacred cows in this reactionary, kneejerk manner. Every “classic album” should be eviscerated by a 19-year-old intern to whom it means nothing.Yes.
Hello people my age: it is not the job of 19 year olds to validate our youth.
Thank you! I have been seeing a whole lot of outrage about this from writers who fancy themselves big, bad, brutally honest contrarians, but guess what? They’ve become part of the same music-critic establishment as Rolling Stone and its increasingly indefensible Baby Boomer supremacy program. Whether you agree with the article / think it’s well written or not, if you believe that some artists and albums are above reproach, you’re becoming a reactionary. You got to kill the previous generations’ idols; young people (who are, you know, disproportionately under-employed and practically working as slaves to media elders such as yourselves) will never make their own world until they stop worshiping the past and do the same.
