hip-hop & Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

I've read some rather flowery claims here about hip-hop's political and
literary signficance, it's place in PoMo discourse, etc. Political content
aside, and for the moment ignorning whatever they might share in terms of
being part of a larger PoMo phenomenon, one big difference I see between
hip-hop music as practiced by Eminem and Pynchon's work -- Eminem is
unrelentingly commercial, while Pynchon elaborates his art with little
apparent attention to market realities.


"David Morris" re Eminem:
It's called entertainment.