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Once You Go Pop, Your Street Cred Drops
Once You Go Pop, Your Street Cred Drops
Once You Go Pop, Your Street Cred Drops
Describing their music and their own 'Buhloone Mindstate' on the 1993 album of the same name, De La Soul gave us the keep-it-real musical mantra “It might blow up, but it won’t go pop.” To the purist hip-hop community, the designation pop is an anathema. The assertion that an artist has compromised her or his artistic integrity and alienated their core audience in order to pander to a larger mains