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Daniel Lombraña

Deep question: lately I have felt that I don't belong anymore to anyplace in the sense of a movement. For me it has been always hip-hop and open source, my two crews where I actually see a fit in. However, years are passing and hip-hop has changed losing its roots (probably, because I'm getting older) and open-source stills important but it is not the same as it was in the beginning. This feeling could be because when I was younger I loved hip-hop because its deep roots with the streets and fight with the status quo. It was political, it said truths. Nowadays we don't pass from Drake and Kendrick fighting like two little kids. Don't get me wrong, it has been legendary, but I guess you get my point. The same goes with OSS. In the beginning it was fighting against the status quo of Microsoft and Apple. Nowadays, people embrace non-GPL licenses and we will never see the light of the Mach micro-kernel :D What do you think? Do you feel the same?

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the cold, artificial corpo commercialization comes to everything: it especially takes pleasure in commandeering what might've been originally rebellious cultures to package it back up into a trendy little commercial product to sell to the status-signaling performance-minded. see the pop-punk trend of the 90s-early 00s, the corpo fuckers took the 'stereotypical' punk sound and "polished" it for a wider audience. Now we have kidults from said era believing Green Day, Blink 182, Sum41, etc to be true punk, when they're hollow corporate astroturfed bullshit. You're seeing the same shit happen to hiphop, mumble rap, trap whatever you want to call any of it anymore. It's all a product, its all commercialization: no art to be found. Not punk, not hip-hop, not rebellious whatsoever, but simply another tame flavor of the status quo.

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