Dr Doom
06-07-2011, 05:58 PM
By Malice Intended
The Bay Area is known for contributing numerous slang and concepts to the Hip-Hop lexicon. Perhaps the most enduring is the “player hater.” The term describes one who is so jealous of another’s success that they refuse to congratulate or acknowledge that success, even going so far as to try to halt it. He hates what he can’t be, and tears down what he himself could never hope to achieve. In the last decade and a half, the hater has slowly made his way to Hip-Hop’s center stage. The problem is that haters have become so prevalent that their influence has robbed both Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop journalism of any perspective or potency.[...]
Read on: http://planetill.com/2011/06/the-player-hater-and-the-death-of-hip-hop-journalism/
The Bay Area is known for contributing numerous slang and concepts to the Hip-Hop lexicon. Perhaps the most enduring is the “player hater.” The term describes one who is so jealous of another’s success that they refuse to congratulate or acknowledge that success, even going so far as to try to halt it. He hates what he can’t be, and tears down what he himself could never hope to achieve. In the last decade and a half, the hater has slowly made his way to Hip-Hop’s center stage. The problem is that haters have become so prevalent that their influence has robbed both Hip-Hop and Hip-Hop journalism of any perspective or potency.[...]
Read on: http://planetill.com/2011/06/the-player-hater-and-the-death-of-hip-hop-journalism/