The Player Hater And The Death Of Hip-Hop Journalism

[Dr Doom]

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-pla...op-journalism/

[KTULU]

Malice Intended is clearly just a hater. If he wasn't, then why would he write this hateful article? Get money, *****.

[Malice Intended]

Malice Intended is clearly just a hater. If he wasn't, then why would he write this hateful article? Get money, *****.

"No offense to a player, but yo, I don't play
And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way"
-Posdnuos from "Stakes is High"