When I
was growing up my musical education was based on the Golden Era of
Hip Hop. My ears were dominated by such lumnaries as Biggie Smalls,
Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, The Gang
Starr Foundation, The Likwit Crew.... I could go on. Yet that didn't
stop me from expanding my musical horizons. On the contrary, by the
very nature of its construction Hip Hop music encourages any listener
with even the slightest inclination, to give themselves a musical
history lesson simply by reading (and by consequence investigating)
the sample credits of albums released by the artists I have just
listed. But even with this in mind should those that cried ignorance
on twitter in the last few days really be upset by the teens and
tweens lack of 'Beatletastic' knowledge?
