 Hip-hop is dopnology, the only known antidote for primetime sensory deprivation. There's no such thing as alternative hip-hop because the only alternative to hip-hop is dead silence, and we all know such silence signifies a lack of breath. There's no such thing as good hip-hop and bad hip-hop, progressive hip-hop and reactionary hip-hop, politically incorrect hip-hop and hip-hop with a message. It's either hip-hop or it ain't.