
Through the latter half of high school and the bulk of my undergrad I listened to hip-hop, almost exclusively. I progressively got out of it, I'm not exactly sure why, but probably because the artists I really liked - the mainstays of "conscious (which, I think is a retarded term) hip-hop" movement Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Blackalicous - just started putting out crap... or I got sick of their stuff... or whatever. Interestingly, the same sort of thing happened when I started to listen to bands like Death Cab, the Decemberists, so, maybe this says more about me [...]