Cue the hipster rap backlash

Today, over at Unkut, you can vote for the biggest douchebag in hipster rap. Your choices include the Cool Kids, Kanye West, Kid Sister, M.I.A., Lil' Mama, Lupe Fiasco, Kidz in the Hall, N*E*R*D, and all of the above.

Out of that list, I'm not really sure who I'd roll with. If there had been an option for Santogold, I would've gone with Santogold. All of the above is a tempting option, but it seems like a bit of a cop-out.

Kanye West is easily the biggest douchebag on the list, but at least there's a market case to be made for his recording career. Some of these other people? Not so much. For example, I read just now that the Cool Kids' Bake Sale EP only sold 4,300 copies its first week out. If that's the extent of their popularity, why are we always hearing about the Cool Kids? I'm not convinced that I couldn't put out an album and sell more copies than that. Shit, I'm famous on the Internets. Where's my feature in Spin magazine?

Kid Sister would be another tempting option, just because - why lie - I'm a bit of a sexist. It's hard to make a case to me that there needs to be any female rappers in general, unless their lyrics are ghostwritten by the Notorious B.I.G. and they all have to do with sucking a guy's dick for some money. But that Kid Sister record actually kinda cranks, in a Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait" sort of way. ('90s babies, step your game up.)

So if I had to pick just one, based on the criteria of utter douchebaggery and sheer lack of talent, I'd probably roll with M.I.A.

Checkit: The Search For The Biggest Douchebag In Hipster Rap [Unkut]

And elsewhere, I see one of the guys from Oh Word has launched another one of their racially confused, boom bap dinosaur missives - this time against, you guessed it, hipster rap. In particular, it takes issue with Tom Breihan's review of the Cool Kids record for Pitchfork and his suggestion that the term hispster rap is meaningless.

Checkit: It takes a Nation of Haircuts to Hold Us Back [Oh Word]