hip-hop
also referred to as: hip hop
6 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ben Horowitz · across every show →
Everything said about hip-hop, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Horowitz: Hip-hop is uniquely capitalistic and a perfect analog to entrepreneurship
“And it's very specific to hip hop for me and hip hop is an unusual music form in that it's a very Kind of capitalistic form of music, which is completely kind of unheard of in popular music in that the main theme of hip hop, if you go through all the great rap…”
Sep 2, 2019
Dapper Dan: Hip hop will eventually morph into a new platform
“Now, you know, every 20 or 30 something years, we get a powerful cultural platform. You know, we've had jazz, calypso, Rock and roll. All these powerful platforms by which the whole world embraces our music that we can take advantage of, but they don't last fo…”
Jun 13, 2023
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Horowitz: AI music reanimation won't stifle creativity, similar to hip-hop sampling
“I don't think so because you know, like, look, if you don't have a new novel way to do something or create art, then sure, that's going to be better than what you do. But like, if you look at hip hop, You know, they kind of brought James Brown back to life you…”
Jun 6, 2025 bearish
Anish Acharya: AI models cannot invent new musical genres like hip-hop
“If you trained, you know, a model with all the music, you know, up until, but just prior to hip hop, would it, like, infer hip hop? I don't think so, because music is the intersection of past music and culture is critical to it. So you sort of need something t…”
Oct 31, 2025 positive
Horowitz: AI is a fantastic creative tool for hip-hop artists
“Particularly the hip-hop guys are interested because it's almost like a replay of what they did, right? They just took other music, and they kind of built new music out of it, and I think that, you know, AI is A fantastic creative tool for them. It, like, way …”