When I think of hip hop as being "decadent" often times I'd think of the more horrorcore types, rather than your run of the mill typical hip hop artists whom straddle the lines of hip hop/gangsta rap music. Something like Insane Clown Posse, straight away comes to mind as "decadent", more so than any hip hop or gangsta rap peoples that MTV sharted out once upon a time in 1997 and went into the ether never to be mentioned again. I'd say ICP would make a lot more sense in this topic, specifically speaking about rap music and much like Marilyn Manson like some previously mentioned, simply for the sake of it's decadent behaviors and the fact it got some mention in mainstream notoriety. The large hosted event, known as the Gathering Of The Juggalos event... from what I've heard or "gathered" is the most destructive, decadent, and fucked up festival around. Lots of actual whoredom, violence, ect. Seems to host much filth from the spectators as much as the preformers, by far from anything I've heard that's been highlighted in the mainstream world, if and when we are talking about big time events that is. I know some people will say, but ICP is underground shit, so that doesn't count... I'd say no way! If your shirts sell in a Hot Topic retail store, you're the epitome of mainstream and thus mainstream decadence! When you got other mainstream rappers like Method Man and Redman preforming at your festival and they get littered with broken bottles, rocks and the trailer park meth head juggalos calling them niggers... what's more decadent leaning than that in a mainstream type of setting?
