| Re: "Annual critics’ picks: Fast Forward music writers vote on the best albums of the year," Cover, December 29 — January 4, 2006.
I'd like to commend writer Timothy Heck for his observation that, for far too long, "guitar-wielding male Anglo-American youth culture" has dominated music and popular culture in general, and for his insight that "the dogged persistence of this view" is indeed "increasingly puzzling."
It is even more puzzling, though, that fellow Fast Forward writer Ashley Ingoldsby hasn't also subscribed to a similar point of view. Her comment that Kayne West's "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" is the "only reason God allows rap to exist" is both dismissive and ignorant. If Ingoldsby could only take more direction from Heck's comment, perhaps she, too, will understand why rap, and hip hop, have been the most influential art form of the past 25 years, if not longer.
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