DocMcCoy
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"Go and laugh in your own country!"
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The Getdown (birth of hiphop/Netflix-R)
"Hyper-stylised" is Luhrmann's USP, and he's hardly a marginal film-maker, so there's no excuse for anyone to go into this blind. Caveat emptor, and all that.
For real, though, if I watch this at all, it'll be so I can at least slag it off from a halfway informed point of view. The hip-hop nostalgia industry can't go and fuck itself quickly enough as far as I'm concerned
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R.I.P. The Boss In London
This is unlikely to mean an awful lot to more than a handful of the Brits posting on here, but Mike Allen a/k/a The Boss In London died early last month after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. Before the likes of Westwood or Dave Pearce in London or Stu Allan in the North-West, Mike Allen was the first radio DJ to properly get behind hip-hop in the UK - he pretty much broke The Show, for example, with his support directly leading to it becoming a massive pop hit - and his rep spread way beyond the reach of Capital Radio. Whenever I was visiting mates down south in the mid-80s, I always took a pack of blank tapes with me so I could dub a few Mike Allen shows. Later in the 80s he went on to host National Fresh, the first-ever syndicated hip-hop radio show in the UK, but probably his finest hour came with UK Fresh '86, which was at that point the biggest live hip-hop event that had ever taken place outside the US. Take a look at that line-up. Despite the heavy Capital Radio branding on the flyer, he pretty much promoted the entire event himself alongside Morgan Khan of Streetsounds fame/notoriety (they even used his rig!), at a time when the idea of something as underground as a hip-hop show filling Wembley Arena seemed preposterous.
There's a pretty thorough fan page here, which unfortunately doesn't seem to have much audio, but which might still give some of you a sense of what he did and when he was doing it. As far as the UK was concerned, Mike Allen was one of the gatekeepers - possibly the gatekeeper - for so many of us in the early days of hip-hop, and a true pioneer. RIP.
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NO CLIFF HUXTABLE THREAD?
crabmongerfunk said:dubious
What's dubious is that nobody bothered to listen to any of these women until Hannibal Buress - a man - publicly outed Cos as a serial rapist.
As Ta-Nehisi Coates points out here, none of these crimes can be prosecuted, none of the victims are bringing civil suits and no damages are being sought. So what's their motive for speaking out now? Are they part of a conspiracy to destroy the black man in America, as claimed by Lord Jamar and sundry other tinfoil-hat/Grandpa Simpson rappers? Are they doing it for "publicity"? After all, we've all seen the positive results women get when they decide speak out publicly against or otherwise attempt to shame famous, prominent men. Or could it simply be that they're actually telling the truth and, as was the case in the post-Savile UK, all it needed was someone to finally go public for the floodgates to open concerning a catalogue of abuse that Coates claims to have been aware of as long ago as 2006?
And no shots or anything, but because of the strong likelihood of this thread degenerating into a classic SS cavalcade of bad looks, I'm going to leave it at that.
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Gunman vs Shooter
PatrickCrazy said:great job sparking a gun control debate when the kids arent even in the ground yet. quality work guys, you've really outdone yourselves
Waiting until the kids are in the ground is kind of the problem here, wouldn't you say?
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break/sample mixes
so i was listening to all my gangstarr records (for obvious reasons) and I was remembering the time when I went to the Gangstarr-Moment of Truth in-store at Fat Beats. I went up to primo and guru and asked for a drop for On Track volume 2 cassette. I remember them just being excited and giving a dope drop that set off that volume for kon and i. now this was after the whole interlude with primo going at break/sample cats, so initially I was maaaad nervous about asking for the drop but all was good. years later I spoke to primo about it and he said i loved the fact that we didn't list the records on our volumes.
Throughout the years, mad people used to shit on our tapes because we would not list the records we used. So my question is does having a list of the records really make a better mix or not? I am feel that it doesn't and I stick by what we did.
RIP to my fellow four cornerz brother GURU!
amir
The music is all-important. If a DJ wants to provide a tracklist, then I'm not mad at that at all. I'll admit to finding it a little frustrating when a mix is all super-obscure heat I don't know, but trying to ID shit then becomes part of the fun. I copped Muro's very first King Of Diggin' tape in Fat Beats in '98 and took it into work with me when I got back to London. I hadn't really heard too many straight-up break tapes at that time and, although nothing on that tape is a mystery now, some of it seemed pretty obscure back then. Anyway, a whole bunch of the guys in the office did rubs of it, and we bumped the shit out of it for months. Between us we set about ID'ing every track, and one guy did a spreadsheet so we could cross-reference the o.g's to the songs that sampled them. Incredibly nerdy stuff, I realise, but it was a good laugh.
