OK guys, I will use some of these questions, if you got more nerd questions please feel free to inform me, the obvoius ones I know already, give me the nerd questions.
There were a few serious ones in mine. As for the "nerd" questions, you can wait for the exclusive DJ Shadow pamphlets that I will be passing out at airports.
Wait, if pamphlets can give you paper cuts, that might be considered a weapon.
Be aware, he doesn't like press runs in Europe. One time he was having a breakdown because he couldn't stand talking about himself for hours. Ask him about his favourite German Break, and if it would be CAN or Kraftwerk for him, ha!
We???ll start with the one that is most likely to ellicit a glazed-over, bemused expression from me: Q: ??? DOES HIP-HOP STILL SUCK IN 2006???? A: Er, no, I think there???s a lot of good hip-hop this year, as with any other year. The song title you???re referring to, from Endtroducing, was intended as a tongue-in-cheek way to address pressures within the hip-hop community which I don???t feel even exist anymore, namely ???underground rap??? vs. ???commercial rap.??? Some people thought I was trying to diss G-Funk because of the type of loop that was used, when actually I just thought it was a dope loop. I had wanted to do something more with it, but never got around to it. In any case, I think the real issue was that a lot of non rap-loving types, including a lot of music critics, took it as a way to say ???yeah, see, here???s someone credible from the scene who doesn???t like rap either. Now it???s okay to say that hip-hop sucks.??? I guess they added that with the fact that the album was instrumental and decided that I really didn???t like rap, which to me was a pretty simple-minded conclusion. The fact that this question has come up in interview after interview, from year to year, tells me that either it was a really evocative song title, or that I need to be more careful about attempting wry humor in a musical context.
Ask him what is his favourite "guilty pleasure" song is, one that he really loves but can't admit. It has to be a horrible song or he's a lying son of a B.
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There were a few serious ones in mine. As for the "nerd" questions, you can wait for the exclusive DJ Shadow pamphlets that I will be passing out at airports.
Wait, if pamphlets can give you paper cuts, that might be considered a weapon.
Nevermind.
Peace
Hawkeye
From http://www.djshadow.com/digest/:
We???ll start with the one that is most likely to ellicit a glazed-over, bemused expression from me:
Q: ??? DOES HIP-HOP STILL SUCK IN 2006????
A: Er, no, I think there???s a lot of good hip-hop this year, as with any other year. The song title you???re referring to, from Endtroducing, was intended as a tongue-in-cheek way to address pressures within the hip-hop community which I don???t feel even exist anymore, namely ???underground rap??? vs. ???commercial rap.??? Some people thought I was trying to diss G-Funk because of the type of loop that was used, when actually I just thought it was a dope loop. I had wanted to do something more with it, but never got around to it. In any case, I think the real issue was that a lot of non rap-loving types, including a lot of music critics, took it as a way to say ???yeah, see, here???s someone credible from the scene who doesn???t like rap either. Now it???s okay to say that hip-hop sucks.??? I guess they added that with the fact that the album was instrumental and decided that I really didn???t like rap, which to me was a pretty simple-minded conclusion.
The fact that this question has come up in interview after interview, from year to year, tells me that either it was a really evocative song title, or that I need to be more careful about attempting wry humor in a musical context.