"true hip-hop"
HarveyCanal
"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
As I keep a somewhat-reluctant eye on what the Austin Chronicle has been doing with their rap coverage since I left...no mention whatsoever of Big Moe's passing gets the gasface...I see that they're veering away from local Texas-raised rap in favor of a more generic model. 5 brief reviews in, and the new dude has already pulled the "true hip-hop" card...
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A5542219th WonderThe Dream Merchant, Vol. 2 (6 Hole)Proving that beats matter as much as what rappers spit, 9th Wonder's solo debut plays out like the work of his teachers. Cutting away from Little Brother in January, the North Carolina native channels past masters Pete Rock and DJ Premier, sampling Motown, settling into feel-good grooves, and bringing in an ample supporting cast to handle the mic (Mos Def, Saigon, Jean Grae, Royce da 5'9"). Their words serve as backdrop for the production 9th cooks up, Dream Merchant flowing with beat after head-banging beat of the grimy ("Let It Bang"), soulful ("Saved"), and the classic ("Reminisce") sounds of true hip-hop. Then there's the Primo-inspired "Brooklyn in My Mind," a track so hot that even the featured Memphis Bleek sounds like a wordsmith. Lessons learned, the world's 9th Wonder has come into his own.****
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But more importantly,
in a HUGE way.
Yeah, at least we did it big while we had the chance...
While I agree with your larger points, let's be serious, if only for a moment: there is nothing even somewhat "reluctant" about your compulsion to read your successor's writing.
Stuck in "The Golden Era"...........
First and foremost, it comes from me quietly pulling for him to lend coverage to releases by Black Mike (nope), VIP (nope), UGK (yep), Chingo Bling (nope), Chamillionaire (yep), Trae (hopefully), etc.
But now that I see that his heart pumps caramel, I'm not so sure I want him to tinge any coverage he does give to said type of music with not-so-underlying intentions of subordinating it to the gaud's of Scion-hop.
I've never heard this phrase before, but I like it.
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Wowzers.
its no ladybug
but those speaker greekcolumns
easily could have been left out
Why do all the "true hip hop" artists have the worst taste in cover design?
This is partly why I had to stop writing reviews- they all end up sounding cornball, even good writers fall into the same format, I hate reading reviews and I hated writing reviews- I'd rather write academic lit reviews (kinda).
to reflect their musical endeavors?
Yes, that's right...when "Planet Rock" went big worldwide, Bambaataa started thinking of himself as a leader of "commercial hip-hop-jiving zombies".
Yes, that's right..a hip-hop dinosaur who hasn't been part of a relevant song in over 20 years is touching down in Texas just to show us lost local savages how it's really done.
Yes, that's right...rap is something you do, hip-hop is something you live.
Heart of a Milk Dud-related.
You should be mad at Thomas Fawcett for writing that tripe, dude.
Not mad, just annoyed.
fire dancers? yo...
jiving? word?
but isn't this saying that he is fighting against the commercialized hip hop jiving zombies?
and why do you feel thats a jab at you and your tx brethren?
bambaataa live is something to behold. granted he plays with sirotto and plays a premixed bag of party standards (and you'll hear "think" more times than should be allowed) and maybe i'm biased because i had a cutie wrapped around me last time i saw him, but still, i loved seeing him rock a party. he's actually playing here on saturday and i will be there after my set...
and 9th wonder is waaaaaaaaay overated.
Some of y'all might not be reading me right as my initial Bambaataa-related post was 100% sarcasm.
Bambaataa is definitely a hero to me and I'll be swinging through to check him out tomorrow night.
I just don't appreciate the use of a unifying figure such as Bam as a window to slip in yet another shot at the supposedly "brainwashed" core rap audience.
Carpetbageurs. Don't they have a game that night?
but why would you be mad if a reviewer decides to review somethin that is not texas related
if i was a reviewer out here in miami i would not be reviewing all the bullshit that comes from out of this city's horrible music scene let alone other florida rap releases.
you ride a little too hard for texas. its not even funny
I got hip-no-tized by your avatar. What were you saying?
It's not that he just chose to review a non-TX cd. It's that he can't help himself himself from taking potshots at the predominant local style as he's reviewing a non-TX cd.
As far as riding too hard for Texas...there's no such thing.
You must have seen a different Bambaataa than I saw back in the 90's. That shit sucked. A bunch of drum n bass & techno bullshit. Maybe he was playing the cream of the crop drum n bass and techno and I am just "disconnected"..but I went to see him expecting something a little different. B-boys dancing to techno is beyond wack.
i did, in fact, see a different bam. i saw him in the 90s too and was hugely disappointed. he played the same drum and bass and techno crap that made me want to puke. i have a new found respect for that kind of music, but i really wanted to hear the master of records blow my mind. i don't even think he mixed on beat! when i saw him in january of this year though, it was a different story. didn't drop crazy breaks on me that i had never heard, but at least he rocked the party.
i am listening to some songs on windows media player at work here and just noticed this cover is like one of those anuimated music backgrounds that are displayed when the music plays
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