Pitchfork discusses new rapper RAWKAN
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stole this bit from okpluurr.http://pitchforkmedia.com/tracks/05-03-29.shtml#song3I>Joe Budden, B>Rawkan/B>, Oschino,Sparks, and Peedi Crack: "Triumph Remix"genre: hip-hopOn 1997's Wu-Tang Forever, "Triumph" was our last chance to hear the fully assembled Wu-Tang Clan, all nine members plus Cappadonna, absolutely wrecking an eerie, swirling RZA banger. Every last Wu member brought ridiculous fire to "Triumph"; the track marks the last moment when it seemed like the Clan ran hip-hop before it splintered into a million underwhelming solo projects and petty feuds.Roc-A-Fella Records was the undisputable number-one brand in rap a couple of years ago. But now that Jay's left the studio for the front office and Damon Dash has announced vague plans to start his own label called Roc-4-Life, many of the label's supporting players face uncertain futures. So when a motley collection of former Roc D-teamers assemble to reassure us that they still run shit, it's impossible not to catch flashbacks of Wu-Tang's sad dissolution. Except that none of these guys have anything like the knife-edge gravity that the Wu had in 1997. Joe Budden, two years removed from his one hit, warns us: "Anybody let the milli spray by us/ Could get a ache in your heart like Billy Ray Cyrus". B>Rawkan, who I've never even heard of/B>, says something about slashing the Vatican. Oschino (or Sparks?) lets us know that he's "trying to m??nage with Serena and Venus". The whole exercise remains sad and pointless until the end of the track when Peedi Crack's anarchic Bugs Bunny flow rolls through and saves the day. If Dash ever manages to get Roc-4-Life off the ground, he needs to build it around this guy. [Tom Breihan] /I>for those unaware, B>RAEKWON/B> appears on this song.
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i take it the computer hasnt shown up yet?
it should also be noted that neither oschino nor sparks spit this line, but young chris.
odds are this guy was at a pavement concert when 'forever' came out.
I'm gonna barf.
yeah but this young gunz review always cracked me up.
ehhh... that's exactly the kind of bullshit hipster pandering/ignorance that is wrong with that site.
- ironically intelligent/artistic (dance institute) display from thought to be ignorant thug rappers? check
- perpetuation of the idea that "gangsta" rap is manufactured by exceutives and done exclusively for the money (more so than any other genre of music)? check
- name drop of common and mos def? check
- displaying a knowledge of hip hop limited to the afformentioned artists and the last nas record? check
- no mention of the actual quality of the music (paging fatback)
Comsidering rap isn't my game, this is pretty good. Or maybe I'm just really bored right now.
scarilly on point as far as everything that site is doing wrong
Good indictment
Very funny stuff
fired from writing reviews for free?
I have no defense for the Oschino/Sparks/Young Chris misidentification, except to say I could not ID any of those cats on a verse.
If you want to ask dude, he's not hard to find: www.dipdipdive.blogspot.com. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he lurked here too.
I mean, I HATE PITCHFORK!!! ALL THE TIME!!!
that's a little far to go for an inside joke, no? although that would be in line with the pitchfork mentality.
i mean, i don't expect anybody to be perfect, far from it, dude made a stupid error, we all have. but i think it's indictive of the pitchfork staff as a whole that someone somewhere down the editing line (not that i expect it to be that intense) wasn't just like "dude... that's raekwon".
i feel like hip hop is such an insular style of music that it's hard to adequtely critique it without having at least some sort of attachment to the culture. and much of the pitchfork staff appear to be outsiders. and this (as well as that young gunz review) is a reflection of that
but if you're writing about their record why not just fact check and get it right. you can throw on any mixtape where they're solo and compare voices. that takes five minutes. it's not like these guys came out of nowhere (like RAWKAN did), they have substantial enough of backcatalog to figure out who they are.
or was that another joke? that all second string state prop rappers sound alike. if so that could've been articulated better.
i did not know that it was the same tom. in all fairness, i've looked at his blog in the past and he seems to have his head on straight. but aligning himself with the knownots at pitchfork and making 'jokes'/errors like this probably isn't doing wonders for his credibility.
Ever since then, I realized, they are all stupid.
-e