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First, let me say that a couple times today I took great joy in bumping the aformentioned "A Year And A Day" at top volume while thinking about the beatiful simplicity of its construction (drums from "Ebony Jam," guitar from "That Lady," scratches f…
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batmon said:One of the greatest voices in Hip Hop. Man, this was one of my first thoughts. If dude is not ground zero for that raspy flow, he's close. "Year And A Day," all day. Rest in peace.
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On every level that matters--its importance to people, how well it does its job, its overall quality (that is, percentage of good shit to percentage of bullshit), etc.--music is exactly what it used to be. The human culture that it flows from and in…
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DocMcCoy said:Batmon to speak on this? Like it or not, it's happenning. Meh. This is off-peak Mike, though; It's not like they're fucking with "Rock With You." My sub-question for batmon would be: In 2012, who are the people rid…
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While I'm a fan of the "Mustache Soul" enterprise (I, too, downloaded it back when--I rememeber having to use some shitty shareware to convert it from m4a to mp3, but it was still dope), I'd say that as genre (or at least as it's defined in Thes's m…
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Sween said:J i m s t e r said:Sween said:Murdock said:In like Flint In like Flynn. I'm from Long Island, we don't pronounce t's at the ends of words. The OG saying is "In like Flynn". (Presumably the noted ladies-man and got-a-match pu…
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Unherd said:Surprisingly great thread.
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SoulOnIce said:The Persuaders Honey mustard pretzels Love's Gonna Pack Up Strong. For me: Chi-Lites Old Fries (at the Uptown Lounge in Anderson--they fry 'em twice) "Go Away Dream" I was gonna maybe say Brothers O…
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djwaxon said:J i m s t e r said:Whole thing odd... holds a Narnia passport. Haha never heard that term before, nice British dudes own this shit, for real. "Narnia passport," "shops on the other side of the street"...I remember a w…
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edpowers said:batmon said:im not fuckin with the book but a friend was like "why u hattin? U aint even read it?" Bitch u aint gonna get no man with that shit. Im sure there are some entertaining elements to that shit. I had at l…
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RAJ said:He lost me when he put out that Hyphy (sp?) record. You know what, that record was ultimately not for me, but I'm not mad at it. When it came out, I read some interview with him where he talked about his kids and about having a lengthy da…
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pickwick33 said:So somebody other than me actually likes the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils? Well, I've got good news and bad news: The bad news is that it turns out that I was mis-remembering: the late-night go-to in question was actually just The R…
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I posted about this some time ago and so will spare you the details, but in a single public-pool afternoon sometime back in the late seventies I heard for the first time both "Dreams" and Steely Dan's "Do It Again." That was a serious day. One that …
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Man, I really don't care for this at all. There doesn't seem to be any real foundation to the sound or the voice. It comes off mostly as a collection of tics and textures and a bingo card's worth of roots/soul/realness signifiers, put across …
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bushwick bill said:that brought tears to my eye!
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I'll be That Guy. The first half of this is pure gold. Anybody who knows a bright kid will immediately recognize that kind of mania--the kind that kids get after they start romaticizing the adult world, and after they begin to understand that…
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Horseleech said:batmon said:My dick is private. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll meet that Special Someone one of these days! Frankie Ford (pointing dejectedly at his crotch): "It's like Australia: everybody talks about it, but nobody goes there…
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"Sub Crazy" is sorta drumless.
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HarveyCanal said: Oh shit. You know, when I first saw this back when it came out, though I was a little familiar with Jay Dee's name and his work, this video was the first place I actually saw him, and thus first kinda put together my formative …
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DJ_Enki said:"Rock that music" "What time is it?" (at 2:16)
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Big_Stacks said:What are you listening to this Saturday afternoon? I'm getting ready to make some sauce, so I went down to basement storage to bring up some canned goods (when I was a kid, I used to have a little thing for the Contadina lady--real…
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You might be thinking of the RapPages DJ Issue. It's from '96, has Primo on the cover, and has the running footer you describe.
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Jonny_Paycheck said:If anyone wants to come film 5 minute vignettes of my lame attempts at humor and endorsements of totally mundane records that I listen to on a regular basis, I'm always down. What's your policy regarding nudity? I might know so…
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DocMcCoy said:Bobbito's Soundcheck Oh, man. A key influence on late-teen james. I actually bought (at retail!) every issue of the first several years of Vibe, and though I've long since jettisoned most of them, somewhere I have a bulging accordion…
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I'd choose dinner with Gene Russell. We could talk about how I thought he was dead.
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batmon said:crabmongerfunk said:i think we discussed this a couple of weeks back...horrible title though, especilly given that it is put together by white dudes and will mostly be purchased by other white dudes.. White dudes love that shit. …
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J i m s t e r said:Have you, or anyone you know, committed an X Offence? For a little while in the early nineties, I regualrly rocked a Malcolm X "By Any Means Necessary" shirt (with my wobbly teenage paunch making it seem as though Malcolm was pe…
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batmon said:Stinky Bedroom Rap See also: Olde-English-Labels-All-On-Your-Bedroom-Wall Rap
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JRoot said:America will forgive even the most grievous errors in judgment as long as the artist subsequently releases some bangers (see R. Kelly). I'll be interested to see whether America's perspective is different when both abuser and abused are…
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white_tea said:I sincerely regret skipping out on the Watch the Throne tour, almost solely for the fact of their never-ending rewinds of "N*ggas in Paris." ... You just don't hear about that level of bravado playfulness at concerts. My dad tells m…