Duderonomy

• Couple of track IDs (halp nedded)

  Duderonomy

  October 2021
  The first one has been bugging me for a while. Before I left England in 2014 I was digitising my vinyl collection at a rate of knots and often failed to accurately take note of track titles. So I've got this, which I know think is an Axelrod, but all of my youtube research turns up nothing. Knowing that there's been many decent remasters released I'd like to mint-up, but have no idea of what this is:
  
  
  https://soundcloud.com/1-hand-clapping/david-axelrod
  
  Second, I remember that a Numero comp released the instrumental to Syl Johnson's Is It Because I'm Black under it's OG name (ie a different band and title). With the sheer volume of Numero comps out there, is anyone able to save me some time and tell me what I'm looking for here?

  

• New Music / Release Thread

  Duderonomy

  October 2021
  <iframe style="border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1227805636/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://bloto.bandcamp.com/album/kwasy-i-zasady">Kwasy i zasady by Błoto</a></iframe>
  
  https://bloto.bandcamp.com/
  

  

• Article: the message; why should hip-hop have to teach us anything?

  Duderonomy

  October 2021
  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/07/the-message-why-should-hip-hop-have-to-teach-us-anything

  
  

  I agree that it shouldn’t, but disagree that this was the main schism.
  
  Conscious rap might be the terminology, but what the so-called back-pack fans were harking after (at least on this board) was substance, personality and decent music. Cypress Hill never (IIRC) preached anything conscious, and most rap from the golden age wasn’t comparable to Public Enemy. I don’t know if there was a clamour within the black American community for more militant and “conscious” themes, I just wanted something listenable while some fellow Strutteurs were telling me I was at fault for not appreciating ‘Lemonade’ by Gucci Mane etc etc.
  
  Would love for some Strutters to crawl out of the woodwork and continue to beef it out over not being down with the kids, but if it isn’t clear by now that mainstream rap long ago became pop (instead of art), I don’t know what is. Which brings me to the author’s final assertion in defence of Kanye West. I just don’t buy it. Kanye is a clever marketer, but I don’t consider him to be (any more) even a musical talent personally, and his cozying up to Trump? West in a nutshell.

  

• Rap You're Liking

  Duderonomy

  October 2021

  klezmer electro-thug beats said:

  tyler and lil wayne on a madlib/edan etc style back pack beat. I don't always like wayne but he's doing good features recently apparently
  

  Bonus points for telling people where Geneva is 

  

• DJ Premier on Come Clean

  Duderonomy

  August 2021
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVLYxm21Q4s