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DocMcCoy

DocMcCoy

"Go and laugh in your own country!"

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  • Rap You're Liking

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    ketan

  • TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM

    DocMcCoyDocMcCoy
    Mornin', troops.

    If someone had said to me twenty years ago that Leicester would win the title before LFC won it again, I'd have wept with laughter. If I'm laughing at anything at all tomorrow, it'll be the thought of a packed OT gazing helplessly on as Leicester take the Premiership home with them. That'll be a nice little sweetener after six months of being patronised by fans of so-called big clubs, I'm sure.

    Speaking of so-called big clubs, only Spurs could finish above Arsenal, Chelsea, Ciddy and Yanited and still not win the league.

    Anyway, it matters not. We're coming for everyone next season. Everyone. Empty your pockets because you're getting rinsed. If it's not nailed down, we're nicking it. Telly, stereo, dog, wife, kids, the lot. Quote me.

    JFT96.
    discos_almaskelDuderonomy

  • Looking For: Mp3s of Lewis Taylor Albums

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    What have you got so far, Raj? If Jimster and CBear have come through with Stoned and Lewis II, I can probably cover the rest at some point tomorrow. I also have a folder of b-sides, alternate mixes and sundry other loosies on a drive somewhere, as well as his abandoned Trout Mask Replica cover project, all of which I'll happily zip up for you too, if you like? Some good stuff amongst that lot.
    Jimster

  • The Getdown (birth of hiphop/Netflix-R)

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    "Hyper-stylised" is Luhrmann's USP, and he's hardly a marginal film-maker, so there's no excuse for anyone to go into this blind. Caveat emptor, and all that.

    For real, though, if I watch this at all, it'll be so I can at least slag it off from a halfway informed point of view. The hip-hop nostalgia industry can't go and fuck itself quickly enough as far as I'm concerned
    batmon

  • R.I.P. The Boss In London

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    This is unlikely to mean an awful lot to more than a handful of the Brits posting on here, but Mike Allen a/k/a The Boss In London died early last month after a long struggle with Alzheimer's. Before the likes of Westwood or Dave Pearce in London or Stu Allan in the North-West, Mike Allen was the first radio DJ to properly get behind hip-hop in the UK - he pretty much broke The Show, for example, with his support directly leading to it becoming a massive pop hit - and his rep spread way beyond the reach of Capital Radio. Whenever I was visiting mates down south in the mid-80s, I always took a pack of blank tapes with me so I could dub a few Mike Allen shows. Later in the 80s he went on to host National Fresh, the first-ever syndicated hip-hop radio show in the UK, but probably his finest hour came with UK Fresh '86, which was at that point the biggest live hip-hop event that had ever taken place outside the US. Take a look at that line-up. Despite the heavy Capital Radio branding on the flyer, he pretty much promoted the entire event himself alongside Morgan Khan of Streetsounds fame/notoriety (they even used his rig!), at a time when the idea of something as underground as a hip-hop show filling Wembley Arena seemed preposterous.

    There's a pretty thorough fan page here, which unfortunately doesn't seem to have much audio, but which might still give some of you a sense of what he did and when he was doing it. As far as the UK was concerned, Mike Allen was one of the gatekeepers - possibly the gatekeeper - for so many of us in the early days of hip-hop, and a true pioneer. RIP.

    DuderonomyketanJimster