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DocMcCoy

DocMcCoy

"Go and laugh in your own country!"

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  • NO CLIFF HUXTABLE THREAD?

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    crabmongerfunk said:
    dubious

    What's dubious is that nobody bothered to listen to any of these women until Hannibal Buress - a man - publicly outed Cos as a serial rapist.

    As Ta-Nehisi Coates points out here, none of these crimes can be prosecuted, none of the victims are bringing civil suits and no damages are being sought. So what's their motive for speaking out now? Are they part of a conspiracy to destroy the black man in America, as claimed by Lord Jamar and sundry other tinfoil-hat/Grandpa Simpson rappers? Are they doing it for "publicity"? After all, we've all seen the positive results women get when they decide speak out publicly against or otherwise attempt to shame famous, prominent men. Or could it simply be that they're actually telling the truth and, as was the case in the post-Savile UK, all it needed was someone to finally go public for the floodgates to open concerning a catalogue of abuse that Coates claims to have been aware of as long ago as 2006?

    And no shots or anything, but because of the strong likelihood of this thread degenerating into a classic SS cavalcade of bad looks, I'm going to leave it at that.
    LaserWolf

  • Gunman vs Shooter

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    PatrickCrazy said:
    great job sparking a gun control debate when the kids arent even in the ground yet. quality work guys, you've really outdone yourselves

    Waiting until the kids are in the ground is kind of the problem here, wouldn't you say?
    kicks79

  • Which Dead Musician Had The Biggest Future Ahead Of Them?

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    It's pretty fair to say Aaliyah had already changed the game, inasmuch as she'd proved that female r&b singers didn't need to have big, churchy voices in order to make powerful music. I still think she was maybe one more album away from completely transcending the widely-held but erroneous notion that she was just a vessel for Missy and Timbo's genius, but for me she was easily the most influential r&b singer of her generation at the time of her death. She was only ever going to get better.

    I disagree that Nick Drake had a particularly bright future ahead of him, though. Part of the reason he wasn't successful at the time was down to his temperament. His natural constituency, the folk circuit, was used to - and was more inclined to support - those artists who engaged an audience, who could talk to them between songs while they retuned their guitars. Because Drake couldn't or wouldn't do this (unlike many lesser talents), he was unable to establish himself as a live performer, and his records subsequently sold less and less. I have my doubts as to how much that would have changed had he lived.
    ketan

  • break/sample mixes

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    so i was listening to all my gangstarr records (for obvious reasons) and I was remembering the time when I went to the Gangstarr-Moment of Truth in-store at Fat Beats. I went up to primo and guru and asked for a drop for On Track volume 2 cassette. I remember them just being excited and giving a dope drop that set off that volume for kon and i. now this was after the whole interlude with primo going at break/sample cats, so initially I was maaaad nervous about asking for the drop but all was good. years later I spoke to primo about it and he said i loved the fact that we didn't list the records on our volumes.

    Throughout the years, mad people used to shit on our tapes because we would not list the records we used. So my question is does having a list of the records really make a better mix or not? I am feel that it doesn't and I stick by what we did.

    RIP to my fellow four cornerz brother GURU!

    amir

    The music is all-important. If a DJ wants to provide a tracklist, then I'm not mad at that at all. I'll admit to finding it a little frustrating when a mix is all super-obscure heat I don't know, but trying to ID shit then becomes part of the fun. I copped Muro's very first King Of Diggin' tape in Fat Beats in '98 and took it into work with me when I got back to London. I hadn't really heard too many straight-up break tapes at that time and, although nothing on that tape is a mystery now, some of it seemed pretty obscure back then. Anyway, a whole bunch of the guys in the office did rubs of it, and we bumped the shit out of it for months. Between us we set about ID'ing every track, and one guy did a spreadsheet so we could cross-reference the o.g's to the songs that sampled them. Incredibly nerdy stuff, I realise, but it was a good laugh.
    gettingnasty