Macklemore, "Same Love"

even before i clicked that link, i imagined there was probably a 60% chance of seeing steve harvey on there.

i never have it on during his show but i do hear the extended promos they air for it

also they air keith sweat's syndicated show on weeknights

THE SWEAT HOTEL

http://www.v103.com/onair/the-sweat-hotel-47100/

ew that title

why not THE SWEAT LODGE?

its the best & sadly there is no audio of it online

ppl call in and confess that they've been cheating on their sig other

or they call in and answer keith's topic of the evening, for ex: "ladies: is your man putting it down the way you need him to? and fellas is your lady putting it down the way you need her to?"

lol if not call me keith sweat and we can talk abt it girl

yeah i think this is key - esp when you consider that the person most credited for Illmatic's insta-canonical status is John Schecter. The shift feels way more generational than racial - it's not as if the Chronic didn't have a bunch of white people jumping on board who were also ignoring the vast majority of the genre.

― da croupier, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno man i'm just looking at pazz n jop & av club fetishization of alt rappers in the early 00s that basically ignored anything vaguely 'commercial' or 'street'

obv this isn't an issue any more (as i was saying i agree with m@tt? or you guys forgot so you could pile on?) but no it wasn't just white ppl policing myopic 'indie' coverage of hip hop that thought dj shadow and dr octagon and (at one point) arrested development made the most important rap records EVAH

all i'm saying is it was understandable why things leaned so far back the other way ... arrested development were cool & good, so were PM Dawn, but they were definitely overhyped at one point

i know that we're so above that now that ilx YT's have longstanding support of VIC's "Get Silly" but let's not pretend that the 'hip-hop is entering its hair metal phase' jim derogatisms of hip-hop at the turn of the millennium were some sort of balanced, un-problematic wonderland of hip hop coverage

hair metal is good

Entroducing is so good.

its also not rap

i also like dr. octagon

If its not rap is it hip hop?

who cares

i love dr octogon but dj shadow is like the most boringiest music ever created like someone thought to themselves how can i make the most boringiest bloodless music possible

I'm not saying that writers (white or black) couldn't/shouldn't have celebrated arrested development, just that once YT's got behind it, it made it this kind of massive critical phenomenon beyond what the group could hope to deliver.

Like, plenty of Yts and non-yts love tribe but they never got quite the same level of insane PNJ dominant attention

If you think that about DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim will likely put you into an instant coma

given my time in coffee shops doing grad school work in my 20s i sometimes think endtroducing might be album i've heard the most in my life

I still like DJ Shadow although I'm pickier about which tracks I'll put on ... "midnight in a perfect world" "high noon" and the joint that samples Paul Simon are all p chill

someone told me dj shadow makes music these days that sounds like the prodigy and other english groups like that from the 90s lol

i bet it's still better than his keak da sneak collabs

If you think that about DJ Shadow, DJ Vadim will likely put you into an instant coma

― On-the-spot Dicespin (DJP), Wednesday, May 21, 2014 3:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao i have a clear memory of someone recommending dj vadim to me by saying "its rap except for with like good production" which shd win some sort of im not usually into rap but excellence award

Like, plenty of Yts and non-yts love tribe but they never got quite the same level of insane PNJ dominant attention

or, more to the point, grammy awards attention and mtv attention. i'm not sure pnj attention matters at all IRL.

dj shadow dj krush dj vadim all these djs have this weird very purposeful rhythmic inertness that is supposed to read as thoughtful and peaceful but is really very ponderous and unchill

I'm not gonna condemn DJ Krush given Cold Crush Cuts

ya he is def the best of the three

underrated 90s DJ: DJ Honda

but he made actual rap records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTshj2xDgMY

Common kinda shits that song up. Juju has my favorite verse. Him or Fat Joe

he had this weird mostly empty store store on orchard that sold a portable turntable he designed and like a few tshirts

i owned that 12" btw

or, more to the point, grammy awards attention and mtv attention. i'm not sure pnj attention matters at all IRL.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:18 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes this as well i was being lazy

KDAY is awesome, was so glad to tune into them on last trip to LA and hear "No Vaseline"

followed by vintage Scarface and then Drop it Like Its Hot

KDAY is amazing every city should be so lucky

yup, an oasis in a wasteland

One thing that's great about KDAY is they will play just about any track off of Chronic 2001, not just the singles

*sigh* i wish BBC Radio Humberside played "Fuck You" on the reg

I listen to KDAY every day

or at least when I drive I guess

Heard "Fuck You" more than once on KDAY

http://www.clipartbest.com/cliparts/dT8/p6y/dT8p6yxTe.jpeg

fuck wit KDAY (and everybody's celebratin')

listening to 3 years, 5 mo., and 2 days in the life of arrested development....this ain't so bad actually

on the heels of all the (much less popular/praised) first wave of Native Tongues stuff I just found it really irritating and kind of pompous

granted I haven't listened to it in at least 15 years

well like i ain't throwing out my copies of 3 feet high and rising or done by the forces of nature or anything

i dunno...it's more dated now so it feels loveable like an artifact of a certain era

sometimes they hit on a real nice bluesy/downhome more live instrument focused version of the native sound

that album is one of those things i've hated so long that i don't think i could stop now

speaking of jungle brothers it never really registered to me how much Speech bit Baby Bam from Jungle Brothers whole flow