Macklemore, "Same Love"

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

really?!

at the time it just seemed really unfair that they were huge and the Jungle Bros were stuff being these obscure also-rans

funny thread: arrested development: classic or dud?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/05/macklemore_s_offensive_costume_is_part_of_pop_s_long_history_of_appropriation.html

Carl Wilson weighs in (with asides re Katy Perry and others, plus tv shows)

I like when he briefly notes that warning against immediate indignation might be easy for him considering he's in none of the appropriated cultures

Not that it keeps him from writing a thinkpiece about whether or not people are too shortsightedly judgey these days

"But in its day, it was all received as respectable, good fun—to the degree that the Jewfaced or yellowfaced performers were often Jews or Asians themselves, joining in with degrees of enthusiasm or reluctance that are often hard to decipher at this remove."

...

this mongrel land we call planet Earth

Sounds like a line from the end of a Star Trek episode.

Smdh at "we all have different noses" line

clever by half

kinda surprised it took this long for someone from rhymesayers to start cutting on macklemore for being a knockoff

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

ha, I kicked it with Ali once, real cool dude

yeah he's genuinely positive, he does a lot of stuff to get kids school supplies in north mpls and generally can be counted on to be 100% pro labor, anti-police brutality, shows up for damn near any benefit show

wow!

who does mackelmore site as his influences

gay people everywhere

his uncle, drawing, keeping his room tidy

3rd grade