DJ Shadow - "3 Freaks"

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Plus the new album. From Pitchfork:

Shadow, known for his darkly cinematic hip-hop, may be on the verge of a musical about-face. It seems he's getting crunk on his new record.

Posting on his official web site recently, Shadow said, "Stylistically, it's very different from The Private Press. Some have said Press was an inward-looking album. If that's true, than [sic] this album is the opposite, and that suits me just fine. I've also stopped worrying if my changing taste in music costs me fans; life's too short to live in anyone's box, especially if that box is constraining your shine."

Shadow expects to complete the as-yet untitled album soon. No word on a firm release date, but fans can listen to the single "3 Freaks", featuring Bay Area rappers Keak Da Sneak and Turf Talk, on Shadow's web site. The video for the single is also available for viewing and a remix of the track is forthcoming. To put it mildly, "3 Freaks" is indeed a departure from the library to the sweaty club. Also, check out the picture of Shadow and David Banner in the site's Album Update section! (Then check out the photo of the orchestra.)

And the new song is...well, not very good, sounds to me. I'm all for people going more pop, but you gotta do it well. There's a good idea there in the chorus, but it's not really executed very well. (Repeating your names is not an acceptable hook, fellas.)

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I didn't dig it much either and I like Keak and Shadow both

oh well

Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

as generic hyphy it's pretty good. I think the only way in the world that DJ Shadow could have endeared himself to me at this piont is by imitating Rick Rock, and bizarrely, that's what he did.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:24 (twenty years ago)

It will be interesting to see the fan reaction ... I think there would have been more "outrage" over the Funky Skunk mix (Shadow goes dumb oh noes!!) if it had been more widely heard ...

Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah because pfork dj shadow nerd types hate regional club rap right now

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

with the exception of bold iconoclasts like "pete l'official"

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I quite like this track. I don't get why people assume most Shadow fans wouldn't like it either.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

The video is weird. Is the bad guy supposed to be Willie Brown?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

It's true, from a purely cynical standpoint it triangulates the post-Endtroducing diaspora nicely, grabbing both the Rhymesayers kids and the regional-rap nerds.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

this has been out forever, hasn't it?

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty good, but there's lots of other bay shit that's way better.

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah there was a thread with it a while ago, but the video just came out I think.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

the videos been out like a month!!

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

"...life's too short to live in anyone's box, especially if that box is constraining your shine..."

Do you suppose "your shine" includes diamonds and ho's?

Piss-poor track for Shadow.

christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

dont yall read somanyshrimp.com??!?!

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

no.

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Haha okay well I just saw it this weekend.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

its not JUST a sage francis fansite

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

theres also awkward tributes to t.i. and people under the stairs

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

t.i. under the stairs

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

t.i. under the stars

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

for a romantic walk

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

with me

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Very romantic.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

haha so this is the thread we're going to soil with "dpdee" jokes today

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

don't confuse ethan's desires to dp with djdee and ****** with my love for ti

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

"it's me...jess...from the magazine..."

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

esoteric.jpg

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

claygolem.jpg

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

unnnnnggghh.wav

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.y-r.com/images/vehicles/samurai.jpg

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

he speaks through me

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

his words dp my mind

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

please listen to my dp

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

dpmd!!!

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

daddino?

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Reading this thread, I feel like my superego has been spreadeagled and violated.

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Haha are +++++ and ++++ the same person? There are so many Ethan copycats around it is hard to keep track.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

but in my dream, i care for it

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahahaha

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

i was just +++ but i gotta stay changin it now cuz that stalker fag elli$ keeps registering my names

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

snakerollingadonut.jpg

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

i cuddle it and love it as it is my son

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

gale?

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:03 (twenty years ago)

djdeslongchamps

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i dont think we've ever derailed a thread this thoroughly so quickly

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

dpdee: should i say something in that thread about how ellis is ethan's stalker fag and ethan's become mine
dpdee: or just let this all slide
Alex in Baltimore: hahahahaha
Alex in Baltimore: i dunno that's a tough call
Alex in Baltimore: dangerous business
dpdee: its like provoking a snake
Alex in Baltimore: "pause"
Alex in Baltimore: "nullus"
dpdee: haha
Alex in Baltimore: "whatever the fuck they say"

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

actually in real life i am snake phoebia

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

u scared of snakes, doggie?

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

indianajones.jpg

deeej, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Monday, March 27, 2006

While I'm engaging in some meta-blog whining, let me just say for the record that I'm tired of this "after the jump" shit where I have to click to read the whole post. I guess it's a an odd position to take, considering I've got to click a whole lot of things just to get to the page. But it's a goddamn blog, I should be able to scroll up and down and see everything you've posted without clicking, unless it's an outside link. Also, I'm kinda glad I don't have one of those hugely popular blogs when I look at them and see people scrambling to be the first to comment on a new post, usually saying nothing other than "first!"...What the fuck is the point of that?

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

man, leave me alone, don't you have some somanyshrimp dipset groupie shirts to make fun of?

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:21 (twenty years ago)

this is great.

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

^^^ http://treyjackson.typepad.com/junction/images/006076128801_pe34_scmzzzzzzz_.jpg

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

dj shadow ghost rides the whip in his new video

ath (ath), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.catchdubs.com/images/rub060404.jpg

wpww, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I've been doing this every Saturday for a while now. It's a really hilarious situation. Some of my personal faves that get results are

David Banner - Play
D4L - Big Shit Poppin'
M.I.A. - $10
Pharell feat. Jay-Z - Frontin'
Julez Santana - Freaky, There It Go (whistle song)
Khia - My Neck, My Back
Lil' Kim - Big Momma Thing
Missy - Pass the Dutch, Wake Up
Busta - Light Your Ass On Fire

It used to be ironic for me, but damn, those pop songs will get into your head.

-- DJ Shadow (djshado...), April 3rd, 2006.

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

LOL...SONGS

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

no crunk, no credibility

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

THEY CALL ME DOM P FROM THE 'VILLE

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e239/allocryptic/morf3.jpg

lololololol

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/goldblum-fly.jpg

++++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Do you think underground rap has more problems than commercial rap?

I guess what's happened that over the past seven to ten years, the term "underground" has changed. It's changed so much from when it used to mean Boot Camp and DITC. The records some of these kids are doing isn't even rap. It seems like it's problematic because you have all these different types of people under one umbrella. There's a lot of shit that they're putting out that I don't even want to be associated with. I think that's where the problem comes in. Certain people don't want to be associated with stereotypes in music. A lot of shit that's put under the underground umbrella isn't even rap music. It's about kids talking about how they love their girlfriends, pick flowers, and eat granola bars. That's homo shit to me.Underground is hardcore shit to me.

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

btw you can hear the banner track shadow produced here http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php3?page=tracks its called seeing thangs

++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Haha is that DJ Shadow or djdee?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)

THE INTERVIEW IS VINNY PAZ

THE PHOTO IS DOM PASSATINO & SOME INDIE FAGGOT

THE HIPHOPGAME AUDIO IS DJ SHADOW

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha, you kissed a girl! That is so gay!

Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I get confused for vinny paz all the time.

deeej, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

DJDEE IS SOME HERB WHO MEETS DUDES ON THE SAGE FRANCIS MESSAGEBOARD AND STARTS BLOGS WITH THEM

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

baby you can start my blog

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Haha this thread is bananas.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hamburghiphop.de/misc/bilder/vinnie_paz_2.jpg

++++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Government Bitch!
posted by SergDun at 5:23 PM

Motherfuck Government Names, those motherfuckers is holding the fucking Shrimp down. Them fools ain’t giving the Shrimp the shine it fucking deserves. All up on their own dicks thinking they on some next shit. Fuck that, we’ll snatch their fucking archives. Them bloggas be linking to weakass shit like fucking MTV News. What the fuck kind of bullshit is that? You motherfuckers need some Kurt Loder dick or something? MTV ain’t down for the streets bitch. MTV is for them pussy ass livejournal ass bloggers.

Government Names just gave old David here some shine by linking his sorry ass blog. How you going to big up the softest boy on the Shrimp but you ain’t finna let the Shimp shine. There can be only one answer and that is that these motherfuckers is hating. Hating on the Shrimp is unforgivable. That’s some shit you do when you want to start a motherfucking war. The Shrimp don’t fucking play bitch. You think you hot because you got a fucking K-Rino and Young Ro interview? FUCK YOUR INTERVEIWS. The Shrimp don’t give a fuck about that shit. Interviews don’t cover the fact that you some hating ass bloggas. In the land of hiphop bloggery these motherfucker is hating on one of the few blogs that be big upping underground southern shit. You see we would could have worked together and got this money but hell naw. Bitch Names had to hate on the almighty Shrimp.

These motherfuckers think they all high and fucking mighty with theirs. So now it’s fucking on bitch. AL, d_l_k, that british bitch and all the rest of them soft as bloggas is finna get got. Playtime is over motherfuckers. Raise the fuck up and recognize the trill. Motherfuckers betta start respecting the fucking Shrimp or the hurt is finna get put the fuck on ya. This ain’t some soft shit neither, we’ll fucking trainwreck you’re whole crew. The Shrimp should be fucking huge but no we get fucking fronted on by all these soft ass whitebread bloggas. Ain’t none of these motherfucking hoes on our level. Next time you see the Shrimp and our rims are spinning just remember FUCK YOU BITCHES!! All these haters finna see the Shrimp start shining. We tried to be nice but fools fronted so now we’re taking over this blogger game by force. You can fall inline or you can fucking die. We ain’t playing when the shots start popping you can run for the comments or you can face the wrath of the Shrimp. Either way you finna get delt the fuck with cuz the Shrimp ain’t no fucking joke.

South blogger motherfucker that’s where I stay, gettin' money from yo bitches every goddamn day

You can’t see me Markus.

(stay tuned cuz all this week the shrimp is calling out all these softass bloggas. Computers will flow with the blood of blog.)

++++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

i was with it until the last line

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

me & shipley usedta go "fools be hatin on tha shrimp" for like 6 months after that

++++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

someone morph a picture of djdee into vinnie paz

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

and then me into bob ballaban

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

unfortunately him looking bloated in some gay collegehumor.com tee standing next to max weinberg is down

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

hahah i could do the balaban with just a still jpg

++++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

haha

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

"i think i saw his eyelid twitch!"

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

for a second i was like "there's no photo of me standing next to max weinberg"

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

theyre at a kerry 04 rally lol

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

gay stalker 06

+++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

OK, I've put "start indie-rap thread" into my calendar as a recurring appointment every other Tuesday.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

^^^ this guy replaced trife as go-to guy on hip-hop at flagpole

j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, the last hip-hop album I reviewed for Flagpole was TI in Jan 05.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

haha like i said!

j (ok maybe it's g0rdon lamb) blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

I guess there aren't too many pictures of ethan padgett on the internet because he wants the world to think he's black.

Robert L Bell (Robert L Bell), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Uh no he doesn't.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

they're all on suicidegirls - you wanna see the p you gotta pay the fee

j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

"ethan" is kinda a black dude's name though so i can see why the confusion

j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

http://groups.myspace.com/suicideboys

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, there goes my evening.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

http://c.myspace.com/Groups/00008/21/35/8785312_l.jpg

Ethan on his way to a Dutchmassive PA.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

bun b wrote:
Who the fuck are you to sit behind you safe little cubicle and criticize who we are and what we do? For more than 20 years. Southern Artists and fans have faithfully supported any and all hip hop that was offered. We accepetced everyone on their own merits, gave evryone a fair listen, and then spoke. In light of you comments and views, it occured to me that you haven’t given near as much open mindedness to our music as we have to yours. The reasons I say yours is that it doensn’t what type of music came out, we supported it, so we in no doubt supported whatever the fuck you listen to. To think that all we know is what we do, or that we may know nothing at all is preposterous. If you’re a paying member of Soundscan, you can see that ALL MUSIC SELLS IN THE SOUTH! 5 percenter? Bought it. Backpackers? Bought it. Black power, Wu-Tang, horrorcore, need I say more? Meanwhile, after 25 years of unconditionally holdin down all forms of rap/hiphop music, as soon as we even try to join a club we bought and help build the clubhouse for, they wanna deny us access. Well guess what you Elks lodge habitatin, Masters in Augusta wanna-be, finger-pointin behind the bushes, throwin a rock and runnin ass nigga, I just thought I’d tell you to take whatever preconcieved notions you have built up in your air and watertight cranium AND STICK IT IN YO PUSSY! I guarentee you the TRUE FANS AND MAKERS OF HIP HOP JUST MIGHT DIFFER WITH YOU! I know this because I am friends with Cool Herc, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and other extremely well known originators and creators of this artform. The problem now is the act of causing division and dissention amongst the fans by people whom are not in the know. You see, YOU may not like Laffy Taffy or DFB or whoever, and you know what, that’s your GOD-given right. Hate all you want on the South, Southern rappers, or just Pimp C, since you brought him up. IT STILL WONT HELP WHOEVER YOU LIKE SELL SHIT! Talib Kweli: close friend of UGK. De La Soul: close friends of UGK. Kanye West, Common, Dead Prez, close firends of UGK. Jam Master Jay, 2 Pac, Biggie Smalls: ALL FUCKING FANS OF UGK, and I dont say this from second hand conversation. These people told me this from their own mouths, yet you would have people believe otherwise. They could learn to be openminded about the music the listened and the regions the music was popular in, so it should come at no surprise these people went further thatn the average artists. Whatever alterior motive you may have is trying to bring down the Southern rise, it won’t work. God kills hate with love. Oh yeah, by the way, as far as your comments on my brother and his reason for incarceration, he pulled a gun on a group of people thrreatening him in a mall. Only the girl went back and told the police, that’s why it seems as if it was between only him and the girl. The problem is, misinformed people give misinformation and cause misfortune to the learing. I hate to call this the blind leading the blind, because by the look of your commment posts, they know what’s up. So instead of just going to New York, screaming and ranting in White Nigga’s office, I came to see you on your turf, because I’m no coward. I’m willing to come in your yard: care to come in mine? Right a rhyme, let;s see what you have the hip-hop community musically. Oh and make sure it’s Grammy-nominated when you do it, because mine was. And while you’re at it ask Nas, Jay-Z, Papoose, Camron,, Russell Simmons, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Chino XL, Self Scientific, Cyrpess ill, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris or anybody else in this industry you like if Pimp C is wack. I bet they bark on you louder than I want to. God forbid you’re in the wrong place and the wrong time like Pimp and have to spend 4 years of your life behind bars. You’re a black man, so fuck how educated and well read you are. You’ll ride just like Pimp, and you’ll be sorry about it, just like Pimp. The only difference: nobody’s gonna wear a fuckin t-shirt with yo face on it. Leave the South alone, becausse we’re just tryin to eat. Quit bloggin and write a book if you got more goin on besides gossip and shootin slugs. Because after blogging has come and gone, and XXL is no longer on stands or online(which I would hate to see), UGK and our musical legacy will survive. Will your triflin rants sustain?

deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

last night i was just hanging out w/a 17 year old named jimmy who is white as a loaf of wonderbread but he said the word "nigga" about 50x more than his two (black) friends. convo revolved around fights arising from stolen els, $10 bets on pickup basketball games and bluster about jooking people ... strangely i never stopped to ridicule him for "wanting to be black"

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

Mostly what I will take away from this thread is that Jess sucks.

Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

this thread is fun to read while I have the chorus from "3 Freaks" stuck in my head.

STRONGO AND DPDEE (we need three!) STRONGO AND DPDEE (man, we need freaks!)

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Is there like a "Very Short Introduction to Hip Hop Blogs Beef" that I can read to catch up on all this?

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

the funny thing is that post quoted above was a parody of rap blog beef before rap blog beef actually existed. although I think by now anything any of the people in this thread have been involved in pales in comparison to, say, Byron Crawford jacking Kris Ex's blogspot address.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

"will your triflin rants sustain"!!!!!!

Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh I should mention - the shit that I just posted is not what Al is referring to. What I posted is Bun B airing the shit out of Byron Crawford on Byron's new XXL blog.

deeej, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Phonte's diss of Kris Ex is more concise:

# Phonte of Little Brother Says:
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:02 am

Very ironic coming from the same dude who skewered Dipset for their ‘genocidal wordplay’ last year, no?

Eh…

I know a backhanded compliment when I see one:

“You’re pretty cute for a fat girl.”
“You’re pretty smart for a Black guy.”
“You music is pretty good for a group of backpackers.”

Well ‘fuck you’ too, nigga….

deeeej, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

"ethan" is kinda a black dude's name though so i can see why the confusion


posted by plum drank @ 3/18/2006

Robert L Bell (Robert L Bell), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

lol @ dutchmassive

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

haha i read that as "tom b airing out byron crawford"

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

bun breihan

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

haha I totally didn't realize what that Bun B thing was, that's hilarious. I wonder if Byron is disappointed anytime a rapper other than Kanye comments on his site.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

how did he get an xxl blog anyway?? does that retard even listen to rap music??

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

they needed someone to cover the Gin Blossoms/Toad The Wet Sprocket sector of the rap audience.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

he based his pimp c dis on one verse from the t.i. album??!!?

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

biting my tongue

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

that'd be like if i dismissed the entire ouevre of the gin blossoms based on just their one song from the crow soundtrack

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

okay I'll be the guy who takes the hit and admits to being familiar enough with the crow soundtrack to say that there's no gin blossoms song on it. :-(

Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

If DJ Shadow is so keen to record with crunk artists why doesn't he work with Franz Ferdinand?

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

or diplo

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Or Terrence Howard

Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

okay I'll be the guy who takes the hit and admits to being familiar enough with the crow soundtrack to say that there's no gin blossoms song on it. :-(

I almost said "don't you mean the Empire Records soundtrack?"

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

all alt-rock soundtrack questions can be answered with the greatest ILM thread ever:

the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

(although I do disagree with his initial claim, simply because Stone Temple Pilots' best song is on that CD)

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

i own the spawn soundtrack - classic material!!

++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

JUDGEMENT NIGHT

Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

the bun b rant made this thread worthwhile

Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

it was a good thread

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

for the 4 people that understood half of the references, sure.

Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I was sort of glad that I didn't get 90% of it

Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

got 'ryche?

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

now 92%

Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

(although I do disagree with his initial claim, simply because Stone Temple Pilots' best song is on that CD)

"Big Bang Baby" isn't on that.

Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

it's no wonder we all turned out the way we did
-- strongo hulkington

strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Bun B quit yer bitchin’
No one cares that you know De La Soul.

“Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I’ll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger ’til it goes ‘click.’” - Jesus

So the other day I created a post in which I attempted to prove that southern rap fans, and not backpackers, are the most annoying fans in all of hip-hop. I figured a few - maybe 15 or 40 - of these assholes would show up in the comments section with their retarded, misguided, emotional outbursts (filled with ridonkulous mispellings, ALL CAPS, and what have you) thus proving my point. Never would I have guessed that over 100 of these d-bags and counting, including the biggest southern rap stan of them all, Bun B, would all respond within the space of 2 days. Ah, the Internet.

In fact, when I heard Bun B had responded to the post, I hoped he had actually read it and would respond to some of the points I made in it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Bun B did nothing of the sort. Instead he let loose with the kind of comment that begins, “You sit in your fucking cubicle all day…” It could very well be the case that Bun B doesn’t know how to read, and that one of his hoes read it for him (while Pimp C pointed a gun at her, natch) and then typed up his response. Does that seem too unlikely a scenario? How else to account for the fact that Bun B is accusing me of all kinds of weird shit that doesn’t have shit to do with shit?

First of all, Bun B goes on a lengthy-ass rant about how people in the South have supported all kinds of music for over 20 years. Um, OK. First of all, as a matter of explanation, I’m not from New York. As mentioned in my post about why Reggaeton should be banned, I visited there briefly last year and didn’t particularly care for it. In general, I found it dirty and vastly overpopulated. I was born, raised, and currently reside in St. Louis, MO. As I’m sure you’re all aware, there are a few very popular (a lot more so than UGK) rappers from around here, but I don’t pretend to like them just because I come from the same town. What kind of gay-ass shit is that?

Nor do I feel any obligation to “support” someone just because they rap. In general, I don’t encourage anyone to buy anything they don’t really need, but then I’m gully like that. As the President would say, you speak of hip-hop as if it’s some sort of entitlement program. On the rare occasion that I do buy a CD, I buy it because I want to listen to it. I could give a fuck if the artist makes $5 or $.05 from it. Am I supposed to be impressed by the fact that people in your region spend more money on rap CDs than people in any other region? Could it be that people in Texas have lower standards of quality in music than people in other parts of the country? That would certainly explain the popularity of “turning lane rap,” or whatever it is you call it.

I will say I was rather impressed by his lengthy list of important friends in the rap industry. Indeed, I’m impressed in general by people - adults - who attempt to win arguments by name dropping. Since we’re on the topic, I suppose I should mention that I went to high school with a guy who once met Lisa Loeb. And my old roommate occasionally caddies for Bob Costas. Ever heard of that fruity major label anarchist band the Living Things? You guessed it, homo, I went to high school with at least one, if not all of them. And don’t even get me started about the guy who wrote Hello, My Name Is Scott. Or the time I met one of the guys from Hoop Dreams at the Missouri Black Expo. I could go on, but I think you’re beginning to see my point.

And you say I only hear what I want to.

But the part that really got me is when Bun B suggests I might be in the wrong place at the wrong time and end up in a situation similar to his life partner Pimp C. Um, since when is pulling a gun out on a woman in a mall a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Come on, bro. Did he mean to suggest that if they weren’t at a mall, but rather, say a showing of ATL, it would’ve been the right time to do something like that? The truth of the matter is that anyone who would flash a piece out in front of a motherfucking Orange Julius is a fucking idiot. If anything, Bun B should be worried about himself being out somewhere with that asshole.

Finally, if Bun B is such a badass (no one doubts that Pimp C is - he’ll pull a gun out on you), why is he going on the Internet typing long-ass paragraphs about people that hardly said shit about him? If you read my post carefully (slowly, if necessary), you’ll notice that at no point in it did I suggest that all or even most southern hip-hop is bad. Meanwhile, Curtis “Interscope” Jackson is on the record as saying just that. Funny, I don’t see Bun B going on the Internet (or anywhere else, for that matter) and telling him to shove anything in his pussy. Hmm, I wonder why that is… Could it be that Jimmy “Double Fantasy” Iovine doesn’t allow Bun B to say shit about 50 Cent?

People, there’s a reason why Bun B is the only rapper who can’t even manage to sell 500,000 CDs, and yet and still manages to grace the cover of magazines like The Source and XXL seemingly every other month; and it ain’t got shit to do with the fact that he thinks he’s friends with “Cool Herc” (sic). Bun B is a tool of the industry and a sorry old man who only ever had a hit when he did a song with Jay-Z, who will do a song with anyone. The Soundscan numbers don’t lie, fags. UGK wasn’t selling shit back before southern rap was popular, and they still aren’t selling shit now that it’s the hottest thing out.

Your revolution is over. The bums lost.

+++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/goldblum-fly.jpg

and what, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

ahahaha

and what, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Glad that box wasn't constraining his shine.

Bodrick III, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

wow I wish Bun B stomped that dude out in real life....

also
The Soundscan numbers don’t lie, fags. UGK wasn’t selling shit back before southern rap was popular, and they still aren’t selling shit now that it’s the hottest thing out.

did he make any posts when undergroudn kingz went #1???

Preview of the Matrix 12, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

wow has it really been two years since the bun b/bol beef

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

bun b/bol blog beef

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

bun bablaws bol blog

and what, Monday, 21 April 2008 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

lol preview of the matrix 12 u know that "alex in baltimore" is the dude who writes that blog right?

max, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

God forbid you’re in the wrong place and the wrong time like Pimp and have to spend 4 years of your life behind bars. You’re a black man, so fuck how educated and well read you are. You’ll ride just like Pimp, and you’ll be sorry about it, just like Pimp. The only difference: nobody’s gonna wear a fuckin t-shirt with yo face on it.

http://www.mi.edu/Upload/Images/Banner_TreHardson.jpg

and what, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

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Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 21 April 2008 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

Well guess what you Elks lodge habitatin, Masters in Augusta wanna-be, finger-pointin behind the bushes, throwin a rock and runnin ass nigga, I just thought I’d tell you to take whatever preconcieved notions you have built up in your air and watertight cranium AND STICK IT IN YO PUSSY!

The Reverend, Monday, 21 April 2008 02:22 (eighteen years ago)


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