― oops (Oops), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link
"I wish I had a mic"
― donut ferry (donut), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/4/47/Monkees1987.jpg
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
The distasteful thing to me is if you start describing what you like as "real hip-hop" and that you don't like "rap" even if that's exactly what you're listening to. A lot of these "white, DJ Shadow/Jurassic 5 loving, university student hip-hop fan[s]" say they listen to hip-hop, not rap. It's the same situation as those cats who only like gangster rap who say anything that doesn't talk about clothes, bank roles, and hos isn't "real" either.
And I'm sure there are a ton of other people out there who listen to "real rock", "real country", and "real drum 'n bass". I find those people weird for the same reason.
Also, I like Shadow, RJD2, and J5 and even if that was the only hip-hop/rap you listened to, I'd still say that person liked "real hip-hop". I'd just take offense when they start describing Warren G as being without worth.
― Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith (Alexander Buckiewicz-Smith), Saturday, 30 July 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 20 May 2006 11:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Saturday, 20 May 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I actually must give some credit to pitchfork (heaven forbid) on actually speaking the truth that J5 must be one of the most borning bands on the planet, and that there are sum mainstream rappers with actual talent. The many-alt hip hop is just as negative as the gansta rap... if i hear one more time on how j5 is gonna take us back to the day.....!!!!
i'll let my good friend from outkast sum up 4 me "met a critic, I made her shit her drawersShe said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcoholI said "Oh hell naw!" But yet it's that tooYou can't discrimi-hate cause you done read a book or two"
― robbin, Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Saturday, 20 May 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 20 May 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― guess papers (eman), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
T-minus 18 months to Arrested Development revival, y'all!
-- Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:18 (2 years ago) Link
:( RIP
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 June 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Early attempt at trolling here, not really a classic.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 28 June 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Needed more steampunk
also needs to not be based on a previously professed love for j5
― deej, Saturday, 28 June 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Firstly, yes, I like Jurassic 5. Woo-fucking-hoo.
― deej, Saturday, 28 June 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Dom you said "I'm seriously interested on this one, and I have no real answers. Do discuss." and now you say it was "Early attempt at trolling here, not really a classic." How will we ever know if you are being disingenuous in the future?
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://dmacwilliam.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/200801_01.gif
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/trust-no-one.jpg
― latebloomer, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm seriously interested on this one, and I have no real answers.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ An obsessive interest in researching scandal/gossip that's happened in the past, manifesting itself as revivals of old threads to highlight some post or statement that's supposedly funny or o_0 or whatever.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf guys i just wanted to big up an arrested development revival
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
HOOS I was ^^^ing gebbnab
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
In an age where hip-hop stars are regularly lambasted for inciting violence, misogyny and homophobia, and where a lot of the time this is true, it could be all too easy to slip into a jaded view of the whole genre. But by dismissing it out of hand, a whole world of musical pioneering could be missed - for every Ludacris there's a Mos Def, for every G-Unit there's a De La Soul. Hip-Hop can have something to say, and it can be as meaningful as any lyric sung by some misanthropic indie singer.
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.asylumraiders.com/images/snoopy_typewriter.gif
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
still easier to take the piss out of the dj shadow fan (i dunno if this sort of fan still exists though, theyve probably moved onto clipse/wayne etc and regard their earlier 'corny' def jux/prefuse/rjd2 phase with embarassment) than the person who thinks lil boosie and plies are keeping the levels high.
― uk grime faggot (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link
theyve probably moved onto clipse/wayne etc and regard their earlier 'corny' def jux/prefuse/rjd2 phase with embarassment
haha yeah i think this is key. the new strawman regards jay-z playing glastonbury in 2008 as a great leap forward.
where does that blipster dude dom was blogging about fit into this?
― the face of fashion in soho square (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I like DJ Shadow, sorry.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lol i think that blipster dude wants beef
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Hot beef injection from Dom Passantino.
I d/led that DJ Shadow early stuff 4xCD sprawl about a month ago but haven't listened to any of it yet. I should get round to it really.
― Architect of the Geocities (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Back in the day, we built our strawmen from people we saw walking round university campuses. Now we build them based on late twentysomethings we read on the internet.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty much, though i am still a student!
― the face of fashion in soho square (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
This kind of guy (generalise from your own experience) also listens to a set list of indie and IDM types, but you never hear indie fans complaining about how Super Furry Animals fans are ruining indie, or electronica types talking about "Yet _another_ Aphex Twin fan".
Haha RONG.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah isn't Aphex Twin the signifier for someone claiming "I'm not really into that dance stuff, although I don't mind Come to Daddy?" Dance music for 6Music listeners. Again, I like Aphex Twin!
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
sopering point but this autumn's fresher intake were not born when aphex put out his first record, so they're not going to be invested in his work in quite the same way as us old lags.
― the face of fashion in soho square (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
sobering. hic.
Since it's not 1998 any more, you probably need to substitute Aphex Twin for The Bug or Burial or someone.
Actually this strawman still pops up in my head whenever I look at the Friday night listings for Fabric. These people will always exist, unless weed suddenly disappears from the surface of the earth.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm old, just not down with the hippy students any more.
― zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Come To Daddy would be morelike the token pick for 'open minded'-but-not-really metal fans FWIW (Dillinger Escape Plan covered it for example)
― I'm Throwing Small Arms Around Powys (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
good thread.
bring back the old Dom!
― Keep The Dawgs Away (Ioannis), Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Amount of people who know I like hip-hop and have tried bringing up scroobius pip or whatever that shit is in the past 6 months: 7.
Amount of people who know I like hip-hop and have talked to me about Jurassic 5/Dj Shadow etc. ever: O.
Amount of people who have talked to me about Lil Wayne/T.I.: 1.
I hate only knowing students.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes, i just ran into the blog post that inspired this revive by accident.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
A producer and a poet from Essex weren't the most likely candidates to become the saviours of intelligent hip-hop, but with Scroobius Pip's wit and biting social commentary backed up by Dan le Sac's 8-bit bleeps and beats, it's hard to disagree.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Should we invite that dude on her to defend himself?
― Mare Street tour guide (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
unfortunate typo there robinho.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it really takes a lot to raise my ire these days when it comes to music, but le sac and pip do it every. single. time.
so yes let's get that blogger on here.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 29 January 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link