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"Thus far in their short career, DSR have found themselves tenuously lumped in with the spiky and contrived screwed music scene most prominently lead by the likes of UGK and the increasingly shambolic Michael Watts. DSR have turntables and a fondness for Screw tapes but, apart from the guitarist’s asymmetrical indie hair, there the similarity ends.

Screw context, screw biography—DSR have been around too short a time for either to matter. What is important is that they have a sense of adventure, romance, belief and intelligence, of art, a desire to explode preconceptions and exceed expectations that marks them out way above and beyond any of their perceived peers."

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"We're almost exactly half way through 2005, and we may just have come across the album of the year. With Diplomatic Immunity, Dipset has set a landmark in modern rap music and therefore must be heard by everyone. This undoubtedly marks the first chapter in a long and illustrious career. Welcome them into your world."

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

The album's producers weave a grand, sweeping tapestry to give Sigel's lament the heft and majesty it deserves. Like Ghostface's The Pretty Toney Album, The B.Coming swims in the sad signifiers of 70s soul: glistening strings, weeping guitars, swollen horns. On "Feel It in the Air", producer Heavy D has nothing but mournful noir saxophones for ya, baby. Ty Fyffe slathers "Change" in swooning, melodramatic violins. On "Wanted (On the Run)", da Neckbones give the chipmunk-soul treatment to Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive", mining that track's theatrical sweep with stunningly funky results. Even "Gotta Have It", the album's only remotely club-ready track, drowns in an ugly, metallic synth wash. The tracks build on each other, swirling into a symphony of pain, a fitting soundtrack to one man's dark days.

That's an actual Pitchfork review, so maybe it's partly just their style, not a statement on whether or not indie rock "matters" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean).

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

"Wanted (On the Run)" is the worst song on that album!

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah dude i mean that indierock4eva site has got madvillain and edan reviews up too, its just corny writing i think

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Admittedly, I do get annoyed when I see one of these sites gushing over something nearly indistinguishable from two dozen other records (i.e. Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah). But first of all, maybe that reviewer hears something I don't, and second, I think it's just a general tendency of young inexperienced (or just bad) music writers to equate florid praise and purple prose with good writing. It almost seems like their primary experience reading criticism came from reading book-jackets and seeing movie commercials ("A magnificent tour-de-force!" etc.), I know a guy who writes regularly for cokemachineglow, and if they'll publish his stuff, they'll probably publish anyone.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

did nobody hear me?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

(although i'm probably going to look foolish when someone tells me everyone already knew who it was 6 months ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, ok. Who is it?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get it, sorry.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm going to give the author a headstart by saying that it's REALLY REALLY easy to figure it out

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I totally don't know who it is! Do tell.

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Brent D

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Ott

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

edan

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The general premise of the site seems like something Ott would appreciate, but I guess I assumed he liked indie rock too much to want to ruthlessly take on its champions.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

you guys can figure it out with logic!! you CAN!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

slocki you hush!! i mean it!

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 18 July 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I stayed up watching The Wire until late. I don't feel logical.

xp-hmmmmmm

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

raggett

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

blount

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

now THAT is a very interesting speculation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

My next review for the Seattle Weekly is so so so totally gonna excerpted to be on the indierock4eva blog. I know it. I KNOW IT.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

dammit, 3! you knew i was gonna do a dipset4eva blog and now you gave away the idea! fuck it.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i actually started one of those months ago but gave up after two posts

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 18 July 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

the policeman who stopped you

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 July 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

id take a six of tecate over any rocafella release since 2001 besides sigel and maybe that bleek with 'round here' on it

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

speakin of 2001 there it goes

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I did some investment banking while we were back there, I'm a millionaire now.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 July 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

haha look what i found-

Subject: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:55:18 -0400
From: ethan
To: ryan@pitchforkmedia.com

youll have this by next week

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:25:06 -0500
From: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
To:
References: 1

Give it to NLYPM, I can't use it.

Ryan

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:33:03 -0400
From: ethan
To: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
References: 1 , 2

why the fuck not

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Subject: Re: camron interview
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:27:49 -0500
From: "Pitchforkmedia.com"
To:
References: 1 , 2 , 3

You know why, we don't cover mainstream rap. A Cam'ron review would be totally out of place and weird.

Ryan

-- simon trife (simo...), August 26th, 2002.

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

MEEEEEEMMMMMMREEEEEEEZZ

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

robble

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

hahaha whoa bizzaro world!

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

so what's happened since June '01? did Sosa pass Hank Aaron yet?

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0345,clover,48359,22.html

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Times sure change. Predicted this in 2001?

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

freaky zeaky testifed to congress bout his steroid use

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Jay-Z vs Nas.

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I wanted to like the Cam album, really, but man I sure didn't and I also didn't have any beer in the fridge. that Tecate hit the spot, too.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

sterl are you submitting that for consideration on dipset4eva.blogspot.com

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

haha gear right now my entire life revolves around turnin wack rap cds into hard liquor

― 3, Monday, 18 July 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I received two bucks one time for a CD by this chap named Hard Todd

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

He runs Stylus now.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 18 July 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i just wanna agree what means the world to u is amazing, um like you meet a old friend and they look better than imagination. has there been a ts dipset vs pootie tang?

― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

only if you'll take it, 3.

i think i just wanted to brag about how i was up on dipset before the blogosphere.

also remember when everyone loved cam'ron because of "boys" back when the whole kanye/justblaze thing was breaking? haha yeah those were the days.

(dipset qua dipset -- i.e. not the individual dudes -- also gets plenty of b.e.t. play, so its not just the blogosphere that digs em. tho maybe the blogosphere is fairly alone in rilly digging the mixtapes. speculation: dipset mixtapes are real easy to get ahold of & becuz of low album sales & lack of source covereage are therefore hipper than say 50 vs. LL Cool Jay AND Tigra pt. 48 & therefore are custom-made for indie-ethos consumption? "whoa -- he rhymed apple with snapple with dapple with lapel with crabapple with paffle with grapple with clappel!")

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i mean my listening is v determined by what i cn find at actual well stocked best buy but idk if dipset is in fact easier to get ahold of than any other mixtapes on the internet, that is, is this just some most bloggers are connected to nyc thing? or has dipset allowed for this in a unique way, i havent seen their website. but theres absolutely some lack of coverage meets accesibility shit goin on

― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link

but cmon you gotta love lapel in a hypothetical rhyme!

― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i fucking hated Purple Haze at first, but i do like Juelz - "What's It Gonna Be", a lot.

(thanks SFJ! best track i ever downloaded! ...oops)

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link

you want to talk about bloggers running up on somebody they never would have given the time of day to four years ago, having since lost his damn mind -- R fucking Kelly anybody?!!?!?!?

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah but it isnt like cam ws on some batman wagon like r, but still all this arguin and knashing whats basically late 90s dbl discs from my hs pep rallys is bizarre but im not abt to get in the way of some 2nd coming shit cuz i think on principle, better or worse its worth it to take that 2nd look

― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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