The Life of a True Disciple of Hip Hop

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forclosure

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DannyL said:
A problem with culture atm in general is I'm not even half way through that list and I already feel overwhelmed.
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i'm surprised rap websites like that still exist that seem to cover underground and old man rap and a couple albums that are just adjecent enough to the kind of people who'd be excited to see that Lewis Parker has a new album in this day and age or god help us Vinnie Paz
 
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WebEschatology said:
i'm surprised rap websites like that still exist that seem to cover underground and old man rap and a couple albums that are just adjecent enough to the kind of people who'd be excited to see that Lewis Parker has a new album in this day and age or god help us Vinnie Paz
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I listened to K-Rino and then Killah Priest on the way home last night. Had to cut the former after a few songs. It's technicallly good rhyming but leaves me totally cold and reminds me of idk fucking X Clan or something like that. Kilah Priest was more of a trip as you'd expect but I don't know if I could swallow a whole album.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
yeah i'm impressed. certainly kept me listening for a long rant

crazy persona he's portraying, i f i'm not drunk i can't rap right and all that stuff, a lot of his lines are funny
 
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forclosure

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DannyL said:
I listened to K-Rino and then Killah Priest on the way home last night. Had to cut the former after a few songs. It's technicallly good rhyming but leaves me totally cold and reminds me of idk fucking X Clan or something like that. Kilah Priest was more of a trip as you'd expect but I don't know if I could swallow a whole album.
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K-Rino's a Texas legend but the problem is he's never picked good beats, when's the last time you listened to X-clan? cause Brother J was millitant but he was smooth with it

I like that Priest at his age is willing to do weird stuff you would expect from rappers of his style and pedigree i don't want it all the time like craner but sure i can check into see what he's up to
 
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DannyL

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WebEschatology said:
K-Rino's a Texas legend but the problem is he's never picked good beats, when's the last time you listened to X-clan? cause Brother J was millitant but he was smooth with it
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Probably like 25 years ago, I was just reaching for an ooooold reference point as it had this intense yet outdated feel to it.
 
luka

luka

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craner said:
Our Prince Across the Water has just unearthed a very important cultural and generational artifact which he has asked me to share with you for comment.

It's an interview with Harry Love of the Scratch Perverts that is bitter, poignant, profound and fucking hilarious. It tells a story of our generation: the children of the 1980s and teenagers of the 1990s and our hopeless, pointless, wasted lives. Harry is an archetype for all of us, but the extraordinary details of his life add to the beauty and drama of his monologue: bunking off school to look for Blak Twang records, hanging out with Rik Mayall, Ruby Wax and Kate Moss at his Dad's Portabello Road Cafe, etc. But he's done his training, he's a true disciple of hip hop, he's been on tour with All Saints. Gorging on a big thick glass of fizzy lager all the way through, because this is the conditioning of the 90s, when life was one big beer garden with a pair of Technics in the corner. Or as Luke put it: "he hasnt adapted to the times, hes still got the 90s attitude to life, be fucked out your nut on all occassions like sara cox. this is better than needham this is the best. i love embittered people they are the only people who are worth listening to."

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@shakahislop @Corpsey
 
luka

luka

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craner said:
One of the things Luke finds so funny and tragic about these interviews is that the subjects are 'famous without being famous', legends to a few thousand people. They all, for completely honorable and authentic reasons, backed the wrong horse. It takes a special form of commitment to dedicate your life to UK Hip Hop (of all things!) and it has left them, in their 40s, bitter, resentful, flat broke. There is another one he dug out with Chester P of Task Force who spends a large segment of the interview moaning about the distribution of his new record. These interviews are a tragicomic repository of financial gripes and broken dreams.
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craner said:
It's a personal epic, a UKHH Odyssey, the story of a generation.
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pattycakes_

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
wild greens said:
You only need look at the tragic self-affirmation of grime twitter "spaces" to see it's not exclusive to these realms
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I think it's to do with our generation's evolution wrt growing up. I say this word often but the infantilization thing is real. We never grew up the way the previous generations did. They're all settled down and left their childish things behind. Our gen will probably hold on to them til the grave.
 
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pattycakes_ said:
I think it's to do with our generation's evolution wrt growing up. I say this word often but the infantilization thing is real. We never grew up the way the previous generations did. They're all settled down and left their childish things behind. Our gen will probably hold on to them til the grave.
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I think someone said on here recently that the mainstream culture has even leaned into the issue too. Everything has found itself trapped in the past, endless reboots, 6 million marvel films, Stranger Things etc

Boy In Da Corner is closer to A-Ha's "Take On Me" than it is to the modern day. But some people are still obsessed with that era or earlier, still focussing on the tiny minutae of whose arse dizzee grabbed in napa etc

It's quite tragic in a way
 
luka

luka

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wild greens said:
You only need look at the tragic self-affirmation of grime twitter "spaces" to see it's not exclusive to these realms
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i think it's as much to do with not getting famous as it is to do with not growing up. being famous and not famous at the same time. having fans but not getting rich.
 
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