The Life of a True Disciple of Hip Hop

DannyL

Wild Horses
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.
One thing you used to get with some of these guys was a total hatred of house music for stealing their cultural thunder.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
It is, isn't it. Where's the beatbox solo, that's why I want to know?

Beatboxing seems like it comes from this weird early strata of rap, when it really was music for kids.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
I date the transition to about 1986 and things like "South Bronx" and Just Ice which actually sounded a bit threatening. Before that it was all Fat Boys records and crushes on The Real Roxanne.
 

catalog

Well-known member
if dissensus was a magazine, corpsey would be the hip hop section. thirdform would be the low countries nosebleed. you would be the sexy 70s. luke would be the editorial and back page.
 
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