This was my work bench today. Told my dad he better fucking pay me for coming down and reroofing their fucking house. Motherfucker owes me big on this one.
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Consider the way that music—notably, in America, jazz and hip-hop—developed both distinct regional flavours as well as an overarching hybrid style. Some may prefer, say, New Orleans jazz to the less regional schools of bebop or free jazz, but nobody would seriously argue for the superiority of one over the other. It is comforting to believe in the purity of isolation, and to believe that good barbecue exists only in a remote tarpaper shack, or in obscure blues clubs in Memphis, but it is a fiction. Barbecue, like jazz, develops from conversation, from talking and listening, from eating and thinking.
Barbecue and American culture: Fire in the hole | The Economist (via desnoise)
Mmmm…I think he’s off in the “overarching hybrid style” aspect as it applies to “hip hop,” and the fact that people interested in this music do argue regularly (and vehemently) over the superiority of one artist, record, track, etc., over another. (See, i.e., “true school” types and most blawg commentors.)
But agree that hip hop develops from conversation, talking and listening. Just not sure that’s by people on the Internet.
-SM
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All I know is that I’m excited to read anything about barbecue and hiphop, even if it’s really about jazz
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only one of these objects belongs to me
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They’ve got their little categories, like ‘conscious’ and ‘gangsta’. It used to be a thing where hip-hop was all together. Fresh Prince would be on tour with N.W.A. It wasn’t like, ‘You have got to like me in order for me to like you.’ That’s just some more white folks trying to think that all niggas are alike, and now it’s expanded. It used to be one type of nigga; now it’s two. There is so much more dimension to who we are. A monolith is a monolith, even if there’s two monoliths to choose from. I ain’t mad at Snoop. I’m not mad at Master P. I ain’t mad at the Hot Boys. I’m mad when that’s all I see. I would be mad if I looked up and all I saw on TV was me or Common or The Roots, because I know that ain’t the whole deal. The real joy is when you can kick it with everyone. That’s what hip-hop is all about. … They keep trying to slip the ‘conscious rapper’ thing on me. I come from Roosevelt Projects, man. The ghetto. I drank the same sugar water, ate hard candy. And they try to get me because I’m supposed to be more articulate, I’m supposed to be not like the other Negroes, to get me to say something against my brothers. I’m not going out like that, man.
Mos Def on being called a “conscious rapper” (stolen from wiki)
Regardless of my opinion on mos sef’s music this is some realtalk
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I suspect a lot of you just accidentally left this off of your year-end lists (even though it came out in 2009)? It couldn’t have been intentional.
Dude! Never saw this but this is dope and once again proves telegraph is way cooler than haight
(Source: http://willystaley.tumblr.com/)
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Big K.R.I.T. f/ Curren$y & Killa Kyleon – “Moon & Stars (Remix)” (Def Jam, 2010)
New rap video posted without commentary.
This is one of the better songs on the KRIT album for sure — I’m glad after “Country Shit” he’s stuck with the better joints as singles — and this remix is an even further improvement. Kyleon just destroys this.
I’m in an airport bar drinking and watching tumblr videos. This video is dope and just proves how two different styles can flip a beat, from krit’s drawn out stresses to kyleon’s rapid delivery that only slows down to stress the occasional vowel has he hammers around the bend into the next line. Dude is one of the best in Houston and it’s a crime that his album has yet to be released, stop letting slim thug hold you back man.
Currency tho is the placebo in this song, just there to see if your paying attention or still nodding to boring raps. I am not a believer in dude, he average all the time
I still love Curren$y, but on this hes definitely a placeholder. But have you heard him spitting on “Daze of Thunder” over that Rick Ross instrumental?? essential listening
Pretty sure that’s a no. I don’t even know what Rick Ross song you’re talking about.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Big K.R.I.T. f/ Curren$y & Killa Kyleon – “Moon & Stars (Remix)” (Def Jam, 2010)
New rap video posted without commentary.
This is one of the better songs on the KRIT album for sure — I’m glad after “Country Shit” he’s stuck with the better joints as singles — and this remix is an even further improvement. Kyleon just destroys this.
I’m in an airport bar drinking and watching tumblr videos. This video is dope and just proves how two different styles can flip a beat, from krit’s drawn out stresses to kyleon’s rapid delivery that only slows down to stress the occasional vowel as he hammers around the bend into the next line. Dude is one of the best in Houston and it’s a crime that his album has yet to be released, stop letting slim thug hold you back man.
Currency tho is the placebo in this song, just there to see if your paying attention or still nodding to boring raps. I am not a believer in dude, he average all the time
Also when compared to the Gibbs & Quinn song of a similar vibe and idea this song just bodies that shit, Krit is like a young devin with a heavy pimp c/TI influence and that’s a good thing
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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yes I have lots of flying coffin gear. I’m a sucker for upside down crosses I guess. I did give a FC beanie to sweatpants so yeah I didn’t keep all of it. worst part is they got a holiday sale going right now and I want to cop but I know my wife already thinks I’m retarded with this shit.
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Because them shitty dj’s you listen to don’t play good rap songs. This shit has been in a heavy rotation lately. The pimp sample just makes this joint. How many raunchy safe sex rap songs are there anyways?