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    Taliban in pop

    yeah ive sort of taken taliban to signify a kind of ruffness- AKs, trim "i will damage man", vybz cartel, breeze. i reckon this is an interesting use of the stories about the war in afghanistan on the news, claiming enemy status for yrself. just shows how the news runs like a story, goodies and...
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    Taliban in pop

    Right Brothers 'France - WRONG' didnt know about those guys- just TOO much. summat scary. 'somewhere in baghdad'?! writen on behalf of an anonymous iraqi woman! the most vague song ever - 'her husbands been missing snce 2001/ cos hed spoken out about something saddam had done' thanks a...
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    (the inevitable dumb) BEST OF '06 (thread)

    loads o stuff i reckon... timbaland wrecking it again, especially... nelly f 'promiscuous girl' JT 'my love' other great singles... cassie 'me n u' movado 'wha dem a say' baby cham 'ghetto story' slix's no base riddim beyonce one about 'to the left' big on the train then plus... the new...
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    Taliban in pop

    how does news get into pop? - im doing some work on this and wondered if anyone else had been keeping track of taliban references or could think of any Dipset- 'my dipset taliban/ we are not a crew/ more like amovement' (Taliban) Trim Young Dot - 'taliban' Nuff dancehall tracks talking about...
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    Racism in the US

    "community" is a well dodgy word. obviously such wordchoices can't be neutral but "community" certainly has negative, paternalistic connotations. In the British press (according to the Bank of English a corpus of written and spoken english), the TOP TEN adjectives that come bfore "community"...
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    questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

    Sidewinder still happens at Creation in Leicester- the last couple of bank holiday weekends. Last one was old skool special - had Slimzee, Heartless...
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    Grime-where did it all go wrong?

    Hi mostly re: what sizzle's saying I reckon some breakcore type sampling is somehow sort of aspiring to a contextless music, using elements that are supposed to be identified as 'black' while the artist who makes it somehow sidesteps such categorisations and tries to construct a sort of...
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    "Devil Mixes"

    there's a beatless mix of 'r u really from the ends' i think by jammer. i can't remember what he calls it - maybe sellasie I mix or summat.
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    caipirinha grime mix

    tracklist: 1. low deep catz + lady sovereign chching accapella 2. dizzee trapped 3. jon e cash bitch 4. faction g i got dat 5. wiley on waifa 's grime 6. lethal b pow 7. loefah twisup (youngsta/task vip) 8. ruff sqwad tings in boots (big seac mix) 9. kano boys luv girls 10...
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    Name that Grime Tune!

    Could also be dj mondie straight rmx with shizzle, fresh and napper: alot of the same bars as on the cha vocal. just thinking cos straight's got loads of other versions but i think thats the only cha vocal(?)
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