sadmanbarty
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Then there is hope yet - true narcissists are immune to embarrassment.
But we're good at feigning it.
Well if I'm not a narcissist, I guess I'm just plain old stoopid.
By the way, enjoyed your music.
Then there is hope yet - true narcissists are immune to embarrassment.
The internet, of course, has blurred the line between public and private identities in general, and this effect has certainly been felt in hip-hop, which in the past few years has seen the cult ascendancy of “bedroom” producers and rappers like Lil B, Main Attrakionz and Clams Casino, who have seen their homespun, personal and eccentric styles reach a wider audience, particularly in the hip, indie-friendly online press, which naturally prizes their off-kilter, experimental, sometimes contrary takes on “straighter” mainstream rap. This “bedroom” rap music isn’t outgoing, intended for parties and clubs; if anything its ”ingoing” – expressive of an isolated inwardness that has led its makers along wayward lines, far from the free-ways rappers like Ross drive their musical Maybachs down.
Woops. My narcissism never ceases to embarrass me.
I don’t really know anything about this scene. It seems to be what they play at some LGBT parties in the States. I don’t know if it’s a localized scene or if it’s across the country (or international for that matter).
After a bit more soundclouding, I'm getting the impression that this stuff is localised; hailing from the trans clubbing scene in Oakland.
I've had a few gos at pinning down the characteristics of Internet music here. Can't remember what threads. It's something I like speculating about, diffuse, airy speculation
is yung lean an internetty sort of rapper?
By the beginning of 2011 Rocky had a batch of songs that were ready to go. Here again Yams had a plan. Since April 2010 he’d been running a Tumblr — the title is unprintable — which had become one of the most reliable hip-hop tastemaking sites on the Internet, trafficking in obscure gangster rap, scans from old hip-hop magazines, rare photos and all manner of insider jokes. It had a devoted following — it was historical, attitudinal and an alluring blend of street knowledge and nerd knowledge. “That’s what made” his Tumblr “special,” Yams said. “I really mixed both.”
The Tumblr was entertainment, a map of modern hip-hop taste, and, for Yams, also a strategic gambit, “a setup.” Using Tumblr, a blogging platform that allows easy sharing of content, was a conscious choice: “It’s like advertisement.” He was building a reputation as an online tastemaker, spotlighting up-and-coming artists and advocating for a taste level that would be receptive to Rocky’s sound when it was unleashed. “I kept my whole affiliation separate,” Yams said. “I was writing about Rocky like I ain’t know him.”
In April 2011 he posted “Purple Swag,” Rocky’s breakthrough song, a homage to Houston’s chopped-and-screwed music, to which Yams had heavily exposed Rocky. Within months Yams had gotten what he needed from the Internet: Rocky signed a major label contract and a distribution deal for ASAP Worldwide.
That success was a validation not just of Rocky’s skill, but also of Yams’s vision and his ability to infuse it both into Rocky’s music and also into the ears of hundreds of thousands of fans, all without playing so much as a note of music. Yams had built the rapper, and also the audience. All that was left was to convince the mainstream.
the internet is full of people who like this type of music. I guess you can almost return to this idea of 'weirdos' making music for 'weirdos', and the internet connecting outsiders more than they ever have been before.