The music journalism hall of shame thread
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fair enough, though you could argue that you could boil down a hell of a lot of grime lyrics to "(please) look (at me)!"
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
(from internet)
Actually "aks" comes from middle English and "ask" is modern English. Consider that the majority of slave plantations were owned by Americans with British roots and that explains it. "aks" was still widely used in England during the European/American slave trade period. It is called a metathesis, but it metathesized from "aks" to "ask", not vice-versa. To take it back to Old English, "ascian" and "axian/acsian" were both in use.
Other metathesized words in English* asteriks - asterisk* brid - bird* calavry - cavalry* comftable - comfortable* foiladge - foliage* intorduce - introduce* intergal - integral* revelant - relevant
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
'Aks' still has some currency among white people in the West Country. Another is 'waps' for 'wasp'.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Also you could boil down a hell of a lot of Wurzels lyrics to "(hello moi luvver) look (at me)!"
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Apparently a friend of a friend knows the Wurzels and ended up 'backstage' with them at Glastonbury years ago, doing lines off the rear wheel arch of their tractor. o_0
juanroberto
Reprezenting the Latinos
juanroberto
Reprezenting the Latinos
Anyone who makes it past the 3 minute mark is a trooper. It's the equivalent of 3 hours of a Haswell and Hecker live set
juanroberto
Reprezenting the Latinos
hands up who wants to see Blackdown's Trim book
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
I'd like to see him write one about flirta d's with a foreword by kode9
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
that piece on road rap is confused. none of the guys in the video are 'relative unknowns' - if anything they're relatively well known (relative to how well known anyone in uk rap is)
it's not grime, and the constant attempt to draw links between the two genres is a failed conceit. most grime mcs made more hip hop tunes than they did grime, it was a radio genre. then when it went off the radio, rap emerged as the sole outlet. grime disappeared, 'road' rap didn't appear. "road rap is absorbing grime’s road energy into hip-hop’s traditions" nah grime absorbed hip hops street element. i.e. it's not a part of the any continuum other than british youth having liked hip hop for two decades now. it's not rave music.
the suggestions at the end are poor.
you don't seem to have a real interest in the genre other than a tangential desire to link it to a wider theory/make it somewhat derivative of genres you do like. shouldn't have written about it.
it's not grime, and the constant attempt to draw links between the two genres is a failed conceit. most grime mcs made more hip hop tunes than they did grime, it was a radio genre. then when it went off the radio, rap emerged as the sole outlet. grime disappeared, 'road' rap didn't appear. "road rap is absorbing grime’s road energy into hip-hop’s traditions" nah grime absorbed hip hops street element. i.e. it's not a part of the any continuum other than british youth having liked hip hop for two decades now. it's not rave music.
the suggestions at the end are poor.
you don't seem to have a real interest in the genre other than a tangential desire to link it to a wider theory/make it somewhat derivative of genres you do like. shouldn't have written about it.
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
lol
Leo
Well-known member
everyone is entitled to their opinion, just thought that one could have been expressed a little differently.
Patrick Swayze
I'm trying to shut up
fair enough I just signed up here so don't really know the conventions/unwritten rules. that said I thought what I said was quite restrained, I often get banned from forums for being too inflammatory when making a point.
plus I (at least used to) quite like uk rap and felt like blackdown's piece was slightly dishonest in its presentation, but had impressed people on here. only skimmed the thread. nothing personal or whatever.
SecondLine
Well-known member
Neil Kulkarni on a new US 90s:
http://thequietus.com/articles/08709-neil-kulkarni-a-new-nineties-us-edition-intro
who was it on here said something about music journalists not staging critical interventions in a cultural war any more? Reminded me of that, anyway
http://thequietus.com/articles/08709-neil-kulkarni-a-new-nineties-us-edition-intro
who was it on here said something about music journalists not staging critical interventions in a cultural war any more? Reminded me of that, anyway