Recent content by Dusko

Of the people you're describing, I wonder how many are as outraged by grimey gun-talk and homophobic lyrics as they are by chaps like Ted Nugent? I'm guessing they don't blame 'root causes' for the latter :) I think you nailed it there. I know far too many people who view the injection of...

Well looks like I missed the party being off yesterday, but here's my tuppence anyhow. You're right - I wasn't thinking of people like MC Tunes, Mikee B or Ya Kid K as rappers, more just MCs. I guess that fits with mms's: Apart from the NY examples you state (and I'd also forgotten the JBs...

Quite. Man cannot live on Geto Boyz alone.

Wasn't Doug Lazy responsible for "Let it Roll, Get Bold" or some such? And when did rap and dance music get friendly after that? When the Prodigy mixed up Method Man? Apart from the Chems and Justin Warfield I can't remember much interaction between either camp.

Reckon you're wrong on that one - most of the hip-hop heads I grew up with loved the first two Tribe albums. But you got me thinking. Top 5 hip-hop artists that the "student who's not into hip-hop" had albums by (and I may be showing my age here): 1) Cypress Hill (only the second album mind...

Good to see someone mention The Goats - crazy looking cover to their first album. Not sure if anyone mentioned The Pharcyde's first LP, Brand Nubian's "Brand Nubian" or KMD's "Black Bastards" - I still listen to the latter one today. Some of the rapping sounds a bit clumsy by today's...