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I think my main complaint is that he's such a philosophical idealist when it comes to music. Hip hop begins in the ashes of Keynesianism, and served as a kind of "black CNN" throughout all the shockwaves neoliberalism sent through the black community -- the war on drugs, affirmative action/rise...

agreed

Several of acts behind the bigger songs have been picked up by major labels... New Boyz ("You're a Jerk") have an album out on CD, dunno about vinyl -- promos probably end up in used bins here in the states.

Article in the Sunday Times on Jerkin': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/fashion/22jerking.html?ref=fashion Doesn't go too deep, unfortunately. But it's another opportunity for that "it's like gangsta never happened" narrative for new hip hop (didn't they say this about Missy/Timbo in the...

He's a rapper who was in the hyphy group The Pack. And now is deep into the bloggerati scene apparently, working that internet sensation angle. He gets written up at (and he comments on) Cocaine Blunts. And he has a book! http://www.basedworld.com/?p=1043 From the scattered tracks and...

“Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.” - Adorno & Horkheimer "If I had read The Dialectic of Enlightenment earlier, it would have saved me a lot of useful time." - Michel Foucault

This might be of interest to some in this very fraught discussion: Horkheimer - Notes on Science and Crisis

Though a lot of the songs connect the fashion to white people... "Look so fresh in my white girl clothes," calling out brands like Abercrombie that have taken flak for their lily-white marketing campaigns... Reverse exoticism, love it. Not unlike some of the recent dirty south nods to whiteboy...

So maybe 90s baby phenomenon?

Think this is just a threat to make the insurance companies back off and work with reform... The insurance companies have been really inept lately though, I'm actually thinking there might be some kind of public option included, as watered-down as it inevitably will be. Still not cut and dry...

Great point, didn't think about that, though Detroit was a mistranslation of imported records and fashion mags. The new stuff seems to be a result of more face-to-face interaction, possibly through gentrification (but also internet removing spatiality from subcultures) -- why else are they...

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Cool, I used to live in HP and DJed at WHPK for a couple years. I think some of these footwork battles are at community centers on the West Side... davequam.blogspot.com has been following this a bit, might be a resource. I used to get overpriced mixtapes at the Bassment on Division & Ashland...

Nice one. I like his track "Fuck Yo Favorite DJ"... need to be more tracks on that theme!

I think the prevalence of new age beliefs, religion, creationism, conspiracy theories about Obama (people see his birth certificate and still DO NOT BELIEVE), etc. offers a rejoinder to this. Something like 75% of Americans believe in angels. Consumerism is underpinned by irrationality, that...

Yes, thanks for the links!

Cheers! Woebot's donation plea and some nice comments from Zhao on my blog came at a time when I've felt socially unsatisfied, so here I am, just in time to download some great tracks from this thread.

I recently had a strange experience of meeting a new group of colleagues, most around my age (late twenties-early thirties). Started off the typical awkward introductions, people tentatively feeling each other out, etc... After a couple days everyone had facebook friended each other and there...

Pretty sure DJ Slugo's Godzilla Track is the forerunner to juke, both with its style of sample chopping (esp. with a lot of the orchestral samples in some of this new stuff), and with the skittering drum fills. (video has nothing to do with the track) The newer stuff (much of which is quite...

Related to Western bourgeois conception of the individual perhaps? The "genius myth" is a major pillar of holding up the idea of the autonomous subject removed from history, economy, culture, etc. The nature of the posts in this thread seem to support it: those who want to ascribe superior...