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"The maximum penalty for carrying pepper spray is 10 years in prison. Dizzee shot to fame with his first album, Boy In Da Corner, which was full of tracks about gun crime, gangs and drugs." wtf

I agree!

hahahaha i'm sorry this is just...wow. Considering the last couple days w/ 50 and Game etc. this seems like such a bizarre "Who cares?" incident. Is it really illegal to possess pepper spray in the UK?!

http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1103528527.shtml Thats the piece i was talking about earlier.

bpdave OTM, esp. with regard to the formation of yr own in-group slang etc....my friends do this as well... While I think i agree w/ what dominic says in practice for the most part - i don't go around trying to imitate slang wholesale because i've heard on BET or something - i think the...

I guess i'm not sure that clarity neccessarily is impeded by not following "proper english rules," so finding that fine line between knowing how to communicate ideas clearly while not neccessarily conforming to the dominant culture's idea of 'proper english' is the idea behind this. "blacK"...

This underground vs. mainstream talk sounds so weird to me, like, that debate within hip-hop is really old at this point...i suppose hip-hop's ability to move the mainstream to it rather than vice versa is responsible for this.

Yeah thats kind of what i was wondering, where the debate is coming from here.... i know the huge debate about "ebonics" here in the states was a huge deal, and i never really understood 1. how they could define such a thing - doesn't it imply a sort of monolithic black community, and...

You could actually ask the Ying Yang twins a lot of the questions we're asking wrt grime...a few years back, the south was totally ignored by hot 97 and the press and MTV, aside from the stuff cash money was throwing down - so how did they know to strike when the iron is hot, what did they do to...

Honestly, I think what appeals to kids even more is, "does this bang?" the fwd riddim has a much better chance of blowing up here than anything on either Dizzee record, because those are ALBUMS full of life expeirences blah blah blah and yes it bangs, but not in the context of club records...

The best way for grime to make it happen over here in the states is networking. It sounds like some sort of motivational speech but its true - get on some remixes, make friends with the right DJs, RELEASE YOUR SINGLES over here for club DJs to have access to, copy how dancehall stars did here...

Well, yeah, the other example was my friend from the first post; he does it for ease of comunication, as a way to move in and out of social circles, i presume - but because he is black, it seems like fewer white people notice it than when he does it - he always sounds like himself, i presume...

Oh I don't think its a bad thing at all, i'm interested in the complexities of it. I think it might be more compliated in the states, i donno, whats so baffling about issues of infiltration/appropriation? I know plenty of cats at school who'll just start flipping into "whats up, dun" talk when...

I donno i dont have much else to say! I think its an interesting subject.

Bottle Rocket is really good, although its not the kind of movie you'd watch and think "this guy is gonna make some great films." It is what it is, a cool and pretty damn funny movie. But yeah, rushmore's where he really took off, and I love Royal T's nearly as much.

Isn't the diff basically in the name i.e. baltimore BREAKS, like, it uses BREAKBEATS? Maybe I just dont know my ghettotech well enough. And percolator is def chicago! I have the 12" sitting right here in front of me. Anyway, this is the site you want for b-more breaks...

(I like madlib a lot but seriously Pimp C is where its at right now.) ;)

That makes more sense, the drums weren't very primo-ish and it wasn't quite as tight as his later stuff.

Rollie P posted one track and was all "this beat is amazing." I was not feelin it. I definitely want to hear the rest of the album, though.

Also if you check out more of the album, "Angel" is an amazing track - serg was gonna put it up but decided 3 was enough. I think I would have kept it and cut one of the others.