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even Ethiopian Nuns love the pianist.

I used to live there. I know John, well kinda. We've traded records in the past & I used to know some of the people who helped run his main club night. The Hellfire dudes I only really know from the internet, but I used to occasionally volunteer at the Cube bitd, I think they were just...

Here’s the archive of my VGM radio show, Dream Console E02. This episode focuses mainly on TurboGrafx-16 & PC-98 tracks, so expect an hour of funky Japanese synth pop goodness. Tune in to noodsradio.com every 4th Tuesday of the month @midnight GMT, for more of the best VGM selections...

I’ll be playing more VGM on noodsradio.com tonight at midnight GMT (7pm EST 4pm PST) This show focuses mainly on PC98 & TurboGrafx/PC Engine titles. If you like the sound of VGM heavy with smooth jams and CityPop like synth pop, this is the show for you! All you need -...

Rock was talking more specifically about Lil Jon rapping about sweat dripping from his balls. Skeet skeet. There's an old interview with Fatlip from Pharcyde talking about how he'd listen to Wu Tang and be amazed at how they were simultaneously managing a rap career and all their drug...

I'm not saying there isn’t truth in this, but is it really all that sinister? Or is that what KRS1 is really about? When Chris Rock said in his set that it's now impossible to intellectually defend rap music because of the shameful level lyrical content had dropped to. Is he not echoing...

Sure, but the historical context is completely different. In 94 what Common says is somewhat relevant to hip hop (but even then he was an outlier). In the mid late 00s it isn't so cromulent. Back in 88 when De La Soul, ATCQ etc came out talking about stuff like positivity & Afrocentricity...

So, is a rapper proclaiming themselves 'real hip hop' in 94, the same as a rapper doing so in the late 00s?

Well after the Natives Tongues (& similar) formed and started pushing their personal vision of what hip hop could or later should be or sound like. By 96 they'd been releasing music for nearly a decade. The whole 'real hip hop' thing is a narrative that was pushed by diehards in the 00s trying...

The whole Native Tongues thing was always to set themselves apart from this side of hip hop though. They'd been that way since the late 80s. The whole 'real hip hop' thing wasn't really a defined thing until a decade or so later. Maybe looking back through the prism of history it's easy to give...

Viewing hip hop or rap through such prisms is the problem. You can't talk about concepts formed in the era of Public Enemy & Native Tongues like they belonged to the imitators of the 00s and their salty fanbase. It's completely illogical to dismisses the entire eras of 80s & 90s hip hop...

"real" was a term that was thrown around by everybody though. nobody wants to a be 'fake ass rapper'. To quote CrowleyHead "a lot of these lines are imaginary". I still don't understand which artist you believe were consciously releasing 'real hip hop tm'

I remember when i was djing in a bar once, i was playing a mixture stuff but currently some 80s boogie iirc, some pasty kid with long hair came up to me and started chatting shit or asking for something to be played, I kindly asked him to let me do my job, his parting response was "stop playing...

I'm simply asking what the people who are using the term in this thread define it as.

wtf is 'real hip hop'??

I don't think that's true, the beast that Trip Hop became is not really a reflection on where it originated, plus there's too little rapping in Trip Hop. Acts like Massive Attack come from the lineage of UK Street Soul, UK lovers rock, soul weekenders, raves & rare groove parties; in much the...