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Logan, I see how you're pissed and it's true that people spend their money perhaps unwisely on weed, nikes, phones etc. but I think you may be going a bit far with it. You gotta remember that dressing flashy is classic behavior for people without a lot of dough or options. In fact, the...

Yeah that's the main important ingredient Hyphy is bringing back. FUN. Any music that's all about going dumb gets my seal of approval. And that fried chicken song is crazy. It seems quite likely that it could be a parody designed to force this kind of discussion.

That whole no homo thing is super gay. I know a lot of people don't wanna hear this but I'd say there's a very very high chance that Cam (and maybe other dips) are batty riders. Check the repeated references to anal rape (male or female), blow job songs, making it cool for NY thugs to wear...

Yeah I've seen R+S once and they dropped basically all Wackies roots tunes and nothing of there own, which was weird and not that exciting. I would much prefer to hear them play all their 10"s back to back, but seems their not trying to do that. Scion on the other hand, which is NOT the two...

I said this on RWD but I'll say it here too. Everyone DL that War Report pack Logan put up above (see 'freeness, again'). It's an 80 MB download that is totally worth it purely for Wiley's final apocalyptic fatality killing blow 6 minute dub for The Movement. He's angry, focused and generally...

I'd just like to chime in and say I'm enjoying this as well. Although I don't really have a theory background I do consider myself to be a thinker and a 'writer' in the loosest possible terms, and that the music making I do is my form of writing about (for lack of a better word) music. That's...

NYC is fucked, but England is just as fucked. Just hold the wrong passport and they'll do everything the people in New York do to non-US pass holders. Basically any airport is fucked if your passport or skin are not the right color. Fuck the home office, US INS and everyone like them. Bunch...

Tunnel Vision 1 and 2 are great. I think he could have made one crazy album out of the two of them, but I enjoy all the new material anyway. I'm surprised to say that actually in a lot of places Wiley's flows are better than the beats, which sound a bit rushed here and there, minimal but...

One thing I'd like to warn you about Eric, before you go further into the den of thorns of arguing about hiphop with PD, is that he is an MC. MC's are basically required to un-questioningly and un-bendingly defend their region, style, canonical works etc, to the death, in any verbal jousting...

I think it's an interesting change. It's acknowledging that everyone is sort of competing with free file sharing, I'll be watching closely, lets see if they can make it work.

I think, since it's already happening now, the next thing will be an explosion of musically uneducated people who previously would not be able to produce and distribute but now can because of cheap PCs, software and broadband connections. I think we're basically already in the fruity loops...

re: bumbaclot badman, tune is overly stiff, enjoying it very much. and, Chronik's Blaze More Dan U mixCD is fucking SHOWER. I know that Chronik is not the deepest skippy-flow-mc-guy, but he overly makes up for it in vehement suck-your-mum-I-will-shoot-out-your-bone-marrow conviction. I'm...

Busy Signal is FIYAH! Not Going Down, Step Out and basically everything I've heard. Singing, rapping, killing it. Really feeling him.

I liked endtroducing and I'm not bothered if other people do too. This board can get way too underground-for-underground's-sake sometimes. And that Shadow with Turf Talk and Keak is STIFF.

droplets of niceness, thanks to the readers and understanders. to clarify, I'm aiming mostly at the internet soldiers here. The dismissive attitude people put on when describing unfashionable (usually recently popular) sounds they don't want near their precious scene just rubs me the wrong...

Ghislain's nights are full on party vibes, he plays with two CD decks, not mixing and playing rap, reggae, techno, grime, african dance beats, basically absolutely whatever and the people eat it up and dance like crazy. Really fun night, I had a great time there last winter when I played...

Slothrop, seems to me the only difference between the two approaches you describe is what you call the finished product. If I am an IDM producer and make a dubstep tune, who's to say what genre it fits in? The people who buy it and play it will decide. If it gets played in dubstep sets, than...

bruno has the best advice by far. Seriously though, it's about creating an impression of something happening that people can either get behind or miss out on. Sending out demos in a vacuum will not do much, I don't know anyone who's gotten a deal that way. The advice about travelling and...

a good friend who I grew up with is a skinhead oi fan, although not a racist, he was visiting me in berlin recently for the world cup and asked to hear what I'd been working on lately. I played him some of my grime stuff as well as a few things from other artists and he really liked it and...

normal cheapo ones work ok as well, usually I carry these around with me. I generally think I can 'hear' when the music is too loud and then draw for these, or if need be some tissue paper. Or just get further away from the sound. One piece of advice: don't let people yell in your ear in...