i thought that article was pretty on point for the most part. not as flawed or silly as that other one from a year or so ago that was in the saturday guardian magazine - more balanced and fair.
would have liked it to maybe reiterate the fact that trying to make crappy blatant crossover tracks just cos there isnt enough underground support in place isnt the best idea either lol, or that with music in general in a bit of a strange place w/r/t downloading/falling sales/less money etc, black music artists def arent going to be much better off, but all in all, it was a good read.
but it would be nice to actually have maybe a bit more coverage on less commercial black music artists in a paper like the guardian from time to time. considering they feature quite a lot of rock artists who arent at the top of the charts, i dont know why they only feature black artists who are commercially succesful.
agreed about grime sets vs recorded output. im not as biased in favour of the former as i used to be, but yeah, its still obvious thats always been where its at, despite some good mix cds like freedom of speech and dozens of great grime records. shame about the direction dizzee and wiley are going in (although i still like rolex a lot) but probably inevitable really. at least we have sets like this to remember them by ; )
