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02/08/2020 · 2:08 pm

Rap To Which I Do Listen

There’s an itch that rap music scratches that no other kind of music does. For this reason, I have a longstanding love-hate relationship with the genre. But the fact remains; I always come back to it. Once I realized I was listening to it alone, when there was no one around to impress, I figured I enjoyed the form enough to jabber about it sincerely.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 2020, A Tribe Called Quest, Atlanta, Chubb Rock, Cold 187um, Cut Chemist, Cypress Hill, Delicious Vinyl, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Eric B. & Rakim, Geto Boys, Gravediggaz, hip hop, James Brown, Kokane, Kristen Wilson, KRS-One, Ludacris, Main Source, Masta Ace, MC Ren, Mr. Lif, music, Outkast, Public Enemy, rap, Scarface, Snoop Doggy Dogg, The Pharcyde, Three 6 Mafia, underground

07/02/2018 · 11:03 pm

Eminem

Hey- you know what? There’s no need to pretend that Marshall Mathers III isn’t lucky garbage anymore. None.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2000s, 2012, Bands I Useta Like, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, comic, corporate crap, Curtis Hanson, D.O.C., Dido, Disney, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Fred Durst, gangsta rap, Leave It To Beaver, music, parental advisory labels, rap, Rolling Stone, sellouts, Snoop Doggy Dogg, strips, white rap, whores

04/20/2017 · 7:30 pm

I Never Liked You: 2 Live Crew

Can I let you in on a little secret?

Nobody actually likes 2 Live Crew. They stank. They were the kind of fraud that today, would be secretly sponsored by George “Fuck Everything Good” Soros. 2 Live Crew was just garbage.

I don’t know what a “puxxy” is, but I bet if you popped one, it would make a bad smell.

It was humiliating to stock, sell or even see 2 Live Crew albums in the record store. As soon as a customer brought one to the counter, you knew there would be a problem. The customer was always under 18, and thus forbidden to purchase the music; no one older than 18 cared about it. If they enjoyed rap, they had already moved on to something actually good.

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Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 1994, 2 Live Crew, Andrew Dice Clay, Bling Bling, censorship, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, fake rap, Full Metal Jacket, hip hop, Luther Campbell, Miami, N.W.A., Outkast, parental advisory labels, PMRC, rap, sellouts, Snoop Doggy Dogg, whores

01/03/2016 · 12:00 am

The Ur-Sample

Sampling in hip-hop is important because it can send you backward in time, when it’s done well. It’s crate-digging shared on wax. The best samples offer a window into the mind of the producer, and a peek at the most obscure records in their vault. Since legally all sources must be credited, you can check the liners and draw up a shopping list. The torch of the turntable is carried on.

And oftentimes, forgotten geniuses of the past get their due.

There’s an unspoken rule in hip-hop culture; it’s based in appropriation, so it’s all about forging something fresh out of a juxtaposition of elements. A sample is looped over a beat by a DJ, before the MC begins to rap. The right samples are crucial; they provide the hook of tonal immortality.

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The handsome gent in the photo above is David McCallum. He is the most widely-heard yet unknown dude in rap music.