From Moonlight Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 22:00
From Moonlight Sent Fri, Jul 16th 1999, 22:00
>i understand that, but remember, we're (at least i'm) not talking about pop >culture in it's entirety, but rather, specifically trip hop, which has >virtually no presence in the ghetto... how often do you hear dj shadow >pumpin' out of a ghetto blaster? WTF? First you're complaining about how shit is watered down for mass consumption, and then you say how the fact that people don't play shodaw out of their boomboxes is evidence that he's watered it down. Fuck no. The big hip hop has usually watered it down. That's how they get big. DJ Shadow is all about keeping hiphop real (or at least trying). Check his production for latyrx among others. And i hear much of the stuff he's produced coming out of the best hip hop soundsystems in Minneapolis. Also, i know lots of hip-hop heads that i've turned on to tricky. Maybe the reason that the original ghetto culture you talk about hasn't embraced trip-hop variants is that it hasn't been marketed to them. While pork artists for example take a hip-hop beat (which is just about everywhere nowadays), their lack of vocals has nothing to do with marketing and making their music accessible to suburbanites. Hello, maybe it's just some people's artistic vision to make non-boring instrumental hip-hop. Maybe they don't want an MC. Maybe they don't want to be political. So what? If you're gonna complain about shit like that, complain about Ma$e, the Fugees, K-ci and Jojo, etc. _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx University of Idaho / Moscow / ID / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "Because success needs killing" TRICKY