From KaisrSolze Sent Tue, Feb 24th 1998, 11:25
From KaisrSolze Sent Tue, Feb 24th 1998, 11:25
>This leads me to a question: are hip-hop fans (not the >critics) receptive to the weirder stuff like Dr. Octagon, Sir Menelik and >the like? Some of this stuff is brilliant and it would be ashamed to have it >die from lack of support. That depends what you mean by receptive. There's the Puffy scene, then there's the non-MTV "underground" scene. I was in Fat Beats, one of the best hiphop stores in NYC, and the only stuff in there that would get play on MTV is some old skool, WU Tang, and Jeru (and that Uptown song). They carry lots of stuff on Rawkus and elsewhere, and they move A LOT of records, but this is NY, so... I'm pretty sure that good underground hiphop does about as well as a good IDM album that gets some good reviews... Interesting thing is, well- reviewed underground hiphop will often sell in stores that usually have nothing to do with rap, albeit in the "electronic" section. Think how many people on this list talk about the Piklz, etc. Sam