From martin wood Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 16:39
From martin wood Sent Thu, May 27th 1999, 16:39
jeezus...Mace and TLC dont represent hip-hop....theyre r'n'b acts... and british hip-hop is amazing....funky DL, Blak Twang...and some other names i dont know coz i forget to ask all represent the u.k. i dont think that british hip-hop will ever be that well known stateside because of the saturation of rap acts in the u.s. alt rock = m.o.r. for 'disaffected' youth Tomas Jirku wrote: > > alt-rock. IMO that's a great thing, because no matter how bad pop hip-hop > > gets, at least you can dance to it, whereas with 3rd Eye Blind, there's no > > recourse except hiding in a corner. > > here in canada, alt-rock is much more prevalent than hiphop. thank god. > i'm much rather listen to Weezer or Pearl Jam than Mace or TLC. i don't > want no "i don't want no scrubs". > > > I ask because it seems like British hip-hop will never get to be > > amazing unless it acquires a mass popularity there. I mean, an artist > > here > > this comment is ridiculous! stylistically, nothing requires mass > popularity to be amazing. you obviously need to look deeper to realize > that all "amazing" genres exist despite and before mass popularity. > maybe you were introduced to techno/IDM by the chemical brothers or > prodigy. > > > or there, sure. But the reason for US hip-hop's continual self- renewal > > is that it has so many fans, and thus so many creators. Same way with > > it is becuase of this that hiphop and techno is so trite and watered > down. > > tomas